EA announces 'Dante's Inferno' video game

Electronic Arts has announced that it is developing a video game based on the 14th Century epic poem Dante's Inferno.

EA Redwood Shores, the team behind Dead Space, will handle development duties, with the game taking the form of a third person action adventure.

Jonathan Knight, executive producer for Dante’s Inferno, said: "The time is right for the world of interactive entertainment to adapt this literary masterpiece, and to re-introduce Dante to an audience that, until now, may have been unfamiliar with the remarkable details of this great work of art."

Dante's Inferno tells the tale of Dante, who journeys through the nine circles of hell in pursuit of his love Beatrice. It is the first part of the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.