Publisher and developer Electronic Arts has done a lot of crazy stunts to promote Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno. It has been one of the most entertaining marketing campaigns in recent memory. From the controversial “Sin to Win” contest to the fake Christian protest, EA went all out to make sure that the game garnered plenty [...]

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Dante’s Inferno is a straight up God of War rip off. Good or bad, there’s no way to sugar coat it. From the orbs, chests and cranks to the style and substance, if you close your eyes while playing the game, you’d swear you were playing God of War. Well, almost. You see, God of [...]

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“Go to hell.”
For months, publisher and developer Electronic Arts has been pounding that line into our skulls in an effort to promote Visceral Games’ Dante’s Inferno.  Similar to Dead Space, the controversial third-person action game has been the beneficiary of some serious marketing muscle.  The absurd promotional campaign has been highly entertaining, and EA deserves [...]

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God of War 3 is in trouble.
Six months ago, if you would have said that God of War 3 might not set new sales records in April, I probably would have taken your head off with a shotgun.  Obviously, you were a replicant trying to blend in with human society, and your faulty preprogrammed knowledge [...]

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This week Jax, Lesley and Harley are back with SG Pink Episode 53. The girls discuss “Blame Doc Day”, stealing/sharing ideas from SG Brown, Frawlz invading Community Vibes, sex robots, Pacman CE, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, Bayonetta bringing the sexy, Dante’s Inferno, Blast Proximity, Jax’s “Good” Advice and a bunch of other stuff as [...]

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Is it possible that we might actually have something posted to our front page prior to the never-sleeping-always-on news aggregator of Doom Kotaku?
Well, if that’s the case, I’ll make this short; EA has released a developer diary/preview of Dante’s Inferno’s “Violence” circle of Hell within the game.  I’ll be honest; the more I see about [...]

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Sunufabeeoch.
If you haven’t heard, the wackjobs over the PR department responsible for Dante’s Inferno got me.
My article last week about a Boston-based developer coming up with the “church simulator” Mass: We Pray scheduled to release on Easter 2010, was nothing more than yet another elaborate viral marketing ad for the upcoming release of Dante’s Inferno.
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Electronic Arts’ promotional blitz for Dante’s Inferno continues with a look at the sixth circle of hell: Heresy. It’s Satan’s backyard, according to lead designer Steve Desilets, who proclaims: “You’re now in the sh**.” As you’ll see, it is indeed quite brutal, and certainly not for children, South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson, or the [...]

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Visceral Games’ upcoming adaptation of Dante’s Inferno has been a lightning rod for controversy. Since the official reveal, it’s been one big ado after another. The game has been decried as an affront to the revered poem, and Electronic Arts’ marketing tactics haven’t been safe from scrutiny either. Of particular note was the ill-advised “Sin [...]

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Electronic Arts registered the trademark for Jack the Ripper for “computer game software” last week.  In July, Visceral Games, the folks that are bringing you the epically ridiculous Dante’s Inferno, announced they would be putting a game together based on the Jack the Ripper case.
Visceral: (adjective) not intellectual; dealing with crude or elemental emotions, raw
Should [...]

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