Electronic Arts announced today that EA Redwood Shores, the studio behind the hit horror game Dead Space, is working on another original property, based on the medieval epic poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. The dark fiction gave birth to the Tuscan Italian dialect and is widely considered the work that has defined the western world's contemporary conception of hell and purgatory. The poem tells the tale of Dante who journeys through the twisted, menacing nine circles of hell in pursuit of his beloved Beatrice. Dante's tortured and tormented world is an ideal setting for this 3rd person action and adventure of a video game, Dante's Inferno.

Written in the 14th Century, The Divine Comedy was published and read aloud in Italian (unlike the Bible), thereby making the poem accessible to the mass public. The poem delivers a striking and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife and the punishments of hell. In part one, known as Dante's Inferno, Dante traverses all nine circles of hell; limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, wrath, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery.

PlayStation Home Community Manager TedTheDog is keeping us updated on the current situation regarding the launch of PlayStation Home, which was meant to happen a few hours ago although technical problems have stopped this.

In a disappointing move, Microsoft has decided to disable the online co-op features of the Resident Evil 5 demo to those of us that aren't living in Japan.

The Resident Evil 5 demo was intended for use in Japan only, although people living in other parts of the world have been downloading it by creating a Japanese account, but the online co-op function won't be playable as Microsoft has blocked the IPs for people living outside of this region.

Sony Computer Entertainment today announced that its highly anticipated PlayStation Home beta service for the PlayStation 3 will be available to all PS3 users around the globe on December 11th, 2008.

PlayStation Home is a 3D social gaming community available on PS3 that allows users to interact, communicate and share gaming experiences. By leveraging the power of PS3, PlayStation Home delivers overwhelming visual graphics and rich gaming social experiences. Within PlayStation Home, users can create and customize their own unique avatars and explore the virtual community in real time where they can communicate freely through text or voice chat.

Sony Computer Entertainment confirmed this morning that the PlayStation division is currently under review, as the company is reviewing all sections of the business as it has been affected by the current economic downturn.

"In order to stay competitive in the accelerating global network environment, we will always carefully review and make structural changes, if necessary, in order to further expand and strengthen the PlayStation business around the world," said Sony in a statement issued to Gameindustry.biz.

8000 jobs were cut this morning, with an announcement that the company would be reducing investment in manufacturing. The company also has plans to downsize or withdraw from "unprofitable or non-core businesses."

Rockstar has revealed on its official forums that the upcoming PC patch for Grand Theft Auto 4, that will makes various fixes to the problems that have been reported, is finished and is being certified by Microsoft before release.

"We are working on making a patch available in the next few days. Since Grand Theft Auto IV is a Games For Windows - Live game the patch must be certified by Microsoft before release. The patch is already at Microsoft and we expect a speedy approval," said the Rockstar representative.

North American PlayStation Network users have been able to purchase Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer since December 4th, and European users have been waiting to find out when it will be made available.

According to a post on the official forums, Soldner-x will be released in PAL regions on December 18th, which means we will not have to wait long until we can give this shooter a run through.

The Darksiders: Wrath of War image gallery has been updated with ten new screenshots.

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In an Interview with MTV News Sigourney Weaver revealed that she would like to be part of a "high quality" Ghostbusters game, although she hasn't been asked to help with the voice of Dana Barrett in the upcoming Ghostbusters game, which was recently acquired by Atari.

"I'd be part of one that was high quality," said Weaver. "I don't think they even asked me to be a part of the (new) 'Ghostbusters' one. If they did I don't remember it and maybe I was just busy."

Konami could have revealed an Xbox 360 version of Metal Gear Solid, this is according to a new flash page that appears on Konami's Kojima Productions website. Green text is shown that says "A Next Metal Gear Is..." along with a symbol that looks very much like the Xbox 360 power logo.