{"id":25178,"date":"2012-10-20T07:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=25178"},"modified":"2012-10-20T07:59:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T21:59:36","slug":"early-kick-off-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=25178","title":{"rendered":"EARLY KICK-OFF BEGINS\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fully playable, single-player Beta version of Football Manager 2013 is now available through pre-order promotion<\/p>\n<p>October 19<sup>th<\/sup> 2012<\/p>\n<p>With immediate effect, fans who have pre-ordered or pre-purchased Football Manager 2013 from a participating retailer can now get their hands on a Beta version of the game\u2026 two weeks ahead of the full release on November 2<sup>nd<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an idea that this pre-order promotion was going to be popular, but nothing prepared us for the wave of enthusiasm that we were hit with when we announced it last month,\u201d says Sports Interactive\u2019s Studio Director Miles Jacobson. \u201cIf you\u2019ve already pre-ordered your copy, then you can start playing the Beta version right now \u2013 and if you haven\u2019t then there\u2019s still time, as this offer will stay good right up until the day of release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The single-player Beta version of Football Manager 13 gives access to most of the forthcoming game\u2019s features, including the all-new Football Manager Classic mode and the short-term Challenges (for more information, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballmanager.com\/features\">www.footballmanager.com\/features<\/a>). Details of participating retailers can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballmanager.com\/preorder\">http:\/\/www.footballmanager.com\/preorder<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Beta version will remain fully functional until Monday, November 5<sup>th<\/sup>, after which it will no longer be playable. However, the player will be able to continue their career without interruption, as the Beta version will be fully compatible with the final release, so none of the player\u2019s progress over the pre-release period will be lost.<\/p>\n<p>Football Manager 2013 will be published by SEGA for Windows PC and Mac on November 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 2012. Further information on the game\u2019s new and enhanced features can be found in a series of video blogs on the official website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.footballmanager.com\/\">www.footballmanager.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully playable, single-player Beta version of Football Manager 2013 is now available through pre-order promotion October 19th 2012 With immediate effect, fans who have pre-ordered or pre-purchased Football Manager 2013 from a participating retailer can now get their hands on a Beta version of the game\u2026 two weeks ahead of the full release on November<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=25178\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25179,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25178\/revisions\/25179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}