Joakim Mogren Interview and Reveal
The Metal Gear Solid V masquerade didn’t end with the trailer; there was also the case of Joakim Mogren, the supposed head of Moby Dick Studio and director of The Phantom Pain. The arrival of this random development studio was pretty confusing, but the fact that its head would only show up to interviews covered in bandages was completely bewildering. Something was fishy, and I’m not talking about the Moby Dick Studio logo.
People had pretty much nailed down The Phantom Pain as the new Metal Gear game before it was officially unveiled, which just served to make the events at GDC 2013 all the more hilarious. Kojima announced that he would be attending GDC to show off a demo for the new Fox Engine and to make a new announcement. During Mogren’s interview with Geoff Keighley, the Fox Engine logo can clearly be seen in the corner of some of the screenshots. After Keighley mentions this, Mogren gasps, and the interview suddenly ends. He was caught red-handed. It was later at the event that Joakim Mogren and Moby Dick Studio were revealed as fictional entities.
Keen observers would have noticed that Joakim is an anagram of Kojima. If you were one of the intellectuals who managed to crack that code, give yourself a pat on the back.
