Rock, Paper, Shotgun

Hello everyone. I’ve been off at San Diego Comicon, having adventures. As usual, when you’re actually at the front, you don’t get any of the bigger picture, so I’ve been catching up. And getting a little annoyed. Ars Technica broke the story on EA’s SDCC Dante’s Inferno compo – and reproduced the full flyer with all the rules – but in short you’re encouraged to take a photo of yourself performing an act of lust with a boothbabe and send in a photo to win a night out with two hot girls and a limo. There’s a bit of a furore. George Broussard has cracked in accusing people of not having a sense of humour and being feminists and/or wimps.

I’m about to come over all feminist. And I don’t mean in a “spraying ejaculate all over Germaine Greer and snapping a quick photo in an attempt to win the competition way”.
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The last few seconds of this new Dante’s Inferno trailer made me snort my strawberry milk with their ludicrousness. We can only hope that some fragment of this kind silliness makes it into the actual game, and isn’t lost to the splendidly smoky cinematic. A few in-game screenshots have turned up too (as above, below) and are looking a bit God of War. Hmm.

And is it coming to PC? We’re not totally sure, possibly not, but as it’s from the Dead Space studio (which did come out on PC) it seems a fair bet. That it’s from the Dead Space chaps probably gives us a sense of the flavour of the thing too. Less literal poetry, more poetry in stomping on the face of a demon, forever. Or something.
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After a year in which EA have suffered more than even the usual number of curses by beleaguered gamers, it is perhaps only fitting that they’ve announced a game set in that disagreeably toasty place o’punishment that Bible-lovin’ folk reckon the rest of us will spend our final vacation in. There were rumours of a Dante’s Inferno game earlier in the year, and now we get the official announcement, website and trailer.
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