If you haven't been keeping up on EA's marketing campaign for Dante's Inferno (what do you mean you have better things to do?), they've been working their way through the circles of hell in some clever, less-than-clever, and downright horrible ways.

In what I guess would be 'Limbo', at E3 earlier this year they hired people to stage a fake protest of the game in the name of the church. I'm assuming this was "Limbo" because this particular marketing stunt must forever exist where it can view good marketing stunts, and yet never attain that status.

Then at Comic Con, they gave away "a night with a hot girl" in the name of Lust. The task was to "commit acts of lust" towards the booth babes. I shouldn't need to tell you why asking that of the type of crowd at Comic Con is a horrible idea.

For Gluttony I've been told they sent people cake... not terribly offensive, but not terribly creative either.

For the fourth level of hell, the Hoarders and the Wasteful, they really shined. They sent journalists a $200 check, and charged them with either cashing it, thus hoarding the wealth or throwing it away, thus wasting it.

They've got five more circles of hell with which to strut their promotional stuff. I will give it to them that it certainly looks like it's turning out to be an entertaining project, despite all of the (understandable) liberties they've needed to take with Alighieri's work to make a video game out of it.

I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 1000. If you guess correctly, and email said guess in the subject line to cad.contest (at) gmail.com, you'll win a copy of Ghosthunt: The Complete Series boxed set on DVD and Ghosthunting Texas: America's Haunted Road Trip, a book on the investigation of paranormal activities, all courtesy of Funimation!

Contest ends on September 14th, at which point if nobody has guessed the correct number, the prize will go to the closest guess. One entry per person, multiple entries will be disqualified.

We've closed guild invites for the time being. We grew incredibly large, incredibly fast (over 400 active members at the moment) and we want to take some time let the guild 'gel', figure out who will remain active, and find a happy medium for managing a guild this size.

We'll post an announcement down the road when we re-open guild invites, and thank you all for your tremendous interest in being a part of our little family.