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EA working on Dante’s Inferno video game adaptation

Have you ever read a legendary and classic piece of literature and thought, “This would make a fantastic game!” Well guess what? EA obviously has. No, it’s not making a video game adaptation of Little Women. EA is going to be turning the first cantica of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy, Inferno, into a video game. Dante’s Inferno is best known for establishing the idea of nine circles of hell.

The Divine Comedy follows Dante after, at the age of 35, he was ready to stray from the moral path and, quite possibly, kill himself. He is rescued by Virgil, who has come to show Dante through the afterlife at the behest of Beatrice, a departed woman Dante had admired from afar. Virgil guides Dante through Hell in Inferno and through Purgatory in Purgatorio, and Beatrice takes Dante through Heaven in Paradiso.

It seems like EA may take some liberties with the story, if the official press release (viewable at MarketWatch) is any indication. In it, it states that Dante is undertaking his journey through hell on a quest to find Beatrice. While reaching Beatrice is one of Dante’s goals in the original story, the overall theme of The Divine Comedy is more a journey of revelation and redemption…

Alone in the Dark gets heated up for PS3 release

While Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, and PC Alone in the Dark fans have all been enjoying the latest entry in the series since June 2008, it’ll finally be time for PlayStation 3 owners to get their scare on.

The already delayed PS3 version of the newest chapter in the Alone in the Dark series has received quite a few of improvements and has been given its own subtitle: Alone in the Dark: Inferno.

While storyline bits remain unchanged, Eden Games has promised a wealth of gameplay improvements based on the criticisms of the previous versions. These new improvements include…