Visceral Games has announced via a press notice that the script writer of Dante's Inferno is Will Rokos. Rokos is best known for his Oscar nomination for the script of the film Monster's Ball.
"Visceral Games announced today that Academy Award-nominated writer Will Rokos is writing the story line for Dante's Inferno, the adaptation of part one of Dante Alighieri's epic poem "The Divine Comedy" from Visceral Games."
Joystiq: If you're looking for a trailer comprised of nothing but gameplay, then you're getting into the spirit of this Dante's Inferno trailer. You're being greedy and your greedy nature will not be rewarded -- that is, unless you're willing to work for that greed. You'll have to put in some work and comb through this trailer, extracting all of the juicy portions of gameplay one by one. Sure, you'll have to put up with producers and designers chatting up their version of the fourth circle of Hell, but thankfully all of that hard work is worth it, because there are some genuinely impressive environments and enemies to behold. Enemies and environments you've never seen in any other game ever. Seriously.
Kotaku writes: "Not one to back away from controversy, Electronic Arts today mailed out real checks payable to game reviewers for $200.
GamersDigest writes;
Apparently September, besides marking the end of summer, is Greed Month. What's that mean? Well, you can pre-order Dante's Inferno for cheaper.
At this year's GamesCom, EA has just announced that Dante's Inferno will have a karma system similar to inFAMOUS.
EA's Dante's Inferno will launch Febuary 9th 2010 in the US and Febuary 12th 2010 in the EU, a similar timeframe to the provisional date for it's rival God of War III which launches March 2010.
Destructoid writes: We spied this statue of Dante and scythe back in June at E3 2009. Now this darling monument to EA Visceral's God of War-style brawler is sitting proudly in the middle of the game's gothic booth at Gen Con 2009. Below in the gallery we've provided some pictures of the statue as well as the decorated cardboard rotunda it sits in.
Yahoo: "Games maker EA has incited a wave of backlash over the latest marketing ploy for their upcoming action game, Dante's Inferno."