{"id":64381,"date":"2014-05-14T13:00:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64381"},"modified":"2014-05-15T11:48:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T09:48:39","slug":"north-koreas-leader-gets-his-own-video-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/64381-north-koreas-leader-gets-his-own-video-game","title":{"rendered":"North Korea&#8217;s leader gets his own video game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you know what kind of game I have always wanted to play? One where I control North Korea&#8217;s dictator\u00a0Kim Jong-un, and take on the might of the US Army.<\/p>\n<p>Money Horse Games obviously caught wind of this, because they have announced their latest title: Glorious Leader!, a game about the triumph of\u00a0Kim Jong-un over America.<\/p>\n<p>The game is set to be released on PC and mobile before the end of 2014, and will help the general public understand &#8220;why North Korea is truly the best Korea&#8221;. Visually, it is about as advanced as North Korea itself, going with an old-school 2D look and feel &#8211; which brings back memories of Contra &#8211; with all the action taking place over 7 levels.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64385\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64385\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64385\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-3-600x360.png\" alt=\"Glorious Leader\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-3-600x360.png 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-3.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glorious Leader<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When Kim is not riding flaming unicorns (that actually happens in the game), he is shooting down US paratroopers, destroying tanks, and hanging out with Dennis Rodman.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Miller, CEO of Moneyhorse Games, said he was motivated to develop the game by his fascination with North Korea. He said he wanted to find a new way to tell the country&#8217;s story, and to get people across the world talking about the secretive nation.<\/p>\n<p>The game is aimed at people aged in their 20s and 30s &#8220;who are big into retro right now,&#8221; Miller said. It\u2019s being built for PC and mobile platforms, although\u00a0it&#8217;s unlikely Apple will host it, he added.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_64387\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-64387\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64387\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-1-600x360.png\" alt=\"Glorious Leader\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-1-600x360.png 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Glorious-Leader-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-64387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Glorious Leader<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We know what you are thinking, and the answers is yes: people from South Korea have already asked Money Horse if the game will be available in their country.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j8_X-9AIG-c?rel=0\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/14\/glorious-leader-us-developers-to-launch-north-korea-the-video-game?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64281-top-selling-games-in-sa-3.html\">Top-selling games in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64263-ea-to-shut-down-50-titles.html\">EA to shut down 50 titles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64159-gaming-has-gone-to-the-dogs.html\">Gaming has gone to the dogs<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All hail Kim Jong-un, our Glorious Leader!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12421,21,12423,8701],"class_list":["post-64381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-glorious-leader","tag-headline","tag-money-horse-games","tag-north-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64381","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\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64399,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64381\/revisions\/64399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}