{"id":93437,"date":"2016-05-30T16:27:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=93437"},"modified":"2016-05-30T16:28:43","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T14:28:43","slug":"games-you-can-play-this-week-murders-and-magic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/93437-games-you-can-play-this-week-murders-and-magic","title":{"rendered":"Games you can play this week \u2014 murders and magic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, May comes to a halting conclusion while June&#8217;s release calendar kicks in, and there is a great mix of experiences and adventures on offer to fans of the action genre.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt &#8211; Blood and Wine<\/h3>\n<p><strong>31 May 2016 (Xbox One, PS4, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Blood and Wine is the second add-on adventure for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a030-hour-plus tale introduces the all-new in-game region of Toussaint, which will take Geralt to a land untainted by war, where an atmosphere of carefree indulgence and knightly ritual masks an ancient, bloody secret.<\/p>\n<p>The expansion also features new characters, new dangerous monsters, new armors, new weapons, and a new Gwent deck of cards. It will also introduce a new gameplay mechanic armor dyeing in addition to so called Mutations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blood and Wine New Region Trailer - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zMSYP1FIffM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Hitman: Episode 3<\/h3>\n<p><strong>31 May 2016 (Xbox One, PS4, PC)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following the highly-enjoyable Paris and Sapienza missions with Episode 1 and 2 respectively, Hitman gets its third downloadable mission this week, set in the Moroccan city of\u00a0Marrakesh.<\/p>\n<p>There will be two featured targets. The initial target will be a private banker named Claus Strandberg while the second one will be General Reza Zaydan. \u00a0Located within the Swedish Consulate, Strandberg will be highly secure.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Zaydan will be accompanied by an elite group of soldiers while attempting to coup up at a provisional headquarters at the centre of the city. These new targets will accelerate the level of challenges to gamers. Additionally, Episode 3\u00a0adds up a wider range of opportunities and challenges.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a new setting for Contracts Mode where players will be able to access Escalation Contracts and Elusive Targets that will take place in the Moroccan city,<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hitman: Episode 3 - Agent 47 in Marrakesh\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eB-JGCnLvSY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">More game releases this week:<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/75670-games-you-can-play-this-week-contract-killing-and-careless-carnage.html\/attachment\/pc-platform-tag-2#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-75676\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-75676\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/PC-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"PC-platform-tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt &#8211; Blood and Wine expansion<br \/>\nHitman &#8211; Episode 3<br \/>\nDead Island Definitive Collection<br \/>\nDangerous Golf<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/60349-games-launching-this-week-2.html\/attachment\/xbox-one-platform-tag#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60361\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60361\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Xbox-One-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"Xbox One platform tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt &#8211; Blood and Wine expansion<br \/>\nHitman &#8211; Episode 3<br \/>\nDead Island Definitive Collection<br \/>\nDangerous Golf<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/60349-games-launching-this-week-2.html\/attachment\/ps4-platform-tag#main\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-60358\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60358\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/PS4-platform-tag.jpg\" alt=\"PS4 platform tag\" width=\"180\" height=\"40\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt &#8211; Blood and Wine expansion<br \/>\nHitman &#8211; Episode 3<br \/>\nDead Island Definitive Collection<br \/>\nDangerous Golf<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Article\u00a0courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Cool new Razer products coming to South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/92875-cool-new-razer-products-coming-to-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Cool new Razer products coming to South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to What you need to do if you want a job in game development in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/91033-what-you-must-do-if-you-want-a-job-in-game-development-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">What you need to do if you want a job in game development in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How VR can be an instrument for social change\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90801-how-vr-can-be-an-instrument-for-social-change.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How VR can be an instrument for social change<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the games hitting store shelves and online outlets this week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":93439,"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":[20],"tags":[31,1607,4552,1966,749,8657,1157],"class_list":["post-93437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-active","tag-dead-island","tag-game-releases","tag-games","tag-hitman","tag-the-witcher-3-wild-hunt","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93441,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93437\/revisions\/93441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}