{"id":9833,"date":"2011-02-03T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T15:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"homefront-delayed-sa-release-date-tentative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9833-homefront-delayed-sa-release-date-tentative","title":{"rendered":"Homefront delayed; SA release date tentative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THQ CEO Brian Farrell has confirmed a short delay on the release of Homefront, at least in the US region. This news emerged during an investor call earlier today. The game was originally scheduled for the 8 March, but will now launch on 15 March.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this was to avoid sharing a release date with Dragon Age II &ndash; probably not a bad business move.<\/p>\n<p>MyGaming contacted local distributor of THQ products, Ster Kinekor, to see how this news affects the game release in our neck of the woods. A Ster Kinekor representative confirmed that the PAL region launch was previously scheduled for 11 March.<\/p>\n<p>We are now looking at a release date of &ldquo;around the 15th,&rdquo; said Ster Kinekor.<\/p>\n<p>MyGaming&rsquo;s money is on an actual release date of 18 March, a Friday, as this falls in line with the typical South African release date trends.<\/p>\n<p>THQ also recently revealed some interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/9751-Homefront-features-revealed.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Homefront PC features revealed\">PC specific details<\/a> along with system requirements, for those PC gamers warming up their rigs for the near-future, post-peak oil, predictive history FPS.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"Homefront PC features revealed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Eurogamer\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THQ confirms a delay on Homefront\u2019s US release; we have a tentative SA release date<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}