Dante's Inferno Facebook App Now Available

Electronic Arts announced the release of the Go to Hell, a Facebook application inspired by Dante's Inferno, the upcoming game currently under development at EA Redwood Shores, the studio behind Dead Space. The application takes the poem's nine circles of hell and brings them into everyday life. With the click of a button, anyone can send everyone and everything to one of the nine circles of hell. Dante's Inferno is a third-person action adventure adaptation of the medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Players assume the role of Dante, who descends into Hell after returning home to find his beloved Beatrice murdered, with Lucifer seducing her soul into the underworld. Dante sets out on a rescue mission to save Beatrice, but he soon realizes he is also in Hell to face his own demons and ultimately to redeem himself. Players will take Dante through nine unique circles of Hell as mapped out and described by Alighieri: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery. Each circle will showcase its own distinct look, with demons, monsters, damned and geography that are crafted straight from the poem's vivid descriptions. Dante's Inferno will be available in North America beginning on February 9, 2010 and in Europe on February 12, 2010.