The date that Dante's Inferno staggers on to retail shelves is communicated via depress release, featuring much more authors of epic poems being inserted into dog anuses than previously suspected. Also, the United Kingdom descends into lawlessness, and Doritos offers gamers a special chance to be creative. In an unrelated story, gamers tend to be fat and depressed.

This week - Yoko Ono tries to break up the band again, Michael Vick ruins dogs and hot wings equally, and China has an unseemly habit of beating game addicts to death. All this, plus depress releases about flight attendant, prison, and chipmunk video games.

This week on the show - EA invites men to sexually harass booth babes at conventions to score a night of implied sex with company prostitutes, all to pimp their game based on an epic poem about hell. Needless to say, it backfired. Also, car surfing, virtual justice, and “booyah moments.”

This week - some Oak Ridge Boys bring portable gaming devices into a restricted nuclear facility. Also, electric shock therapy, North Korean cyberwar, and virtual tractor driving. Enjoy the podcast on itunes or direct at www.levideogame.com. Give us twenty minutes, we'll give you the darkest corners of the virtual world.

This week - Hardee's wants you to come up with a name for their dark biscuit holes drizzled with icing, ensuring breakfast will never be the same. Also, virtual Dr. Pepper, praying for Christian games, snitching on South Koreans, and cracking down on China's virtual economy.

This week, the most depressing depress release so far, with the unleashing of a virtual birthday party for kids that got a Wii back in the day, but are now too poor to get a few tables at McDonalds and some hats. Also, President Obama laments our loser children, Iranians out of Second Life and into real life, and swarms of suicide bomber insects controlled by a recent high-school graduate. Welcome to the future.

Electronic Arts tempts fate by creating a revised set of Ten Commandments to promote a game about playing God, and also recruits fake Christian protestors to promote a game based on an epic poem about hell. Plus, one billion Hindus can't be wrong, the cancellation of the Guantanamo game, and why playing with carbon monoxide isn't the best disaster relief option.

Come celebrate three years of Le Video Game at the new www.levideogame.com, launching June 1! This week: prisoners running criminal empires through their Playstations, dubious iphone and pc games about sluts and pimps, and the glorious return of Left Behind Games - get ready to be raptured out of your boots!

This week on the podcast, McDonald's spends $100 million on advergames to promote its new large buckets of caffeinated whipped cream and chocolate, Pakistan wants our video game killers, the iPhone becomes a Pacific Islander murder simulator, and I remember you well in the Virtual Chelsea Hotel.

This week, Six Days in Fallujah makes a hard man humble, as the controversial game is halted in development. Speaking of being halted in development, Apple smothers its Baby Shaking iphone application, and Dairy Queen takes its place. I was going to say listen and it will all make sense, but it won't.