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Call of Duty: Black Ops Is the Most Pirated PC Game of 2010

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the most successful video game of the year, managing to sell a huge number of units since it was released at the beginning of November, but the record breaking doesn't stop here, as a new statistic shows that Black Ops is the most pirated PC game of the year. As the 2010 draws to a ...

29 December 2010
04:40 GMT

Visceral Games Working on Four New Games Besides Dead Space 2

EA is extremely confident in the Visceral Games team, as it has just unveiled that the California-based studio is working four new games, besides the upcoming Dead Space 2, which will hit at the beginning of next year.A few days ago, Visceral executive Zach Mumbach admitted that the studio isn't working on a seq...

18 October 2010
15:51 GMT

Visceral Games Isn't Working on Dante's Inferno Sequel, Yet

EA's Visceral Games studio is currently hard at work on completing Dead Space 2, but it has also released another game this year, in the shape of hack and slash title Dante's Inferno.When asked about the possibility of a sequel to the pretty popular title, Dead Space 2 associated producer Zach Mumbach revea...

13 October 2010
18:01 GMT

Dante's Inferno

A few strangely shaped bodies spring out of the ground. I take most of them out with a series of quick attacks and grab one with the same scythe Death used before I took it from him, after apparently killing Death itself (this happens in the first fifteen minutes of the game and is in the demo, so it's in no way...

5 March 2010
04:45 GMT

Dragon Age: Origins Has Satanic Influences

The Bulletin, an outlet, which describes itself as “Philadelphia's family newspaper,” has discovered that videogaming might be a fertile medium for the influence of Satan and printed a piece that advises readers to beware of the games that attack God and Christianity.The main evidence of the Satanic ...

4 March 2010
04:52 GMT

Weekend Reading: Kill the Demo, Standardize the Beta

On Monday, it was revealed that there were beta keys for StarCraft II, the real-time strategy title made by Blizzard, reselling on eBay for more than 300 dollars, sometimes packaged with entire Battle.net accounts and World of Warcraft characters.Sure, it's rare to see so much interest in the beta stage of a vid...

27 February 2010
10:51 GMT

EndWeekGame: February 26

It seems I am the only one holding up the gaming fort here at Softpedia this week and that means my gaming choices for the weekend are the only ones you'll be able to comment on. With BioShock 2 all wrapped up and with a new run through Mass Effect 2 probably on the waiting list until the launch of new and signi...

26 February 2010
17:51 GMT

Visceral Determined to Put Out One Game Every Year

Electronic Arts managed to cut its losses in 2009 and announced plans to put out less videogames in 2010 while aiming for higher quality. And it seems the publisher is allowing subsidiary studios to adopt their own philosophies when it comes to the number of titles they plan to put out.Where BioWare launched two bloc...

24 February 2010
02:54 GMT

Mass Effect 2 Conquers Gaming Space for a Second Week

Mass Effect 2, the space opera role playing game with cover-based shooter elements that BioWare created and Electronic Arts published, sits in the number one spot of the United Kingdom videogame chart for the second week in a row, showing that the decisions made by the developers to streamline the action and deliver ...

11 February 2010
14:21 GMT

60 FPS Is Essential for Dante's Inferno

Does an action adventure title really need to run at 60 FPS in order to be attractive to gamers? The people at Visceral, those who are creating the upcoming Dante's Inferno, are saying “yes” and the need for a constant and fluid frame rate is so great that the company committed to reaching 60 FPS and...

8 February 2010
13:31 GMT

The Trials of St. Lucia DLC Trailer for Dante's Inferno Has Been Leaked

Dante's Inferno may be just a few days away from its official launch, but that doesn't mean that it's all out of secrets or that it has no surprises left for us. It looks like the game will feature a DLC that will become available on April 29, and while that was something to be expected of it, since DL...

3 February 2010
04:10 GMT

Dante's Inferno Dark Forest Will Also Come to the Xbox 360

Visceral, the developers of Dante's Inferno, and Electronic Arts, the publisher, have announced that the Dark Forest downloadable content will also be offered for those who pick up the game on the Xbox 360 home gaming console from Microsoft. Initially, the extra content was only talked about for the PlayStation ...

29 January 2010
13:11 GMT

Electronic Arts Comeback Might Take Longer

Electronic Arts is not in great shape. It is slimming down as a company, with 1,500 employees on their way out until April 2010 and is reducing the number of videogames it plans to release during the coming year.But there are also positive elements. The entity is seeking to expand into more casual social gaming title...

12 January 2010
13:31 GMT

Dante's Inferno – To Demo Hell and Back

Dante's Inferno is one of the titles Electronic Arts is releasing in early 2010 on multiple gaming platforms, following all the controversy and the discussions after the announcement of the title, which is based on poet Dante's Divine Comedy. Now, the videogame has a demo up on Xbox Live and on the PlayStat...

6 January 2010
17:51 GMT

Tribulation Knights, the Christian Game Will Be Released in 2010

We may see some religious groups complaining about video games and violence, but it looks like, if Christian Rock can exist, then so can Christian Video Games. While most of your minds just flew with the speed of light to Dante's Inferno and its Mass: We Pray, it looks like this isn't just some publicity st...

30 December 2009
13:01 GMT

The ESRB Looks at Dante's Inferno

Right from the beginning, Dante's Inferno announced itself as a game that wouldn't shy away from graphics or explicit content. After all, the studio behind the title is Visceral Games, and its name reflects very well its mentality, as we've already seen in Dead Space. Across several developers' di...

22 December 2009
05:44 GMT

When Hell Is Over, Dante Could Move Up and Siege the Heavens

While the story obviously has two more parts, it's not really set in stone that Dante's Inferno will be part of a trilogy. Theoretically, is would be very hard to make a sequel to the game, considering that the Purgatory and Paradise would have to be the next settings for it, but then again, from what the d...

15 December 2009
06:25 GMT

Dante's Inferno Features Dead Space Content

As the release date is closing in fast, Electronic Arts and Visceral Games are beginning to pour more and more attention into Dante's Inferno. Just Friday, we saw that the game got its Divine Edition, with the PlayStation 3 getting a lot more out of the deal than its fellow Xbox 360. Now, the title has received ...

14 December 2009
03:53 GMT

The Divine Edition of Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno is just two months away from being released and Electronic Arts is really revving up the sin counter. We already saw some pretty publicity stunts, like the Mass: We Pray game, and now the publisher is planting some jealousy and dissent amongst gamers. According to Yahoo Finance, a special edition...

11 December 2009
04:38 GMT

Dante's Inferno Gets the Gates of Hell Demo

With the recent killing spree started by Electronic Arts with its over 1,500 employees and at least one studio shut down, Pandemic, the publisher, continued its policy of “whatever it took” that we saw with the promoting of Dante's Inferno. The game has seen some devious publicity, and pretty much bl...

2 December 2009
05:27 GMT

Monster's Ball Writer Works on Dante's Inferno

Electronic Arts, as the publisher, and Visceral Games, as the developer, have announced that they have hired Will Rokos as the writer who will shape the narrative of the upcoming Dante's Inferno. Rokos is an Academy Award nominee for the original screenplay of Monster's Ball in 2001 and his main task in the...

13 October 2009
03:25 GMT

Jack the Ripper Could Become a Misunderstood Superhero

Yesterday, news of a Jack the Ripper game began to surface. According to Superannuation, a trademark filing was spotted, which covers the name of “the Ripper” in relation to entertainment services, movie production and games. Older rumors started by the Los Angeles Times back in July regarding a possible ...

8 October 2009
03:58 GMT

Jack the Ripper Could Be the Next Title for Visceral Games

Visceral Games may be adding the last-minute touches to Dante's Inferno but it is already thinking of the future. Besides the Dead Space 2 project that was revealed last week through a job listing made by the developer, the company has another trick up its sleeve. This week signs of a new game have emerged, as t...

7 October 2009
08:54 GMT

'A Christmas Carol' Will Be Turned into a Game

Games have started to tap into a brand-new source of inspiration. With Dante's Inferno bringing to life Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and probably proving to be a huge hit, it seems developers are willing to take things further. Charles Dickens and his "A Christmas Carol" were chosen as the foundations fo...

7 October 2009
06:51 GMT

Dante's Inferno Advertised with Real Cash

Dante's Inferno is an upcoming videogame partly based on the epic poem The Divine Comedy written by Durante degli Alighieri. One of the main elements of Hell as envisioned by the poet is a segmentation of those condemned related to the sins they committed.In an effort to promote the videogame, the good people wo...

15 September 2009
05:09 GMT

Dante's Inferno Coming in February

Electronic Arts doesn't have the best of reputations in the gaming industry as it exploited many of its franchises through yearly installments for quite some time, but, in recent years, it has begun to invest in new projects that might generate even more money. One studio that has been a great source of new pro...

25 August 2009
13:11 GMT

No PC Version of Dante's Inferno Will Appear

Electronic Arts is one of the biggest companies involved in gaming, and it manages to ship a lot of new and interesting games on almost every platform conceivable. That is why, when its Visceral Games studio announced that it would be creating Dante's Inferno, a new property, based on the Dead Space engine, ever...

31 July 2009
02:23 GMT

Dead Space Devs Moving from EA to Activision

The gaming industry is a tough one, with people constantly moving from different studios to other companies, and large corporations want to do everything they can in order to get their hands on the brightest and most experienced talent. One recent example of corporate shift has been made by former Visceral Games bos...

23 July 2009
11:01 GMT

Analyst Says Electronic Arts Is Ripe for a Takeover

Electronic Arts was once considered the biggest videogame publisher in the world. Many saw it as a soulless entity focused on squeezing money out of sequels and as opposed to innovation. Now, the above description could be more suited to the new behemoth in town, Activision Blizzard, and Electronic Arts could even be...

28 May 2009
17:31 GMT

EA Presents Huge E3 Lineup of Playable Games

The gaming industry hasn't been on the receiving end of a lot of publicity lately, largely because most gatherings and conventions were held behind closed doors or only for accredited journalists. Now, with the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) starting next week, average gamers will once again have the chance ...

28 May 2009
02:58 GMT

Dead Space Developer Talks About New Projects

The whole economy is passing through a period of recession and a lot of companies are afraid to reveal new things or products, because people will largely go for the things they are accustomed to and know what they will get from them. Such is the case with titles, as sequels and new versions of historic IPs are alway...

8 May 2009
02:24 GMT

EA Redwood Shores Is Now Visceral Games

EA Redwood Shores isn't a very catchy name, to say the least, and the abbreviation, EARS, is even worse. That is why its parent company, Electronic Arts, has just announced that the studio behind the very successful Dead Space horror, survival shooter has been renamed Visceral Games. The name change was needed ...

6 May 2009
02:18 GMT

EA Brings Dante's Inferno to the PSP

The PSP is one of the most popular handheld video game consoles currently on the market, but a lot of the 50 million units sold haven't been attributed to the big title library, but to the other non-game features the device has, like music or video playback. However, it definitely seems that video games will ma...

23 April 2009
02:28 GMT

Dante's Inferno Also Gets Animated Movie Treatment

Electronic Arts is slowly but surely becoming an entertainment company, not limiting itself to gaming anymore but also branching out in the movie-making industry. It has now become a great strategy to create new types of media that will accompany a game's release, as was the case with Dead Space, which received ...

31 March 2009
11:01 GMT

New Details on Dante's Inferno Appear

Fresh new games aren't very numerous these days as more and more companies try to play it safe and develop on their famous franchises, which guarantee a profit, especially considering these financially troubled times. But while Electronic Arts has announced that it will release four new titles in its long runni...

11 February 2009
15:01 GMT

Dante’s Inferno Officially Unveiled

After quite a while since the rumors first started appearing, Electronic Arts announced that it was indeed working on a videogame called Dante’s Inferno based on the epic poem The Divine Comedy, written sometime in the XIV century by the renowned poet Dante Alighieri. Only the first part of the work, in which H...

17 December 2008
11:41 GMT

Electronic Arts to Develop Game Based on Dante's Inferno

Electronic Arts is definitely a busy company these days, shipping out a lot of great games which have been eagerly anticipated by fans, like Dead Space or Red Alert 3. While EA's holiday season lineup of games is very strong, possibly one of the best ones in a few years, it is looking into the future and already...

31 October 2008
04:06 GMT


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