Citings & Sightings of Dante's Works in Contemporary Culture
“The City of Sin is embodied in Dante’s Hotel and Casino, which reaches out to a more adult audience with its gothic theme. Its opening is planned for the end of the year.” —Rainbow Six Vegas, Ubisoft Montreal, July 3, 2010 (retrieved February 21, 2024)
Developed and published by Digital Extremes, Warframe is a free role-playing online game based on a league of ancient warriors set to defeat enemy forces. Recently, this game has been updated to feature Dante himself in the Dante Unbound upgrade.
“Described as the ‘master of reality’s pages,’ Dante is the star of the Dante Unbound update, and has been created with the ‘classic-MMO caster classes’ in mind. He comes equipped with his own Exalted Weapon, called Noctua, and Warframe 56 is capable of destroying his enemies by ‘pelting them with spectral pages and covering them in countless cursed paper cuts.'” — Jakob Barnes, “The New Warframe Is Here, and He’s Perfect”, PCGames, January 26, 2024.
Contributor Savannah Mikus comments, “Dante’s Inferno – The Game. An anime style visual novel game. This game was created by ‘LIAR’ a group of four students: Vee, Lightneng, Saphire, and R. The game was posted online on Ren’Py Games for the public on June 3, 2015.”
The creators describe their game as follows: “Based off the classic, Dante’s Inferno by Dante Alighieri, a group of four classmates created a visual novel in a modern setting for the story to provide easier understanding of the book. It is for-fun adventure we did for class, but since we put so much work into it, we decided to post it to the public too!” — Ren’Py Games
See Ren’Py Games for more information and/or to download the game.
Contributed by Savannah Mikus (Florida State University BA ’20, MA ’22)
“Dante, torn between heaven and hell and between good and evil, must collect the heavenly Soul Jewels to determine his place in the hereafter, along the way Demons will try and thwart Dante by destroying the landscape of purgatory making it impossible to collect the Soul Jewels, but there is good on his side in the form of Cherubs that will lend a hand placing power-ups and special items to help him in his task.
Will the forces of good win out and lay open the gates to heaven? or will the Denizens of Hell, the vile Demons strike back and force Dante to a Millennia of Torment?, Dante’s fate is in your hands, do not fail him.
Fully Optimized for the iphone 3G and ipod touch, Dante’s Conundrum is a fast paced fun filled arcade style puzzle game that will provide hours of not stop action and fun pushing reflexes and mental prowess to the limit, enjoy dazzling graphics and multiple levels of play with the upgraded version or play the first level for free.” —http://mobile.e-axis.com/dante/ (retrieved July 22, 2009)
Contributed by Patrick Molloy
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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.
