{"id":115336,"date":"2025-11-27T05:01:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T12:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/11\/27\/top-video-games-for-holiday-gifting-this-year\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-11-27T05:06:57","modified_gmt":"2028-10-12T05:06:57","slug":"top-video-games-for-holiday-gifting-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/11\/27\/top-video-games-for-holiday-gifting-this-year\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Top video games for holiday gifting this year"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top video games<br \/>\n\tfor holiday gifting this year<br \/>\n\tGaming remains a wildly  popular pastime. According  to TechJury, more than 3.3 billion people worldwide played video games in 2025, and gaming is a mainstream  hobby across all generations.  The Entertainment Software  Association\u2019s 2025 Facts About the U.S. Video Game Industry report indicates the average player is 26 years old and female and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":115328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115336"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115429,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115336\/revisions\/115429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115336"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=115336"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=115336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}