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Videogames

DexX and damnation

July 12, 2009

James “DexX” Dominguez, a regular commenter and occasional contributor to The Age blog ‘Screen Play’ was given his own weekly column a month or so back. This week’s entry is on Heaven and Hell in videogames. I like DexX’s style: he writes intelligently and manages not to get into the flame wars and trash-talking the [...]

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Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso… what’s next? E3.

July 2, 2009

That’s sort of a return to the bad part of the cycle. At least as far as jokes are concernced. The Melbourne Age‘s Jason Hill (of ‘Screen Play‘ blog fame) got a chance to talk to developers Visceral Games about their upcoming Dante’s Inferno game at the recent E3, and some new data were revealed. [...]

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Go to Hell. Do not pass Florence. Do not collect a free tour by Virgil.

June 25, 2009

More on the Dante’s Inferno videogame. The recent E3 exposition revealed more details of EA’s imagining of Hell (I would have picked ‘unionised labour’): this time Limbo and, according to different accounts, Lust or “Anger”. After going on about using the original names for each circle, what was wrong with good old ‘Wrath’?. We also [...]

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The 2nd Circle – Lust. For blood (and money).

April 9, 2009

Our coverage of upcoming EA game Dante’s Inferno continues. In an interview conducted by Hyper magazine with Dante producer Jonathan Knight, he reassured gamers that the development team were keeping as closely to the source material as possible. But to make a game out of it, they had to make Dante into a warrior. “The [...]

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Jesus Is My Guild Leader

April 9, 2009

(With apologies to Penny Arcade.) Seen the other day on Oceanic World of Warcraft realm Nagrand: “Efimovich: is recruiting now. We are a Christian guild dedicated to following Christ’s example and playing Warcraft as he would wish us to. We are looking for a Christian warlock and Christian shaman to join our 25 man Naxx [...]

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Dante May Cry

December 15, 2008

I’ve just heard about a videogame ‘based on’ Dante’s Inferno. You can watch the hilarious trailer here. My favourite bit is at the end when the protagonist – possibly meant to be Dante considering his crazy head-gear, but unrecognisable due to his rippling muscles and cold, glowing eyes – beats a zombie with a crucifix [...]

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