{"id":87592,"date":"2016-03-30T10:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=87592"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T08:58:11","slug":"killer-instinct-launches-on-pc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/87592-killer-instinct-launches-on-pc","title":{"rendered":"Killer Instinct launches on PC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox title <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ultra-combo.com\/help\/\" target=\"_blank\">Killer Instinct<\/a> has launched on PCs alongside the Season 3 update for the game.<\/p>\n<p>The game is available to download from the Windows Store for free, although the game does offer various microtransactions.<\/p>\n<p>The multiplayer fighting game has previously been available on the Xbox One, and console players will continue to receive updates as normal. Additionally, cross-play is enabled between Windows 10 devices and the Xbox One, allowing PC gamers to play against Xbox One players.<\/p>\n<p>The release of the title on the Windows Store means that console gamers can log in to the PC client and retain their saves from their Xbox One game, as they are saved to the gaming account.<\/p>\n<p>Killer Instinct&#8217;s payment model relies on microtransactions, which include the purchase of different characters and in-game bundles. The base game is completely free, although gameplay is relatively limited without the purchase of character bundles.<\/p>\n<p>Killer Instinct is available for free download from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/store\/games\/killer-instinct\/9nblggh1z149?tduid=%28d76294d65eb20661c8972f02a68d6ac9%29%28256380%29%282459594%29%28TnL5HPStwNw-tujdfeujjxYFFmbWR7cSvQ%29%28%29\" target=\"_blank\">Windows Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Hacker publishes \u2018Watch Paint Dry\u2019 game on Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87580-hacker-publishes-watch-paint-dry-game-on-steam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Hacker publishes \u2018Watch Paint Dry\u2019 game on Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 15 finalists selected for Video Game Hall of Fame 2016\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/87582-15-finalists-selected-for-video-game-hall-of-fame-2016.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">15 finalists selected for Video Game Hall of Fame 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 insane gaming mice \u2013 SA pricing, details\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/87558-5-insane-gaming-mice-sa-pricing-details.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 insane gaming mice \u2013 SA pricing, details<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The combo-based fighting game for Xbox One has arrived on PC and features cross-play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":87594,"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":[5172,13618,10290,903,6431,15397,143,13009,243],"class_list":["post-87592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-f2p","tag-fighting","tag-killer-instinct","tag-launch","tag-microtransactions","tag-pc","tag-release","tag-windows-10","tag-xbox-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87592","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=87592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}