{"id":89481,"date":"2016-04-15T08:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89481"},"modified":"2016-04-15T08:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:35:11","slug":"doom-is-free-to-play-this-weekend-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89481-doom-is-free-to-play-this-weekend-on-steam","title":{"rendered":"DOOM is Free to Play this weekend on Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been itching to get your hands on Bethesda&#8217;s DOOM remake, now is your chance.<\/p>\n<p>The game is available to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/350470\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>play for free<\/strong><\/a> this weekend, courtesy of Steam and the DOOM Open Beta.<\/p>\n<p>Steam users will be able to participate in the DOOM Open Beta from 15 &#8211; 17 April 2016, after which the Open Beta will end.<\/p>\n<p>The Beta features two maps, Heatwave and Infernal, which will play host to two game modes each &#8211; Team Deathmatch and Warpath.<\/p>\n<p>The DOOM free weekend will showcase never-before-seen weapons, armor sets, taunts and hack modules.<\/p>\n<p>If you can&#8217;t get around to playing DOOM this weekend, you can always take a look at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/88183-hands-on-with-the-doom-multiplayer.html\" target=\"_blank\">our impressions <\/a><\/strong>of the Closed Beta.<\/p>\n<p>Fire up your downloads, it&#8217;s going to be an action-packed weekend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DOOM is set to release on 13 May 2016.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KSZ4tSoumNk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Razer announces Man O\u2019 War wireless gaming headset\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/89471-razer-announces-man-o-war-wireless-gaming-headset.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Razer announces Man O\u2019 War wireless gaming headset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming deals this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89303-awesome-gaming-deals-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming deals this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Tips for the first 20 hours of Dark Souls III\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/89219-tips-for-the-first-20-hours-of-dark-souls-iii.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Tips for the first 20 hours of Dark Souls III<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve been itching to get your hands on Bethesda&#8217;s DOOM remake, now&#8217;s your chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":89483,"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":[3],"tags":[883,4197,8128,15397,85],"class_list":["post-89481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-doom","tag-free","tag-open-beta","tag-pc","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89481","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=89481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89485,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89481\/revisions\/89485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}