{"id":4798,"date":"2016-05-05T11:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T01:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2016-05-05T11:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T01:13:19","slug":"blizzards-overwatch-open-beta-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/blizzards-overwatch-open-beta-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard&#8217;s Overwatch Open Beta begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27131835\/lineup-facebook.jpg\" alt=\"lineup-facebook\" width=\"851\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27131835\/lineup-facebook.jpg 851w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27131835\/lineup-facebook-300x111.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27131835\/lineup-facebook-770x285.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27131835\/lineup-facebook-380x141.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/27131835\/lineup-facebook-800x296.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 851px) 100vw, 851px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Overwatch?src=hash\">#Overwatch<\/a> beta is now open to ALL PS4 users. No PS Plus required. Download now: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EWTjR9Mzlw\">https:\/\/t.co\/EWTjR9Mzlw<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QMNE1nnO4d\">pic.twitter.com\/QMNE1nnO4d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 PlayStationAustralia (@PlayStationAU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PlayStationAU\/status\/728025545443713024\">May 5, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Blizzard&#8217;s entry into the soon to be very crowded online-multiplayer shooter <em>cough<\/em> Lawbreakers, Battleborne <em>cough<\/em> is now available to try out in an all-in open beta.<\/p>\n<p>Hoping lightning will strike twice after Heroes of the Storm reinvigorated the impenetrable MOBA market Overwatch was born out of the ashes of Blizzard&#8217;s failed MMOPRG followup to World of Warcraft; Titan.<\/p>\n<p>The beta is available on PC, PS4 &amp; XB1 starting today, the full release hits stores May 24.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/playoverwatch.com\/en-us\/blog\/20055970\/\">Open Beta Coming to PC, PS4\u2122, and Xbox One &#8211; News &#8211; Overwatch<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"#Overwatch beta is now open to ALL PS4 users. No PS Plus required. Download now: https:\/\/t.co\/EWTjR9Mzlw pic.twitter.com\/QMNE1nnO4d \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}