“Jersey Shore” Online Game & Snooki iPhone App Will Premiere This Week

A new online game will allow GTLers to be part of MTV’s controversial vodka-soaked soap Jersey Shore, the network said Monday.

A Jersey Shore online game and separate iPhone application are being released as the MTV hit reality series returns to the tube for a second season this Thursday night at 10 PM. The new season sees the barfly cast members take their drunken antics away from Seaside Heights, New Jersey for a few weeks of sun and surf in South Beach, Miami.

The game allows online players to square off with one another in humorous one-on-one battles between animated versions of the outrageous cast of young housemates, using household items that play on scenes from the show.

“There are always 3-5 things that happen (each episode) that are just so over the top that everyone is talking about them. Those are the things we put in the game,” Tony Espinoza, president of social games for MTV Networks told Reuters.

The game will launch on Tuesday for Jersey Shore’s 1.6 million Facebook members, and one day later on MTV.com for all other users.

In the meantime, a separate iPhone application called “Spread Snooki” — inspired by popular castmate Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi” is being released on Apple’s iTunes this week.

The app owners options of superimposing fist pumps or head shots of the show’s outspoken young star onto existing personal photos, or into live photos as they are being taken.

If the application is a success apps for other cast members will follow.