Love Plus, released only on the Japanese market, has become the country’s most popular dating game since its release last September, selling nearly 430,000 copies, according to research firm Enterbrain.

The secret is that the dating game goes a step beyond the genre’s usual boy-meets-girl script and asks players to build long-term relationships.

“In conventional love games, you went up stages to make a virtual girl fall in love with you, so that she would accept you as a boyfriend or express her love for you,” said Konami spokesman Kunio Ishihara. “But players of Love Plus are in a scenario where they are a high school boy who is already dating one of the virtual girls. The goal is to see how good you can be to her and to build a relationship.”

Consider the implications.

This amounts to conclusive physiological justification for the male practice of staring at female breasts.

“It’s a reflex that’s built into the brain circuits,” she said in an interview. “At its core biological basis, it’s unfair to criticize men for that initial unconscious circuitry.”

In light of this, male ogling must henceforth be considered genetic destiny rather than anti-social creepiness.

Hundreds of porn DVDs are stacked elbow-deep on a wooden table in Jassim Hanoun’s ramshackle stall on a downtown sidewalk. His other tables have Hollywood blockbusters, like “King Kong.” But not surprisingly, it’s the sex that sells best.

“I’ve got everything,” Hanoun says of his sex selection, flashing the kind of impish grin only a 22-year-old in tight jeans and slicked-back hair can pull off with any real conviction. “What do you want? I’ve got foreign films, Arab, Iraqi, Indian, celebrities — whatever you like.”

In moments, flames were roaring across the exclusive Shady Canyon Golf Club in Irvine, threatening hundreds of multi-million pound mansions that skirt the fairways.

By the time firefighters with helicopter support had the blaze under control, it had destroyed 12 acres but left homes untouched.

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Vincz says more than 600 applications were downloaded and 268 information kits were sent out following the program’s announcement on Aug. 1.

64 percent of women would release a sex tape if it would help advance their careers.

The survey found that 45 percent of women also answered that they would sleep with their professor to pass a college class. (Meanwhile, a relatively paltry 42 percent of men would pull a “Kardashian.”)

36 percent of women replied they would blackmail a co-worker or a boss to get ahead.

Seven people who were arrested while dressed as zombies and their attorney will be paid $165,000 from the city of Minneapolis.

Police arrested seven friends in 2006 as they danced through downtown Minneapolis while wearing zombie costumes.

Police Lt. Neal Cuevas said that Marleine Bastien was in a car Saturday with her sister outside the Church of the Living God when another car pulled up along side them. A man got out, opened the driver’s door, and demanded the women give him their purses and threatened to kill them.