No, your eyes are not deceiving you. A Gossip Girl game is actually in the works, if this marketing survey is to be believed. I guess that, given the show's popularity, producers have opted to whore the brand out and milk it for all it's worth. What's next? Gossip Girl cereal?

How does one turn a show about the lives of rich, spoiled socialites living in New York City into a video game? I have no idea, but the marketing idiots geniuses behind this doomed endeavour provided a short blurb about the game for us to mull over.

“In the game Gossip Girl, spend a semester fraternizing with the glamorous socialites of Manhattan's Upper East Side at an elite private school. Explore the hippest social hot spots of New York City and attend the most fashionable parties. Shop in the trendiest boutiques of the fashion district and customize your character's appearance. Gain entry into exclusive social cliques where you'll make or break relationships with popular girls and date the most desirable boys while you build up your social status. Read the Gossip Girl Blog and see how the choices you make become part of the complex world of shifting friendships, jealousies and scandals.”

Sounds... dreadful.

Still, I generally hope this guaranteed abortion of a game turns out better than the show’s current god-awful Second Life incarnation. It probably won’t, though, because at least in Second Life, you can rain dildos on unsuspecting fans of the show.

Yes -- dildos. Look into it. Second Life is a haven of debauchery and phalluses.