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Figure this would be the best place for this, might move it to General Gaming later, lets see how it goes first...

The Simpsons XXII is the next game in the Simpsons gaming stint, named XXII due to it being the 22nd game based on the cartoon. The parody started when Electronic Arts revealed the new game with a countdown timer which used Roman numerals, looking near identical to that of Rockstar Games GTA IV count downer (only difference being the counter itself which is in the Simpsons font). The timer counts down to a launch on May 9th, 2007 at 2PM EST (7PM UTC).

Interesting idea, and pretty funny too. Wonder what Rockstar would think of it? Can we be expecting the count downer to be put on Fox like GTA IV's was? (Since The Simpsons is Fox owned)

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Ea.com XXII Count downer

Wikipedia overview of upcoming Simpsons Game

Original Finders

Other article on the count downer

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OMG that's awesome and funny as well! Simpsons games are always amusing and this was a nice GTA IV spoof. Gonna check out all those links now. Nice find Jared!

Edit: Meh, again no other info that you haven't already told us. But wow, this is really recent since it started on May 2nd. Now I have something to look forward to this week! :)

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That's pretty cool! (and cheeky of them!) .. I loved hit'n'run, gonna have to re-play that sometime, so is there no information on this latest game?

Nope, I don't think so atleast. Just that it's the 22nd Simpsons videogame. Don't worry there will probably be a lot more info when the trailer comes out on the 9th.

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Seems they've moved the site here, and lost the GTAIV mockery!

http://www.ea.com/simpsons/

Must have been threatened by someone so they decided to shut it down and started up this new one with a new name and different "coming soon". Probably thought of all the parents and/or politicians that would complain if a game made primarily for kids (which is what simpsons games usually are, even tho mostly adults play them probably) has connotations with a massive violent gang game like GTAIV. But hey, as long as the game isn't altered, who cares about the marketing?

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Seems they've moved the site here, and lost the GTAIV mockery!

http://www.ea.com/simpsons/

Must have been threatened by someone so they decided to shut it down and started up this new one with a new name and different "coming soon". Probably thought of all the parents and/or politicians that would complain if a game made primarily for kids (which is what simpsons games usually are, even tho mostly adults play them probably) has connotations with a massive violent gang game like GTAIV. But hey, as long as the game isn't altered, who cares about the marketing?

Or maybe they were simply doing it for a quick marketing lol? I mean, with GTA IV, IV is their big thing. That is their marketing plan. EA were just having fun.

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