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Dante Returns to the Inferno, and Boy, Is He Pissed

Dante Returns to the Inferno, and Boy, Is He Pissed

By February 24, 2009 Video Games 0 Comment


I clearly missed a canto or two of Dante’s Inferno when I read it in college, because I just have no recollection of Dante grabbing a huge bone scythe and hacking through the damned. Mostly, I just remember him making fun of prominent 14th century Venetians that he didn’t like and talking too much about Beatrice. Of course, I joke — I know full well that EA is giving the literary masterpiece a God of War treatment, which would drive me crazy if it were a movie, but something I’m somehow okay with as a videogame. I seriously hope this causes more publishers to make brutal, incredibly violent adaptations of other works of literature, like Moby Dick or The Grapes of Wrath. Seriously, get the Joads some swords and guns and let them hack their way across America looking for work — I’m in, baby. (Via Kotaku)

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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.