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Video game violence with a moral

Where do villainous video game avatars go when they die?

With any justice, to Dante’s Inferno, a forthcoming game based on the 14th-century epic poem.

The Wired blog notes that the project “stands in a rather awkward place. The source material is a treasured piece of culture, yes, but it’s far less likely to incite fanboy wrath than would a videogame adaptation of a contemporary movie or comic book series. Liberal arts majors might be shocked to find Dante morphed into a hypermasculine action hero. Other people won’t care.”


(Hat tip: American Papist)

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