{"id":375168,"date":"2026-08-15T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T18:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=375168"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:17:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T15:17:52","slug":"the-simpsons-hit-run-may-return-matt-groening-teases-it-at-d23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-simpsons-hit-run-may-return-matt-groening-teases-it-at-d23\/","title":{"rendered":"The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run may return: Matt Groening teases it at D23"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Matt Groening hinted at a possible return for <a href=\"https:\/\/the-simpsons-hit-run.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run<\/a> during Disney\u2019s D23, saying the <strong>2003 Simpsons game<\/strong> \u201cis coming back in some form\u201d: \u201cI think the original game is coming back in some form.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Then Matt Selman, the showrunner for The Simpsons, immediately blurred the picture with a quick \u201c\u2026or not,\u201d and nothing official has followed. <strong>No remake, no remaster<\/strong>, no sequel, no rerelease. Even so, Selman\u2019s earlier \u201cnever say never,\u201d along with reports that Activision had been bringing back a major licensed game players were \u201cabsolutely desperate for,\u201d kept the 2024 rumors going.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019ve been hoping for another trip to Springfield, keep an eye on this. The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run, released in <strong>2003<\/strong> for PlayStation 2, Xbox, GameCube, and PC, still has a loyal following because of its references, its chaos, and that GTA-style open world. It\u2019s also a pain to play on current hardware.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a little more fuel for the speculation. New Radical Games says on its website that it remasters classics, and Hit &amp; Run appears on the site. On top of that, producer John Melchior has said Radical Entertainment once began work on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/why-the-simpsons-hit-and-run-didnt-have-a-part-two-not-even-the-developers-know-it\" rel=\"noopener\">Hit &amp; Run 2<\/a><\/strong>, along with a medieval Matt Groening pitch, before Vivendi turned down five more Simpsons games.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For now, though, the only way back to the original The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run is through those <strong>older platforms<\/strong>, not a modern digital release.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That\u2019s probably because the license passed from Vivendi to Activision and then to Disney, which leaves fans with <strong>nostalgia<\/strong>, arguments about how well the gameplay has aged, and still no confirmation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Groening hinted at a possible return for The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run during Disney\u2019s D23, saying the 2003 Simpsons game \u201cis coming back in some form\u201d: \u201cI think the original game is coming back in some form.\u201d Then Matt Selman, the showrunner for The Simpsons, immediately blurred the picture with a quick \u201c\u2026or not,\u201d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-simpsons-hit-run-may-return-matt-groening-teases-it-at-d23\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Simpsons: Hit &amp; Run may return: Matt Groening teases it at D23&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":375167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6823],"class_list":["post-375168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","content-category-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375176,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375168\/revisions\/375176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375168"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=375168"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=375168"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=375168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}