{"id":94175,"date":"2016-06-07T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=94175"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:09:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T15:09:55","slug":"xcom-2-is-coming-to-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/94175-xcom-2-is-coming-to-consoles","title":{"rendered":"XCOM 2 is coming to consoles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Firaxis has revealed that XCOM 2 will be debuting on consoles later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The game will be available to play for Xbox One and PS4 users on 6 September in North America and <strong>9 September<\/strong> globally.<\/p>\n<p>The port will be handled by new developer &#8220;The Workshop&#8221;, and will remain largely identical to the PC version with the exception of controller changes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The incredible reception of XCOM 2 has been rewarding and humbling for the team, and we\u2019ve known console fans have been clamoring to play the game too,&#8221; said XCOM 2 Creative Director Jake Solomon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As avid console players ourselves, we\u2019re excited to work with The Workshop to bring XCOM 2 to all of our fans.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The PC-version of XCOM 2 originally released in February, receiving\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/pc\/xcom-2\" target=\"_blank\">outstanding\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>reviews despite a number of technical and performance issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You can check out the official announcement trailer below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C6yxP-VMA9E\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Watch this developer play PC games on the PlayStation 4\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/92989-watch-this-developer-play-pc-games-on-the-playstation-4.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Watch this developer play PC games on the PlayStation 4<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/93797-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The incredible overnight industry of backpack PCs\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93803-the-incredible-overnight-industry-of-backpack-pcs.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The incredible overnight industry of backpack PCs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firaxis has revealed that XCOM 2 will be debuting on consoles later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":85813,"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":[11681,4],"tags":[31,1892,1853,19215,10065,1972],"class_list":["post-94175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-firaxis","tag-playstation4","tag-tbs","tag-xbox-one","tag-xcom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94175","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\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94177,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94175\/revisions\/94177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}