Prior to '' Dante 's Inferno '' s release , in June 2009 , a protest began during E3 2009 in Los Angeles to oppose the game . Around 20 protesters , claiming to be from a church in Ventura County , held up signs that called the game sacrilegious and labeled it possibly insensitive to people 's beliefs . Protesters even went as far as calling EA the anti-christ . This led to EA being accused by many people of staging the fiasco to use it as a marketing hoax . A few days later , it was officially confirmed by EA spokesman Tammy Scachter that they had hired people to protest the game and that there was no actual protest . However , in the aftermath of this revelation , several Christian bloggers protested to this , calling it an " anti-Christian " stunt
E3 2009
E3 2009
Dante's Inferno (video game)