Kotaku: Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno Isn't Metal Gear Solid. It's the Japanese Police.

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:00:00 EST

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If you live in Japan, you've seen Dante Carver on television. The American-born actor plays "Onii-chan" or "brother" in a series of mobile phone commercials that star a dog as a family patriarch, actress Aya Ueto, and Shigesato Itoi's wife. More »

Are You There God? It's-a Me, Mario

Joshua Wise — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:00 EST

Few video games deal with the touchy subject of religion seriously. When they do, they often deal with the more fantastical outlying bits of different faith systems, like last year's Dante's Inferno, or the upcoming El Shaddai: Rise of the Metatron. Rarely do we see games that hunker down and deal with real questions of faith and the questions that surround faith. More »

Painful Laughter, Killing Castro And My Other Favorite Gaming Moments of 2010

Brian Crecente — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 18:20:00 EST

Suicide, laughter, and the believed death of a communist leader. These were just some of my ten favorite moments from my favorite games of 2010. (Spoilers) More »

Dante's Inferno: The Trials of St. Lucia Review: Totilo's Inferno

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 06 May 2010 16:00:00 EDT

The new expansion to Dante's Inferno was partially developed by me. And one of you — one of you how can't appreciate sublime game design — gave my contribution one out of five stars. More »

How To Create Your Personal Hell In Dante's Inferno

Mike Fahey — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Dante's Inferno's Trials of St. Lucia downloadable content is due out this Thursday, giving players the opportunity to create and share their own hellish combat levels. Here's how that works. More »

The Accidental Preacher

Brian Crecente — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:20:00 EDT

Traditionally, historically, video games and religion don't mix. More »

Religion in Games: Less a Leap of Faith, More a Suspension of Belief

Owen Good — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:00:00 EDT

I've no idea why, but it seems no accident that the week before Easter I went back to start over the original Assassin's Creed, the only game I've ever played that is set in the Holy Land. More »

Dante's Inferno's Trials Of St. Lucia Gives You Wings

Mike Fahey — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:30:41 EDT

Dante's guardian angel and Christian martyr St. Lucia gets her game on in these screens from the upcoming Trails of St. Lucia downloadable content for Dante's Inferno. More »

Amazon Rolls Out The PlayStation 3 Deals All Day Long

Mike Fahey — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:20:01 EDT

Dante's Inferno at $38.99 might not be that great of a PlayStation 3 game deal, but if you hurry you can score Tekken 6 for $17.99 as part of a day filled with PS3 deals on Amazon.com. More »

A Bit More Info On The Makers of Dead Space's Next, Mysterious Game

Brian Crecente — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:40:00 EDT

Late last year two unearthed trademark applications seemed to lend credence to rumors that Electronic Arts was working on a game based on Jack the Ripper, but we haven't heard anything new about the game since... until now. More »

Dante's Inferno Dark Forest Micro-Review: Much Power, Little Point

Stephen Totilo — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 19:00:49 EDT

For five bucks, a Dante's Inferno player can have the most powerful Dante in video games. More »

One Step Closer To The Mathematical Formula For Fun

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 16:20:08 EDT

No, in this post you will not find the algorithm of entertainment, the theorem of thrills or the postulate of pleasure. But you will find details on how one unlikely game may, accidentally, calculate fun. More »

The Newest Kotaku Podcast Completes Its Dark Descent To iTunes, Zune & More

Mike Fahey — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:00:00 EDT

Dante's Inferno senior producer Hans ten Cate joined our hosts, Brian Crecente and Stephen Totilo, in today's episode of Kotaku Talk Radio to discuss everything you need to know about descending into the darkest depths of hell. More »

Come Talk Dante's Inferno With the Developers

Brian Crecente — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EDT

Kotaku Talk Radio starts now with special guest Hans ten Cate, senior producer of Dante's Inferno. Call in! Ask questions! Listen Up! More »

Go To Hell With Today's Live Podcast

Brian Crecente — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:00:00 EDT

It's hump day, it's also St. Patrick's Day, but much more importantly, it's Kotaku Talk Radio day. Today we've got Hans ten Cate, senior producer, for Dante's Inferno. More »

Mario's Inferno Sticks It To EA's Marketing Team

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 00:30:00 EDT

Few trailers in recent memory have polarised gamers as much as EA's Dante's Inferno clip for the Super Bowl. Would you have liked it more if, say, Dante was not Dante, but Mario? More »

Dante's Inferno: Trials of St. Lucia Preview: Mod of War

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:00:33 EDT

In April, you can re-shape hell, or fly through it as a lady. And you can play through it with a friend, as co-op comes to this year's biggest God of War competitor. More »

A Listen To Dante's Inferno Lite

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:20:00 EST

Ever wonder what video game composers have to work with when creating those big sounds for big games? More »

It Wasn't God of War That Dante's Inferno Borrowed From

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:00:00 EST

During their Scoring Hell talk at the Game Developers Conference, the folks behind the sounds and music of Dante's Inferno boiled down their game to its essence: Donkey Kong upside down. More »

A Musical Journey Through Dante's Hell

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:00:00 EST

As I mentioned in my review of Dante's Hell, I loved the scoring and sound of Visceral's take on hell. More »

Scenes of Video Game Hell Invades San Fran Hotel

Brian Crecente — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:00:00 EST

Video game art folks will be taking over San Francisco's Hotel Des Arts, on Thursday, packing the five-floor boutique hotel with art from Dante's Inferno and inspired by other video games. More »

Castlevania: Lords Of Shadow - Belmont's Inferno

Mike Fahey — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:40:00 EST

This new batch of screenshots, concept art, and enemy renders for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow are lovely and all, but I can't help but think the game could use a tie-in with a revered work of religious fiction. More »

Ancient Poet Joins WWE Smackdown

Brian Crecente — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:00:00 EST

Apparently it's not enough that Dante Alighieri practically invented the Italian language and wrote an epic poem that solidified our views of Hell. Or that he's the star of his own video game. No, now he's a WWE wrestler too. More »

Visceral Games Has Some XBLA, PSN Games In The Works Too

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 18:40:00 EST

Fresh off the release of Dante's Inferno and with plenty of time between now Dead Space 2's release, developer Visceral Games has other unannounced titles in the works for Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network to keep them busy. More »

Dante's Inferno's Japanese Marketing Includes a Racial Twist

Brian Ashcraft — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 02:30:00 EST

"Look how EA is promoting its game Dante's Inferno in Japan," a tipster wrote. If only it was that simple. More »

Dante's Inferno & DC Universe Online: The Toys

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:30:00 EST

Here are some new pieces coming out of Toy Fair earlier in the week; the first statues based on Jim Lee's artwork for DC Universe Online, and a rather cranky-looking baby from Dante's Inferno. More »

Love In Hell: Dante's Inferno's Take on Romance

Brian Crecente — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:00:00 EST

While religion and an allegorical journey through a medieval hell remain the central themes of the video game adaption of Dante's Inferno, an exploration of love and lust and what separates the two is nearly as important in the game. More »

Key Bragging Stat: How Your Demo Did

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:00:29 EST

Word just hit from EA that their Battlefield: Bad Company 2 demo is "on pace to become the fastest downloaded demo in EA history." It has been downloaded to Xbox 360s and PS3s more than two million times. More »

Frankenreview: Dante's Inferno

Mike Fahey — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:30:00 EST

After going through a huge stack of reviews for our Dante's Inferno Frankenreview, I have determined that this game might have a few things in common with God of War. That, and Dante has no idea how to play Limbo. More »

Dante's Inferno Review: Big Ideas, Small Problems

Brian Crecente — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 16:00:00 EST

Dante Alighieri, real world 14th-century poet and cavalryman, is re-imagined as a love-struck crusader in this retelling of the poet's greatest work. More »

Dante's Final Sin: Greed

Brian Crecente — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 02:00:01 EST

As seen inside the retail copy of Dante's Inferno for the Xbox 360. (Likely to be found in the PS3 version as well) More »

Shakespeare As Video Game Designer

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:00:39 EST

There's not much Shakespeare in video games, no major Hamlet games and only scattered hopes for a Macbeth one. The lead creator of Dante's Inferno thinks the writer himself, could have been a game design visionary. More »

Unsurprisingly, Dante's Inferno Not Available in Middle East

Owen Good — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:00:00 EST

Electronic Arts has elected not to offer Dante's Inferno for sale in the Middle East, for reasons that should probably be obvious. That makes three of the first four big action games for 2010 officially unavailable in that region. More »

Get Acquainted With Dante's Sins

Mike Fahey — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:20:00 EST

The latest Dante's Inferno trailer provides us with a quick recap of the sins of man - lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud, treachery, and using leetspeak. I might have made up one of those. More »

The Games You Won't Sell, The Games You Can't Sell

Stephen Totilo — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:40:08 EST

Buy a game. Play it. Decide whether to keep it or sell it back. That's the current cycle of a gamer's gaming life. In the near future, that third choice may evaporate. You may soon never sell a game again. More »

Latest Dante Stunt Buries ASCII Art In Our Source Code

Owen Good — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:20:00 EST

Checked the source code of our front page lately? We didn't think to until we got a tip. Dante's Inferno ASCII art is buried with in it - along with one of six clues to unlock some kind of download. More »

Catch Dante's Inferno's New Trailer Without Having To Watch The Super Bowl

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:30:00 EST

Having sorted out some problems over the use of the word "Hell", EA and Super Bowl broadcaster CBS have agreed that a trailer for Dante's Inferno can run during the game. This is that trailer. More »

Dante's Inferno Producer Ponders Macbeth: The Game

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:30:00 EST

Marc Ecko isn't the only one taken with the idea of making a video game based on William Shakespeare's Macbeth. Dante's Inferno executive producer Jonathan Knight also sees gaming possibilities in the Scottish tragedy. More »