The hideously successful, successfully hideous and utterly unkillable Saw franchise is continuing to gnaw its way through the zeitgeist. Brash Entertainment has announced they’ll be releasing the Saw video game in 2009, timed to coincide with the release of Saw V. (Oh yes, there will be a Saw V.) Not many details are available yet, but the company promises the game “will have its own unique story line, while answering questions left unanswered by the Saw films.” No word yet on whether players will be able to assume the role of Jigsaw. Keep in mind, however, that these are the people responsible for the Chipmunk video game, so clearly there’s no limit to their depravity.

Short of a Captivity video game, where the player sits in a room and plays nauseatingly sadistic headgames with a virtual Elisha Cuthbert, it’s hard to think of a novelty that sounds more distasteful than this game. But I’m sure there’s one out there, and by June I’ll probably be writing a post about it.