Visceral Games Invades Comic-Con with Special EditionPreview
Issue Giveaways, Limited Edition Signings, the World Premiere Trailer
for the Starz Media Animated Feature and More
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jul 20, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Visceral Games(TM), a studio of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) today
announced a collaboration with DC Comics/WildStorm to develop a comic
book mini-series based on Dante's Inferno(TM), EA's video game
adaptation of part one of "The Divine Comedy." The comic will
make its world debut at Comic-Con International in San Diego from July
23 - 26. Also at the show, Visceral Games(TM) and Starz Media will screen
the world premiere trailer of the "Dante's Inferno" animated
feature, which will be released on home entertainment platforms
day-and-date with the EA game in 2010. These two brand extension
projects are based on EA's adaptation, telling Dante's epic story from a
fresh, contemporary perspective and further exposing the classic to an
ever wider pop culture audience.
A special "Issue 0" preview edition of the Dante's Inferno comic
will be given away at Comic-Con International 2009 in San Diego next
week July 23rd through July 26th at the EA (Booth
#5213) and DC Comics (Booth #1915) booths. The game will also be
featured at the following events during the show:
- "Go to Hell With Dante's Inferno"Panel - EA,
DC/WildStorm and Starz Media present a panel discussion about how each
group has translated the various aspects of "The Divine Comedy" into a
video game, a comic series, and an animated feature. Find out from the
creative minds behind each adaptation, where they were faithful and
where they invented and get a peek at EA's game in development, and be
among the first to watch the world premier trailer for the animated
feature "Dante's Inferno" co-produced by EA and Starz Media's Film
Roman animation studio. The panel is at 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM on
Thursday, July 23rd in Room 8.
- Dante's Inferno Comic Preview Issue Signings -
Artist Diego Latorre and writer Christos Gage will be at the DC Comics
booth signing free copies of the Dante's Inferno comic preview issue. The
signings will take place at 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM on Friday and Saturday
and at Christos Gage will be signing them at the EA booth on Thursday
from 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM.
- Dante's Inferno Limited Edition Lithograph Signing
- Diego Latorre has created a special, limited edition lithograph
exclusively for Comic-Con, with only 750 copies available. He will be
signing these copies at the EA Booth. These signings will take
place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Play the Dante's Inferno Game - One of 2010's most
highly anticipated action-adventure games will be playable for all
show attendees at the EA booth during all exhibition hours!
Illustrated by Diego Latorre (The Incredible Hulk) and written by
Christos Gage (X-Men/Spider-Man, Wildcats) the Dante's
Inferno six-issue comic miniseries will go on sale beginning in
December 2009. Created by Visceral Games, Dante's Inferno is set
in the poem's vividly imagined nine circles of hell - limbo, lust,
gluttony, greed, anger, violence, heresy, fraud and treachery. Players
take Dante on an epic descent through hell, battling their way through a
terrifying gauntlet of demons to reclaim the soul of his beloved
Beatrice. The Dante's Inferno comic will highlight the
action-packed moments in the game, and will also deliver more
perspective on Beatrice's experience, adding more depth to the game's
story and exploring more of the poem's dramatic depiction of the
underworld.
"Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy" is an incredibly rich
piece of source material. It is a literary classic teeming with demons,
monsters, danger and doom. It is the perfect backdrop to our
action-adventure story," said Jonathan Knight, executive producer of Dante's
Inferno. "We are extremely excited to be working with great partners
like WildStorm and Starz Media to expand the story and deliver our
adaptation to other powerful media."
"When Christos and I saw the early gameplay demo of the game, our jaws
just hit the floor," said Hank Kanalz, Vice President and General
Manager, WildStorm. "The nature of this game, as well as the original
work, inspired WildStorm to take a unique approach in the creative.
Diego Latorre's art is outstanding and atypical for a game-based comic.
EA has really set the bar high, and we strive to achieve or surpass the
mark with this book."
EA's Dante's Inferno will be in stores in 2010 for the Xbox 360(R)
videogame and entertainment system, the PLAYSTATION(R)3 computer
entertainment system and the PSP(R) (Sony PlayStation(R) Portable). The game
has not yet been rated by the ESRB or PEGI. For more information about
EA's Dante's Inferno, please visit www.dantesinferno.com
and follow the Dante's Inferno team at Visceral Games on Twitter
at www.twitter.com/danteteam.
About Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts Inc. (EA), headquartered in Redwood City, California, is
a leading global interactive entertainment software company. Founded in
1982, the Company develops, publishes, and distributes interactive
software worldwide for video game systems, personal computers, wireless
devices and the Internet. Electronic Arts markets its products under
four brand names: EATM, EA SPORTSTM, EA MobileTM
and POGOTM. In fiscal 2009, EA posted GAAP net revenue of
$4.2 billion and had 31 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.
About DC Comics
DC Comics, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, is the largest
English-language publisher of comics in the world and home to such
iconic characters as Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Sandman.
These DC super heroes and others have starred in comic books, movies,
television series (both animated and live-action) and cyberspace,
thrilling audiences of all ages for generations. DC Comics' Web site is
located at www.dccomics.com.
About Starz Media
Starz Media, LLC, is a programming production and distribution company
operating worldwide. It includes the Film Roman, Anchor Bay
Entertainment, and Manga Entertainment brands. Its units create animated
and live-action programming -- including theatrical films -- and
programming created under contract for other media companies. It
distributes that programming, and programming acquired from outside
producers, through home video retailers, theaters, broadcasters, ad
supported and premium television channels, and Internet and wireless
video distributors in the US and internationally. Starz Media (www.starzmedia.com)
is a controlled subsidiary of Liberty Media Corporation attributed to
the Liberty Capital Group.
EA, EA SPORTS, EA Mobile, POGO, Visceral Games, Dante's Inferno and Dead
Space are trademarks or registered trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in
the U.S and/or other countries. Microsoft, Xbox and Xbox 360 are either
trademarks or registered trademarks of the Microsoft group of companies.
"PLAYSTATION", "PSP" and "PlayStation" are registered trademarks of Sony
Computer Entertainment Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
SOURCE: Electronic Arts Inc.
EA Games Label
Andrew Wong, 650-628-2781
Sr. PR Manager
anwong@ea.com
Tammy Schachter, 650-628-7223
Sr. Director of PR
tschachter@ea.com
or
DC Comics
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Publicist
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