Someone’s Going to Hell for This
So you know that Dante’s Inferno game from EA? The one where Dante is a massive, scythe-wielding warrior back from the Crusades who has to kill everybody in hell (again, I guess) in order to win back his girlfriend, while is almost but not entirely unlike the actual Inferno by Dante Aligheri? Yeah. As a literature nerd, I find it annoying, but it’s a videogame. I haven’t lost any sleep over it. Until now.
 |
?Wired dug up this cover to a new edition of Dante’s Inferno, using the art from the game, and I’m pretty sure this is the worst fucking thing ever. As much as I try to tell myself it’s just a trick to get dumb kids to accidentally try one of the highlights of Western literature, I can’t help but be furious at the base, blatant misrepresentation and utter lack of integrity necessary to make this thing. I guess the horrible people who buy them can put it next to the Twilight-inspired Wuthering Heights book. ARRRRGGGH.
About The Author
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.