{"id":87486,"date":"2016-03-24T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87486"},"modified":"2016-03-24T10:36:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T08:36:49","slug":"the-banner-saga-2-release-date-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/87486-the-banner-saga-2-release-date-announced","title":{"rendered":"The Banner Saga 2 release date announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stoic Studio has <a href=\"http:\/\/steamcommunity.com\/games\/281640\/announcements\/detail\/901091250583187380\" target=\"_blank\">announced <\/a>that The Banner Saga 2 will release on 19 April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The development studio experienced delays last year and was expected to The Banner Saga 2 release in Q1 2016, a goal which they have only barely missed. The game will be available for both OSX and Microsoft Windows at launch.<\/p>\n<p>The Banner Saga 2 will feature improved characters and stories accompanied by a new soundtrack written by Austin Wintory.<\/p>\n<p>The first entry in The Banner Saga series was <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.us.playstation.com\/2015\/12\/16\/the-banner-saga-arrives-on-ps4-january-12th-2016\/\">recently released<\/a> on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and there is no known console release date yet for the second iteration of the franchise.<\/p>\n<p>The Banner Saga 2 is available for <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/281640\" target=\"_blank\">preorder on Steam<\/a>, and buyers will receive a 10% discount if they pre-purchase the game.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Bandai Namco may bring Tekken 7 to PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87480-bandai-namco-may-bring-tekken-7-to-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bandai Namco may bring Tekken 7 to PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 10 Best Survival games of 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87460-10-best-survival-games-of-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">10 Best Survival games of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The greatest easter eggs in recent games\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/87464-the-greatest-easter-eggs-in-recent-games.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The greatest easter eggs in recent games<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stoic has announced a release date for The Banner Saga 2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":87492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17602,1594,15397,2436,11943],"class_list":["post-87486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-banner-saga-2","tag-mac","tag-pc","tag-release-date","tag-stoic-studios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/232"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87500,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87486\/revisions\/87500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}