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Thanks to Max Haggard for this inevitability, which we had missed. Moneyhorse Games had started development of a Glorious Leader video game. The trailer on YouTube, posted up last summer and now with 1.4 million views, is 1 minute and 12 seconds long but manages to squeeze in the following:
- The choked-up, overwrought news announcer introducing the Glorious Leader;
- Kim Jong Un knocking off Airborne forces;
- Kim Jong Un riding a unicorn and blowing up American tanks;
- Kim Jong Un and Dennis Rodman descending via a secret elevator in the middle of a basketball court.
However the new development in the story is that its Kickstarter campaign—which had raised $16,000 of a $55,000 goal--had to be cancelled following a Sony-style hack at developer Moneyhorse. According to Moneyhorse, “the hackers destroyed data pertaining to Glorious Leader! and other projects we had in development and locked us out of our own computers and wesbite.” The firm was quick to say that it had no reason to believe that North Korea was involved, and that this was probably a copycat attack. But I would not be too sure; there is ample evidence of preoccupation with these slights to the Young General. Indeed, the Interview and video games may be more subversive than anything else under serious discussion by the usual policy wonks.
