The Simpsons Game

The Simpsons Game for PlayStation 2 has finally managed to take out the top spot in the Australian game charts -- seven weeks after its initial release -- according to data trackers GfK Australia. The DS version of the game also made it into the top 10, taking out the seventh spot. Super Mario Galaxy for the Nintendo Wii -- last week's number one -- fell down to number two during the week of December 10-December 16. Drawn to Life for the Nintendo DS has reappeared in the overall charts at number three after a brief hiatus. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare for the Xbox 360 climbed up from the previous week to number five, while Activision's other chart topper -- Guitar Hero 3: Legends of Rock -- is nowhere to be seen. Halo 3 for the 360 has reappeared at number nine, while Nintendo's Big Brain Academy: Wii Degree bundle ended the week at number 10.

This week's top rental charts from U.S. game rental company GameFly, representing the most requested games for the week ending December 3rd, highlight both to-be-released and already released games in a unique demand-specific chart. This week's top five all-platform requests show little movement once again, after last week saw the list barely ruffled. Assassin's Creed still takes the top spot for a third week with Mass Effect in second for its second week in a row. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, which spent the last two weeks at number four, slips a bit to the fourth spot to make room for Kane and Lynch: Dead Men to move up one spot into the fourth spot, but that's the only movement -- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune stays at number five, where it entered last week.

Oct 23, 2007 Apparently Rockstar were among a number of game companies that werent happy with the way The Simpsons Game, out for 360, Wii, PS2, DS 2 November, was parodying their creations and wanted somethings removed from the final code. In an excusive interview with CVG the lead designer, Greg Rizzer, stated “we've had to pull stuff from the game”. But it seems, apart from renaming the trailer on the official site from Grand Theft Scratchy to the less catchy Mob Rules, not

The review scores from EGM #222 (December 2007) are revealed: * Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock: 9, 8.5, 8 * Sega Rally Revo: 7.5, 7, 7 * Conan: 5.5, 5.5, 5.5 * WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2008: 8, 7, 5.5 * Clive Barker's Jericho: 3, 4.5, 4.5 (Shame of the Month) * The Simpsons Game: 7, 6.5, 7 * Bladestorm: The Hundred Years War: 4, 6, 4 * Folklore: 5.5, 7.5, 8 * The Eye of Judgment: 8, 8, 8 * Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction: 8.5, 9.5, 9 * Halo 3: 10, 10, 9 * Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation: 6.5, 6.5, 8 * Half-Life 2 Orange Box: 10, 9.5, 10 * Beautiful Katamari: 7, 4.5, 4 * Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations: 9, 7, 7.5 * Disgaea: Afternoon of Darkness: 7.5, 7, 7 * Silent Hill: Origins: 7.5, 7, 7

Looks like EA is giving Simpsons fans reason enough to plunk down early money for The Simpsons Game coming in October. Folks who pre-order the game will get their very own Homerball! See it at UGO

Electronic Arts will unleash their pre-order campaign for the upcoming title, The Simpsons Game. Four of the biggest game retailers (GameStop, Wal-Mart, Target and Best Buy) will each have an exclusive, limited edition The Simpsons Game Parody Poster for early customers. Each Poster is representative of an in-game parody featured in the new title. In addition, each retailer will have a specifically created cheat code printed on the back of the game posters to open some of the unlockable content in the game. These are all while supplies last.

Sept 3, 2007 Following on from our video walkthrough of The Simpsons game last week, we can now bring you the latest trailer featuring everyones favourite yellow family, entitled Medal of Homer. This is just one of a number of game related levels to be included in whats shaping up to be the best Simpsons game ever. But lets be honest, the previous titles werent exactly triple A standard. As the games script is being crafted by the shows writers, we know theres going to be hundreds of

Tuesday 10 July 2007 So there we were, lounging in the bar of our hotel in Santa Monica, sipping daiquiris and enjoying the live musical noodlings of the Cross Heart Jazz Experience when David Silverman, the director of The Simpsons Movie, strolls in with a honking great tuba slung over his shoulder and joins the band for a head-nodding, chin-stroking jazzmatazz of sweet, sweet ear sex. And we thought the tuba was only good for making comedy flatulence parps. Shame on us. When the lights