The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Prototype Developer Radical Entertainment Appears to Have Returned, and Fans Are Hyped for Fresh Remakes

The workplace liable for The Simpsons: Hit & Run and Prototype, Radical Entertainment, appears to beryllium backmost nether a caller name: New Radical Games.

An amalgamation of "Radical Entertainment positive Hothead Games," the studio's caller website says, "it each started with Radical Entertainment backmost successful 1991. Fast guardant to 2025 and we person amassed invaluable acquisition on the way. We cognize however to seizure the essence of world-class intelligence properties, and present licensed games that delight fans everywhere."

Vancouver-based Radical was bought by Activision successful 2008, and was shuttered small much than 5 years aboriginal aft surviving retired its last years arsenic a Destiny enactment studio. Hothead — besides based successful Vancouver — went bankrupt successful 2024. The caller workplace is led by CEO Ian Wilkinson, who co-founded Radical, and COO Tim Bennison, who served arsenic main operating serviceman astatine Capcom's Vancouver workplace and had antecedently worked astatine Radical, too, arsenic enforcement shaper and VP technology.

News of the caller workplace from the radical who brought america games similar Prototype, Scarface: The World Is Yours, and The Simpsons: Hit & Run has intelligibly excited fans, with galore present crossing their fingers that the caller outfit could beryllium acceptable connected bringing those dormant IPs backmost to life.

"I LITERALLY JUST TALKED ABOUT THIS IN A THREAD ABOUT WHAT DEV STUDIOS WE WOULD REVIVE IF WE WERE RICH A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO!! HOLY S***!! I WILLED THIS INTO EXISTENCE!! I'M A GOD!!" exclaimed 1 precise excitable fan.

"A fewer months ago, rumors started going astir astir a Prototype remaster. Today, Radical games has seemingly relaunched and their website prominently displays their older titles including Prototype and Simpsons Hit & Run," teased another.

Late past year, IGN reported that fans thought they'd uncovered impervious that 2009 enactment crippled Prototype could beryllium getting a caller lease of life. While the crippled has mostly remained dormant connected Steam since its merchandise 16 years ago, eagle-eyed fans spotted a flurry of updates down the scenes via SteamDB, arsenic good arsenic a revealing datamine effort that has discovered a mysterious alteration to the game's credits that adds successful remaster studio, Iron Galaxy, and a funny notation to Ubisoft Connect.

That's not all, though. "So 1 of the OG modders for the crippled information mined the caller update and has recovered a batch of absorbing things," a instrumentality explained connected the game's subreddit. "For Prototype 1, they person added immoderate trial maps and rather a fewer caller names successful the credits. There mightiness beryllium immoderate anticipation for a remaster aft all."

This isn't, of course, grounds that a remaster is actually happening — close now, we're purely going connected vibes and crossed fingers — but New Radical indispensable person been established to enactment connected something, truthful support those fingers crossed!

Calls for an authoritative Simpsons: Hit and Run remake person likewise cropped up from clip to clip successful the 20+ years since the original’s release, but it seems an improbable project. In 2021 we spoke to Simpsons writer Matt Selman who said that portion helium "would emotion to spot a remastered mentation of [Simpsons Hit & Run]", it would beryllium "a analyzable firm octopus to effort to marque that happen."

For more, find retired precisely wherever we placed The Simpsons: Hit & Run successful our rundown of the best, worst, and weirdest Simpsons games.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.