April 22, 2009 05:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time  
EA Invites PSP Owners to Go to Hell

EA Redwood Shores’ Dante’s Inferno Coming to Sony’s PlayStation Portable Alongside PLAYSTATION 3 and Xbox 360 


REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that its highly anticipated action adventure game Dante’s InfernoTM will be coming to the PSP® (Sony PlayStation® Portable). Based on part one of Dante Alighieri’s classic, “The Divine Comedy,” EA’s Dante’s Inferno will also take players on an epic adventure through Dante’s famously mapped nine circles of hell. Dante’s Inferno will be available simultaneously for the PSP, the PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360® videogame and entertainment system next year. 

Dante’s Inferno for the PSP is being developed by EA’s award-winning EA Redwood Shores studio and Artificial Mind and Movement (A2M), based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

“Our team and the team at A2M are taking the vision for Dante’s Inferno and translating it directly to the PSP,” said Jonathan Knight, executive producer and creative director on Dante’s Inferno. “PSP owners can expect to get the same level of fast, responsive gameplay through all nine detailed and unique circles of hell we are aiming to achieve on the consoles.” 

Alighieri’s “Dante’s Inferno” is widely credited for being the work that has defined the western world’s contemporary conception of hell and purgatory. Just like the poem, players of EA’s 3rd person action adventure game will descend through all nine circles of hell: limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery, playing as Dante as they battle through a gauntlet of unimaginable evils, fighting to recapture the soul of his beloved Beatrice. 

Dante’s Inferno has not yet been rated by the ESRB or PEGI. For more information about Dante’s Inferno, please visit www.dantesinferno.com. 

About Electronic Arts 

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is the world's leading interactive entertainment software company. Founded in 1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, cellular handsets and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under four brand names: EA SPORTSTM, EATM, EA SPORTS Freestyle TM and POGOTM. In fiscal 2008, EA posted GAAP net revenue of $3.67 billion and had 27 titles that sold more than one million copies. EA's homepage and online game site is www.ea.com. More information about EA's products and full text of press releases can be found on the Internet at http://info.ea.com. 

EA, EA SPORTS, EA SPORTS FREESTYLE, POGO and Dante’s Inferno are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Microsoft, Xbox and Xbox 360 are trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies and are used under license from Microsoft. “PlayStation”, “PLAYSTATION” and “PSP” are registered trademarks of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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"EA’s confirmed a PSP version of Dante’s Inferno, slated to release later next year.

The project’s a combined effort between EA’s Redwood Shores studio and Artificial Mind and Movement in Canada.

We’ve just seen this in London. There’s an embargo on info for April 24."

http://www.vg247.com/2009/04/22/dantes-inferno-confirmed-for-psp/

OMG :D:D:D Thank you EA :D This is the best news bit of the day... hell even week for me :D

ive got a feeling this game is going to be crappy, since its making a good book look like devil may cry rip off.

Nice to see EA's award winning team developing the PSP version...   :)

Wow! PSP is having a blast! another game announcement.

And another one. Well, the PSP had God of War, so this is an obvious game for it to get.

Funny, because I'm a PSP owner, and I think EA should go to hell.

I'll get this game on PS3, if anything. If it's actually good, unlike the majority of crap that EA releases on a monthly basis.

Yes!it will be like another gow game on psp!1st day buy for me!

More info, I'll update the OP:

"EA’s confirmed a PSP version of Dante’s Inferno, slated to release later next year.

The project’s a combined effort between EA’s Redwood Shores studio and Artificial Mind and Movement in Canada.

We’ve just seen this in London. There’s an embargo on info for April 24."

Link - http://www.vg247.com/2009/04/22/dantes-inferno-confirmed-for-psp/