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Because nothing takes the sting out of romantic turbulence like playing a video game about romantic turbulence, a European developer has created a new game inspired by Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

Mighty Box Games' Will Love Tear Us Apart? is a "browser-game about relationships on the brink of breaking up," the developers said, according to Consequence of Sound. "What guides this game is an ambition to frustrate, upset and sting the player into remembering the dark days preceding the death of a relationship."

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A trailer for the game opens with a black-and-white image of a beating heart, shooting to questions asking "Will love snare you?/ Heal you?/ Or tear you apart?," at which point a string (heartstrings perhaps?) snaps dramatically. The rest of the trailer is a dizzying spiral of human figures embracing, arguing and separating over the course of a relationship.

The developers said that the aim of the game is to "reflect on the darker side of love: miscommunication, emotional impasse and the sadness of separation. Solace may be found in the brief moment of lightness that comes over us when we come to terms with the reality of an irreconcilable relationship," sort of like a rearview mirror, except in this case relationships may appear closer than they actually are. The game is available now.

And I thought those Disney/Unknown Pleasures T-shirts were the wankiest JD related thing Id ever see...

Oh well, if you're a bit tired and hungry I guess that excuses needlessly offensive posts then. Does that mean we have to wait until you've had a sleep and some food for you to be a bit more civil? Like a child?

Yeah! I remember http://forums.neworderon....aspx?g=posts&m=1839

It is definitely ridiculous the idolatry. But with the band putting his face on the big screen, not really a problem with that, they knew him so I think they have more of a right to do that than all these hipsters/hardcore fans who I think are all as bad as each other. So I'm not bothered by New Order doing that. I also have a joy division t-shirt but I refuse to buy the Unknown Pleasures t-shirts, they annoy me and I see them all the time. They remind me of "fans" of joy division who just like to deride anything New Order have done because they are "happy pop shit" and they see Movement as their best album, when it really isn't. They also give Ian Curtis undue credit, I mean if you had never heard of Joy Division/New Order and talked to some of these people, you'd think it was Ian Curtis' solo band, these people think he wrote all the music - when he only wrote lyrics. Bernard, Steve and Peter have never got the credit they deserve when it comes to Joy Division imo.

Rant over, sorry about that.