The best kind of extra credit

I love Rockstar. Why? Because the British boys are crazy. Last year they released the Saw-inspired video game Manhunt 2 (no relation to the hot boy toy application) and before that they pumped prostitution, murder and other scandalous skills into the uber-popular Grand Theft Auto series. The most recent GTA, San Andreas, even had a hidden sex minigame, which was enough to send presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton to her soapbox in 2005. (We were just happy there were finally some good games for adults.)

While waiting for April's Grand Theft Auto IV with bated breath, we learned that Rockstar's controversial PlayStation 2 game Bully is coming to the XBox 360 with, ahem, extra features. Best described as Grand Theft Auto Jr., Bully stars a tough boy trying to survive in a sadistic prep school.

Let's skip to the good part: you can make out with people -- people of either gender. It was originally a hidden skill, but in the new edition gives you XBox 360 Achievement Points for kissing more than 20 boys -- not a mean feat. Sort of like a lifetime score, your achievement point total shows how many games you've conquered. Get a higher score and you've got bragging rights.

With this added incentive, I'm sure we can now expect that guys across America will be working hard to make out with as many boys as possible!

-- DAMON BROWN

Ed. note: Totally turned on by the sexy underbelly of video games? Read more in Damon's book, Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, out this fall.