Oh yay! Girl gamers everywhere rejoice, because the Desperate Housewives videogame is due for release 03 November. Yes, the sarcasm is on full throttle here, because you can already see that this game will be marketed towards the female gamer spectrum, with many veteran female gamers groaning at the prospect of just such an experience.

Desperate Housewives: The Game is a lifestyle simulation game with a 12-episode storyline. The game enables Windows PC users to customize a housewife and her family. The new housewife will move into a house on Wisteria Lane and uncover secrets from her past through interaction with her neighbours—including existing characters from the popular TV series as well as all-new characters. With a script from series writer Scott Sanford Tobis, the game is a new narrative that incorporates both drama and dark humour—a combination of characteristics familiar to fans of the show. 

Okay, so it actually sounds not too bad on paper, there’s just something about tacky TV tie-ins that makes the skin crawl, though if this were a Battlestar Galactica tie-in, we at GamerSquad would probably be jumping with joy, so each to his/her own.

Brenda Strong reprises her role from the Desperate Housewives series as the voice of deceased housewife Mary Alice Young, who serves as the show’s omniscient narrator throughout each episode. 

Desperate Housewives: The Game is developed by Liquid Entertainment, and will be rated ‘T for Teen’ by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) and has a suggested retail price of $19.99.