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Buena Vista getting Desperate

Disney's game division announces PC title based on popular ABC satire Desperate Housewives, due this fall.

Desperate Housewives: The Game

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If there's one thing massive media conglomerates love, it's synergy. Need proof? Look no further than the Walt Disney Company. Today, the multibillion-dollar corporation announced it is bringing together its resurgent television network, ABC, and its nascent games division, Buena Vista Games. Hoping to replicate the success of PC games based on series from ABC rivals NBC Universal (Law & Order) and CBS Corp. (CSI), the two Disney divisions are making a game based on the hit satire Desperate Housewives.

Developed by Liquid Entertainment, most famous for the real-time strategy titles Dragonshard and Lord of the Rings: War of the Ring, the game is described as a "lifestyle simulation" game. Clearly oriented at the Sims demographic, the game puts players in the high heels of a new housewife who moves to Wisteria Lane, the fictional neighborhood the show is set in.

But while Desperate Housewives' popularity is in large part due to its ensemble cast, apparently none of its five stars have signed on to the project. Eva Longoria, Nicolette Sheridan, Felicity Huffman, Marcia Cross, and Teri Hatcher were not mentioned in the game announcement outside its footnotes about the show. Only Brenda Strong, who narrates the show as the disembodied voice of dead housewife Mary Alice Young, has publicly signed on to the project.

Desperate Housewives is set for release later this year for the PC. No rating or price has yet been set.

98 Comments

  • BD

    Posted Dec 28, 2006 9:54 am GMT

    You all must judge games without even playing them! I just got this game as a Christmas gift and it's pretty good and no I don't watch the show! I believe I've watched it 2 times, but this game is quite enjoyable. Not all people want to play shoot em up games, driving games or sports!

  • Mystic-Son

    Posted Jun 5, 2006 9:13 pm GMT

    Disney and ABC. You made suckish games of Your Disney Channel Show, now you are making a game about Wives that are Desperate? That isjust sad, graphics are ok, but that is Sad, LOST: The Game is gonna be cool though.

  • dre5922

    Posted May 23, 2006 6:42 pm GMT

    wtf? omg omfg OMFG!!!!!!!!!!! why would they even think about making a game like this. i think that this game is going to suck, do really badly and make disney loose tonnes of money. i hope they all get smitten.

  • mattxavier

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 2:44 pm GMT

    Thats what I call utter GARBAGE

  • chandu83

    Posted Apr 4, 2006 8:27 am GMT

    Desperate Housewives game would be just as much fun as the 'Watching paint dry while walking on broken glass' game. Nuf said!

  • da_dawg88

    Posted Apr 2, 2006 10:22 am GMT

    If Eva Longoria signs on I want a Hot Coffee mod!

  • alpha_company

    Posted Apr 1, 2006 1:23 pm GMT

    Can you play as the gardener?

  • grassgreener12

    Posted Mar 31, 2006 1:22 pm GMT

    who the heck wants to see a desperate housewives game!

  • mrgab

    Posted Mar 30, 2006 8:58 am GMT

    Umm, gaming industry running out of GOOD ideas so they make a lame tv show into a game?

  • arvikatarn

    Posted Mar 30, 2006 4:53 am GMT

    No Eva?? Im not even downloading that crap now...

  • Narwaffle

    Posted Mar 28, 2006 2:10 am GMT

    I'm very, very scared. Next it'll be the... urgh.... I don't even want to think about it... But then again maybe it'll be good. But then again... I think it's fact that it'll suck. There's some written law about TV to Video Game conversions sucking..

  • Seele1177

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 6:44 pm GMT

    Clearly the gaming industry is considering its femine side . . . and it sucks!

  • Mr_Manikin52

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 5:45 pm GMT

    Another reason we have the "Sims".

  • rokkuman09

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 4:48 pm GMT

    hahah they defiently are desperate

  • njsykora

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 2:40 pm GMT

    Quite an accurate headline.

    Shoot me now.

  • ghsacidman

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 1:13 pm GMT

    What do you do in the game? Get facials, complain about your husband, try to commit suicide, try on shoes, complain your butt looks big in these pants, and then get a divorce and take all of your "ex"husbands money even though he was the one working for the past 10 years to keep you alive while you made it seem like taking care of the kids and vaccuuming is actually harder then having a real job with a cubicle where you can hear the really ugly woman next door talk about her sex life for hours on end until you just want to explode so you tell her to stfu and then she sues you for whatever you have left in a sexual harrasment case. Sounds alittle bit too much like the real life of being married to a feminist.... Thanks, but I'm never gonna buy a copy of this game EVER!!!!

  • metdevthegamer

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 12:46 pm GMT

    I can see that coming from Buena Vista, who make nothing but crappy tie-ins based on Disney properties. I don't see this as being a huge success; who's going to buy this game? I doubt a lot of people that watch Desperate Housewives play games and I doubt people who play games will play this.

  • 0neWingedAngel

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 11:53 am GMT

    Move over Big Rigs...you wont be the worst game forever...

  • 0neWingedAngel

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 11:51 am GMT

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  • jaefrmbk2k

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 10:48 am GMT

    watch, this'll sell better than BulletProof featurin' 50 cent aka the bullet sponge

  • K1LLSWITCH

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 10:38 am GMT

    Gotta make some money sometime. Look at the X-files game, that was horrible.

  • gdogg4210

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 9:53 am GMT

    some one needs to get fired

  • sofy

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 5:02 am GMT

    Ridiculous....

  • Matt_Night

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 2:16 am GMT

    ehehe, kinda funny idea at the furst glimpse ...but if they made it an adventure game, maybe it could work out somehow.
    Of course adventure games dont sell well, so they won't do it, but still.

  • GreyFoxV1

    Posted Mar 27, 2006 12:09 am GMT

    My common sense says this cant be serious but my spidey sense says all they see is dollar signs.

  • dodgyd55

    Posted Mar 26, 2006 3:29 pm GMT

    WHY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

  • wolflegresley

    Posted Mar 26, 2006 12:53 pm GMT

    YAY

  • Willdyer10

    Posted Mar 26, 2006 11:17 am GMT

    this is one game the world does'nt need...

  • theruudstar

    Posted Mar 26, 2006 3:46 am GMT

    This is definite proof: the Apocalypse is coming soon. Ofcourse we'll get a crappy PC-game to try it out before the Alpha and the Omega does his thing...

  • deepdreamer256

    Posted Mar 26, 2006 3:36 am GMT

    It's there fault for making crappy movie-licensed games.

  • syx

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 10:11 pm GMT

    A slut sim?

  • lewser5

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 8:57 pm GMT

    Anything for a buck I guess. You should be able to find this in the bargain bin in a month.

  • Kfoss

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 7:33 pm GMT

    somebody please put these developers out of there minds or give advise to em on how to find a new employer...because develpeing a game basied on this is a fate worse than death...and its going to fail miserably...and of all the stupidity...there are soo many other franchises under Disney that could make money....

  • PierreDevereaux

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 7:00 pm GMT

    Forget about Desperate Housewives, I want a LOST game!

  • superbrett2000

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 5:28 pm GMT

    LOL! I cant believe I'm reading this. I think t.v. to game has got to be worse than movie to game. If gamers dont watch T.V. then why the heck do they think that gamers will want to play a game based off a T.V. show?

  • vejkis

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 3:25 pm GMT

    Why, why, dear god why?!

  • Orasion_Seiz

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 1:53 pm GMT

    this will not be good i have a feeling

  • badboy231

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 12:57 pm GMT

    i wonder if they will have "hot Coffee"

  • badboy231

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 12:55 pm GMT

    wow this is freaking crazy i wonder if the game play will be like "hot coffe"

  • johnnyv2003

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 11:20 am GMT

    if eva longoria were to be in the game i might say it would be close to being a rental but not even sure if it's going to be worth gazing upon....luckily longoria can be found on the internets

  • alexander_payne

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 10:41 am GMT

    May the christian god suddenly start existing and have mercy on our souls, which also just started existing.

    And the worst thing of all people will buy this.

  • remage

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 10:41 am GMT

    Clearly, some people are eager to lose money.

  • Iron-Dragon

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 10:26 am GMT

    Dear God...

  • solsticeblue

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 10:13 am GMT

    I can't even begin to imagine how you can translate it into a game? Probably "HOT COFFEE" to the extreme!!!.... yeah right!

  • jonnyjd

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 9:21 am GMT

    Not sure who thought this one up but it shouldn't have. Good show...not so good game idea.

  • Zerofitz

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 8:46 am GMT

    looks like crap!

  • rich639

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 7:30 am GMT

    this is going to be worse than bulletproof

  • chrisdojo

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 7:06 am GMT

    what the poo....... how dumb is this.

  • Supermodified

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 6:46 am GMT

    I'll wait for the Nintendo DS port. This should be graet!!1!!1!!!

  • ArthurYanthar2

    Posted Mar 25, 2006 5:29 am GMT

    Oh dear god.

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