THQ signs Playboy mobile games deal

We wonder if behind closed doors, Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion is a very different place. Forget all the models, jacuzzis and champagne: Hef's getting on a bit now, and surely prefers to spend his evenings supping Horlicks while watching the bowls on telly.

Or maybe not.

THQ Wireless' new game certainly wouldn't be as fun if so. It's called Playboy Games: Pool Party, and it's a collection of mini-games set in and around the Playboy Mansion. If we worked for Nuts, we'd be making a 'hot totty, not hot toddies' joke around now.

Anyway, the game does feature bikini-clad Playmates, alongside activities such as water balloon fights, waterslide slaloms, and aquatic mechanical bull riding. We think that last one's a cert for the 2012 Olympics.

It's part of an exclusive new deal between THQ Wireless and Playboy that will see the publisher releasing a series of "lifestyle themed non-nude" Playboy mobile games. Pool Party is due out this summer, with more to follow.