It’s already being talked about as the latest “What is this world coming to???” pop cultural event. And, no, we’re not just talking about the videogame itself. We’re talking about the videogame’s commercial.

The game is “Condemned 2: Bloodshot”, the next-gen follow-up to Sega’s 2005 horror hit. And, most assuredly, it raises the bar for psychological terror and realistic hand-to-hand combat. But as the game’s launch approached, the Duncan/Channon creative team was faced with an even more terrifying challenge — how do you capture in a TV spot the demonic spirit of the scariest (arguably) game ever?

The ad’s concept is simple. Playing “Condemned 2” is so frightening it will continue to haunt your thoughts long after you’ve stopped playing. To do the game justice, the TV spot had to capture the raw, visceral brutality and gut-wrenching horror that are the game’s hallmarks. So, after an exhaustive search, D/C put its script into the capably bloodied hands of feature film director — and horror specialist — Jim Sonzero, fresh from directing Pulse.

Now, out of the perverse dedication of the production team and director, sick support from the clients at Sega and, of course, D/C’s own twisted creative prowess (hey, it’s our site, we gotta toot our horns a little) has emerged an ad that’s making gamers’ jaws’ drop — and stomachs turn — even as we speak.

The opening chop in D/C’s Sensei attack on the gamer target. This “confusing” teaser ad (turns out, it’s a bit of origami that allows you to turn the magazine page into a throwing star) generated 32,000 phone calls in the first 24 hours, started a wildfire across the blogosphere and helped make Red Steel the number-one-selling, non-Nintendo title for the Wii.

Mention “South Lake Tahoe” and people think of a place where you’re just as likely to injure your liver as your ACL. This spot reminds them that while there is some serious nightlife to be found, there’s some serious skiing to balance it out.

Now you don’t have to leave home to have a party. Good news for us all, but even better if you happen to be under house arrest, have a halo brace screwed into your cranium or lack an immune system.

At some juncture in every budding romantic relationship, there is the “weekend away.” For guys, this basically means spending several hundred dollars for the privilege of not watching television. Fox Sports Mobile is here to service a man’s special needs.

Charmingly titled “You Suck,” D/C’s commercial for Ubisoft’s inaugural Wii title “Red Steel” was picked by the readers of Play magazine as their favorite of 2007. View the spot that bested all comers, including Microsoft Xbox’s nearly ubiquitous “Gears of War” ad. And from all of us at D/C, congratulations to Microsoft on second place!

As to be expected, Disney’s video games are aimed at the very youngest end of the target. These kids don’t want extra minutes on their cell phone (yet), they just want a puppy. Disney was happy to supply 102. D/C was happy to supply an offbeat spot.

“I am big,” said Norma Desmond. “It’s the pictures that got small.” (And if you haven’t ever seen Sunset Boulevard, kidz, drop everything and go directly to Netflix.)

Well, Norma’s definitely rolling over in her grave. Today’s “stars” are an amateur dominatrix and her ball-gagged slave, an incompetent Jedi warrior, a peek-a-boo zombie, an unsexy sexpot named Paris and other desperate showoffs who are huge in the ironic world of Internet videos.

And those stars have now come together in an historic viral video, created by D/C, to tout the online security software ZoneAlarm.

It’s not the real stars, of course, but — irony on irony — incredible facsimiles of the people with whom ZoneAlarm’s young, web-surfing target is thoroughly familiar.

And who better to deliver a sermon on Internet safety than Internet royalty?

Because while an old-school Hollywood superstar like the fictional Norma Desmond might have been seen by a few million moviegoers, the “Star Wars Kid” has, by Wikipedia’s estimate, been viewed over one billion times.

That’s star power.