{"id":90520,"date":"2016-04-26T07:47:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90520"},"modified":"2016-04-26T17:01:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T15:01:18","slug":"lionsgate-is-bringing-over-100-big-budget-movies-to-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/90520-lionsgate-is-bringing-over-100-big-budget-movies-to-steam","title":{"rendered":"Lionsgate is bringing over 100 big-budget movies to Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valve has announced a deal with Lionsgate that will expand its <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/search\/#category1=992&amp;sort_by=Released_DESC&amp;page=1&amp;tags=4700\" target=\"_blank\">movie catalogue<\/a><\/strong> significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The deal will bring over 100 additional big-budget films to the Steam service, including some of Lionsgate&#8217;s biggest franchises.<\/p>\n<p>This means users will soon be able to rent movies such as The Hunger Games, Divergent, and Twilight within the Steam client.<\/p>\n<p>Movies are available on all iterations of the Steam client regardless of platform, and are available as streaming rentals which cannot be downloaded.<\/p>\n<p>Valve has offered films through Steam for a while, these new additions to the service will mark the first big-budget titles to be featured on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see how the addition of big-budget films do on the platform, as previously most movies available on Steam have been game-related documentaries such as <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/245550\/\" target=\"_blank\">Free to Play<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/207080\/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1\" target=\"_blank\">Indie Game: The Movie<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>South African pricing is currently unavailable, although <strong>current movie rentals on Steam range from R25 to R76.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Steam<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Valve could start selling mods (again)\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90423-valve-could-start-selling-mods-again.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Valve could start selling mods (again)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Valve\u2019s new matchmaking is either genius or a serious invasion of your privacy\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90195-valves-new-matchmaking-is-either-genius-or-a-serious-invasion-of-your-privacy.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Valve\u2019s new matchmaking is either genius or a serious invasion of your privacy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Bitcoin payments coming to Steam\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90083-bitcoin-payments-coming-to-steam.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bitcoin payments coming to Steam<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam users will soon be able to rent The Hunger Games, Divergent, Twilight and much more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":232,"featured_media":90524,"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":[9],"tags":[18290,6402,18292,85,15401],"class_list":["post-90520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-lionsgate","tag-movies","tag-rental","tag-steam","tag-streaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90520","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=90520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90526,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90520\/revisions\/90526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}