The demo for Dante's Inferno is coming to the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 this month, but one console is getting it two weeks ahead of the other. Who gets it first? Hint - it's not the Xbox 360.

I suppose that was a rather large hint, but I just couldn't keep our readers in suspense. The Dante's Inferno Gates of Hell demo will be hitting the PlayStation Network on December 10th, arriving on Xbox Live two weeks later on the 24th. Announced last month, the demo features the entire opening level of the game, detailing Dante's journey to Hell's gates in order to rescue his murdered love, Beatrice.

"The world of Alighieri's Dante's Inferno is such a rich, detailed, and often alarming universe, that all of us at Visceral Games put our hearts, and dare I say souls, into creating something truly intense and exciting," said executive producer Jonathan Knight. "We hope gamers enjoy this tease of hell, and come away from the experience lusting for more when the game comes out on February 9."

In the spirit of the holidays, I urge PlayStation 3 owners to invite an Xbox 360 owner to their home on December 10th in order to promote console harmony. Call it a kinder, gentler way of saying "go to hell.
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Electronic Arts Inc. announced today that a playable demo of Dante's Inferno will be freely downloadable from PlayStation Network and Xbox Live on December 24.
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CC: The team working on Dante's Inferno have revealed that the game is now in it's Beta stage.
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BeefJack writes: "Hell; you know the drill. Fire, brimstone, and eternal damnation; the basics. Now thanks to a new Facebook application by EA in honor of its upcoming release Dante's Inferno, you'll be able to share all the perks of Hell with your nearest and dearest.

The "Go to Hell" application allows you to send your friends to one of the nine levels of hell depicted in Dante's iconic poem. The levels, in case you haven't had a chance brush up on your Dante recently, include Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud or Treachery."
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Flytrap writes: "EA's new promotional game Go to Hell already has about eight or nine thousand more active monthly users than Pope2You, the Vatican's charming photo-swapping app - 13,672 to 4,879. Could be a bad sign, that."
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TVGB: "During a recent interview, executive producer Jonathan Knight said EA's hellish Dante's Inferno may be seeing post-release downloadable content."
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Critics of upcoming hack and slash Dante's Inferno's treatment of source material The Divine Comedy are missing the point, Visceral Games has said.

Speaking to VideoGamer.com, executive producer Jonathan Knight called the 700-year-old Italian poem on which the game is loosely based a "fantasy", and described it as "basically Chronicles of Narnia or Lord of the Rings".
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New Dante's Inferno video : "Dante's Heresy" has been revealed through the fake website "Mass : We Pray", promoting a false Christian game.
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Back in February at New York Toy Fair 09, NECA revealed an early prototype of its Dante's Inferno action figure. Now they've unveiled the final product, shipping to retail in December, showing us four new pictures of it.
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TVGB: "Dante's Inferno GameStop pre-orders come with a collectible figurine of Dante wielding his spine-tingling scythe (image below), EA tweets. Once the game releases in February, the figurine will be available for in-store pickups alongside the game and will be shipped with the game for online orders."
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