{"id":27619,"date":"2011-11-28T14:20:50","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T12:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=27619"},"modified":"2011-11-28T14:49:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T12:49:05","slug":"whore-of-the-orient-l-a-noire-devs-next-big-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/27619-whore-of-the-orient-l-a-noire-devs-next-big-game","title":{"rendered":"Whore of the Orient &#8211; L.A. Noire dev&#8217;s next big game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The next game from former Team Bondi boss \/ LA Noire writer \/ alleged fascist overlord, Brendan McNamara, is something called &#8220;Whore of the Orient&#8221;, and is currently in development over at his new job at KMM Interactive.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afr.com\/p\/george_miller_new_script_q1wYu1EFjLM0cyZa4s97fI\">Australian Financial Review interview<\/a> with KMM owner, George Miller, which notes that\u00a0 the studio &#8220;has also acquired the rights to Team Bondi founder Brendan McNamara&#8217;s next game, Whore Of The Orient.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McNamara told Eurogamer earlier this month that the game would be &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-11-09-brendan-mcnamara-is-making-the-video-game-of-the-greatest-untold-story-of-the-20th-century\">one of the great untold stories of the twentieth century<\/a>&#8221; and compared it with LA Noire in terms of scope.<\/p>\n<p>If you were hoping for a game about the life, times, and johns of a notorious Asian sex worker, however, you might be in line for disappointment &#8211; the &#8220;Whore of the Orient&#8221; is usually a name associated with the Chinese city of Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>Although I suppose &#8220;notorious Asian sex worker&#8221; still probably applies in that case.<\/p>\n<p>Let the speculation commence!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disappointingly, it probably doesn&#8217;t involve whores. BUT IT MIGHT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":27669,"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_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[21,1061,1059],"class_list":["post-27619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-headline","tag-mcnamara","tag-whores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27667,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27619\/revisions\/27667"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}