First off, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, belated Happy Hanukah, and all those cheerful exclamations to all! The holidays are a time of love and family, sure, but they’re also a time of shiny, shiny presents–and therefore a time of games. Let us celebrate with much button mashing!

Anyways, in the news this week:Fleshbot brings us a clitoral “s(t)imulation” game that makes use of the iPhone’s touch screen. It may be little more than a Flash-based orgasm challenge, but at least it’s encouraging. When was the last time your iPhone insisted you “don’t stop”?

According to Kotaku, the Electronics Entertainment Expo is headed back to Los Angeles. But Rich Taylor, senior vice president of communications and research for the Entertainment Software Association, claims, “We are very much not going back to the old E3.” That means still no booth babes–and possibly more issues around sex and censorship. Fun!

Regina Lynn shares a sexy holiday gift guide of her own. In it, she recommends a series of nifty sex toys that use sound to control vibration. That means you can literally get off on your lover’s voice, or just your favorite tunes. As the site for the Talk2Me rabbit points out, Barry White is going to pleasure you in a totally different way than Prince. Choose wisely.

Lastly, speed dating–that terrifying and hilarious fad–has hit Web 2.0, says Wired. A number of new sites are offering rapid-fire webcam dates, where users can end awkward meetings with a few simple clicks. How easy/hard is it to feel chemistry over the internet? Apparently hundreds of thousands of couples have already been introduced this way, so maybe there’s some merit to the dating equivalent of the gong show…

I’m off to Italy to get cultured and milk goats (i.e. visit Florence then go work on an organic farm) for the New Year. See you all in 2008!