Le Video Game

The Beatles: Rock Band is underperforming in sales, and the music game genre as a whole is starting to tank. Also, read the new Dante's Inferno book, based on the popular new video game!

Def Leppard is making a video game. Also, allied forces are using iphone apps to line up their sniper shots on the battlefield, for reals. Also, now you can play video games with your shoe.

This is it folks. 100 episodes in the can. As if that weren't special enough, it's also the 4th Annual Year in Replay episode, featuring the best stories, skits, and more from 2009. Plus new stories on the bad part of town in Farmville, the Nyquil Nation, and the bookless streets of Laredo.

Conservative Christian website World Net Daily takes unusual glee in reporting hot dirty gay sex in fantasy game Dragon Age: Origins. Also, REO Speedwagon make a video game. No, really.

A man marries his dating simulator girlfriend and takes her (aka his Nintendo DS) to Guam for their honeymoon. Things are not much better in Denmark (in fact, something is rotten in the state of Denmark), where a government agency would have you play the "Hit the Bitch" advergame, where you physically beat a woman to the ground in order to learn about domestic violence.

A very special international episode of the podcast finds your host in London, England, preparing to enter the Chunnel for the very first time. But first, depress releases and stories about China and smoking. Back in two weeks for our regularly scheduled programming.

Play the Amp Energy Drink iphone app, publicly humiliate women, then apologize about it on Twitter. Welcome to the sad, sad future! Plus stories on the virtual border and how the French like to kill each other. Zut alors!

Maybe bundling working night-vision goggles with a war video game wasn't such a good idea. Also, Cyberbike provides sweaty virtual fun for the whole family, and thrill to China's virtual trade war.

It's that time of year - with outside projects looming large, Le Video Game has another very special episode, aka time-saving clip show, featuring some of the least dubious songs from the last year, plus all-new stories on addiction, drugs, and financial football. Goal!

Courtney Love gets a little upset about her late husband virtually singing Bon Jovi songs, the Japanese play Axe Body Spray horror games, and the Army doesn't need to put any more violent video game centers in your local mall because the recession is doing all the recruiting for them now, thank you very much!