A rather tepid "religious" protest of Dante's Inferno outside E3 yesterday turns out to have been driven by EA all along.
EA's Dante's Inferno tells an adapted story that focuses on delivering a blockbuster 3rd person action game experience while bringing Alighieri's depiction of Hell to the medium. Players assume the role of Dante, who descends into Hell after returning home to find his beloved Beatrice murdered, with Lucifer seducing her soul into the underworld. Dante sets out on a rescue mission to save Beatrice, but he soon realizes he is also in Hell to face his own demons and ultimately to redeem himself...
VG247: Dante's Inferno is being developed equally across PS3 and 360, producer Jonathan Knight has told VG247, and the game has no "lead platform" to speak of.
VG247: Dante's Inferno is a genre game, dev lead Jonathan Knight told us in London recently, and will only really deviate from a well-loved path of fighting mechanics in terms of setting and plot.
IncGamers' Tim McDonald ventures through Hell, and comes back with stories of how Dante's Inferno is shaping up.
VG247: "Dante's Inferno dev lead Jonathan Knight has told VG247 that you can expect his game will get DLC. He's just not ready to discuss it yet."
EA's video game adaptation of Dante's Inferno is supposedly going to let you kill some babies. Don't worry, though -- they were never baptized so they're obviously evil.
VG247: EA just confirmed that Dante's Inferno will release in 2010.
Dan Harris has been set by Universal Pictures to write "Dante's Inferno," a live-action film based on the Electronic Arts vidgame in which players journey through the depths of hell.
For the chance of winning a trip to San Francisco – as well as having your production featured as the official trailer for Dante's Inferno – Electronic Arts are inviting fans to produce a thirty-three second trailer for the game.