{"id":229483,"date":"2017-09-18T07:54:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=229483"},"modified":"2017-09-18T07:55:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T05:55:48","slug":"playerunknowns-battlegrounds-breaks-steam-player-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/229483-playerunknowns-battlegrounds-breaks-steam-player-record.html","title":{"rendered":"PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds breaks Steam player record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds has broken the Steam record for\u00a0peak player count.<\/p>\n<p>The game achieved a\u00a0peak player count of\u00a01.34 million, beating titles like Dota 2 and Counster-Strike: Global Offensive.<\/p>\n<p>Dota 2&#8217;s all-time peak is a close second, at 1.29 million.<\/p>\n<p>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds was\u00a0released in Early Access form in March, and is a shooter title combined with a survival element.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229487\" src=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Player\" width=\"622\" height=\"487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player.jpg 622w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player-511x400.jpg 511w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Steam-Player-549x430.jpg 549w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/229257-you-can-play-overwatch-for-free-next-weekend.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">You can play Overwatch for free next weekend<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayerUnknown&#8217;s Battlegrounds has broken a big record on Steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145685,"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_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[46093,3602],"class_list":["post-229483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","tag-playerunknowns-battlegrounds","tag-steam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229489,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229483\/revisions\/229489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}