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“Great Moments in PC Gaming: Guiding Noobs Through a Co-Op Session”

October 21, 2020 By lsanchez

“We were all that noob at some point. I have fond memories of a friend convincing me to give Halo a shot in co-op, him playing Master Chief and me playing his buddy, ‘The Spartan Who Disappears During Cutscenes.’ The first time I tried Portal 2‘s multiplayer mode it was at a gaming bar with an engineering student who, even drunk, knew everything there was to know about thinking with portals. Being able to return these favors by acting as Virgil to someone else’s Dante—except instead of the nine circles of Hell, it’s Borderlands 2 or whatever—feels like paying the experiences forward, ensuring some kind of cosmic scale is balanced.”    –Jody Macgregor, PC Gamer, August 15, 2020

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Circles of Hell, Hell, Video Games, Virgil

Upcoming Animal Farm Video Game

October 20, 2020 By lsanchez

“Today is the 75th anniversary of the first publication of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, perhaps the most distressing book for a kid to pick from their parents’ shelves when looking for a nice story about horses. In celebration, an official video game adaptation was of Animal Farm has been announced [sic]. News of a beloved work of literature becoming a video game should inspired a wariness (thanks, Dante’s Inferno) but this one does sound promising.”    –Alice O’Connor, Rock Paper Shotgun, August 17, 2020

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2020, Authors, Books, Inferno, Literature, Video Games

“Dante’s Inferno” in Shadowrun

October 19, 2020 By lsanchez

“The club is styled after the allegory of the nine circles of hell as described in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, having nine dance floors with each floor going further down with each corresponding circle of hell. They also have a digital host with which offline members and online members can react with the aid of AR. The club’s digital menu is for simsense users and deliberately designed as a scroll, and the digital lounge is designed to simulate the feeling of live flames.”    —Shadowrun Wiki, February 2, 2015

Learn more about the Shadowrun series, first launched in 1989, here.

Categories: Consumer Goods, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 1989, Abandon All Hope, Art, Board Games, Circles of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Video Games

“I’m not Dante, and you’re not Vergilius” – Resident Evil: Revelations

October 18, 2020 By lsanchez

“You said yourself, ‘Abandon hope all ye who enter here.’ But I’m not Dante, and you’re not Vergilius.”

Learn more about Capcom’s 2012 video game Resident Evil: Revelations here.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2012, Abandon All Hope, Divine Comedy, Video Games, Virgil

The Gates of Hell – The Last Remnant

October 17, 2020 By lsanchez

“This boss is quite famous in the community, and for understandable reasons! It has many deadly attacks at its disposal, Blue Blazes hits an entire union, Hellfire hits all characters in range, and it can use either of these at the beginning and end of any turn, which will annihilate your morale bar.”    –Lemmy, YouTube, December 20, 2018

Learn more about Square Enix’s 2008 video game The Last Remnant here.

Categories: Consumer Goods
Tagged with: 2008, Gates of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Video Games

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Coggeshall, Elizabeth, and Arielle Saiber, eds. Dante Today: Citings and Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture. Website. Access date.

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