{"id":543,"date":"2014-09-20T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=543"},"modified":"2014-09-20T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-20T16:26:10","slug":"fall-2014-console-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2014 Console Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was back during E3 that Amazon was having an awesome sale on pre-order games.  They would offer 30% off when you preordered 3 or more games.  I thought, I may as well preorder a bunch and save some money, especially if I intended to pick them up when they were coming out.  I pre-ordered Destiny (PS4), Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare (PS4), Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel (360), Halo Master Chief Collection (XboxOne), and Halo 5 (XboxOne).<\/p>\n<p>I received the first game, Destiny, a day after its release date on Sept 10th.  I was charged $43.95 for the game which is substantially less than I would have paid at retail $69.99 before tax.  So far I have really enjoyed the game and finally have a game that I can play online with friends as everyone I know has the game.  I have to play it a lot right now because the next game in my pre-order, Borderlands, should arrive around October 14. Then after that, I should receive Call of Duty around Nov 4, and then Halo Collection around Nov 11.  It&#8217;s going to be busy times with lots of quality releases coming out for the holiday season this year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was back during E3 that Amazon was having an awesome sale on pre-order games. They would offer 30% off when you preordered 3 or more games. I thought, I may as well preorder a bunch and save some money, especially if I intended to pick them up when they were coming out. I pre-ordered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/?p=543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fall 2014 Console Gaming<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.demyen.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}