Digital Chocolate ("With a Name Like That, We've Got to Be Vaguely Distasteful") has announced a dating video game aimed at teens and their cell phones. With "The Hook Up: AvaFlirting," you can create a little cell-phone avatar and flirt with other peoples' cell phone avatars in a cruel, deformed mockery of human relations. Details are scant, but apparently the game will be part virtual pet, part virtual dating, and all PG-13. While parents' groups may end up being worried about the implications on semi-anonymous virtual "dating," linguists will be more concerned about the mind-boggling awkwardness of the word "AvaFlirting."

Teen "Hook-up" Game Planned