{"id":4881,"date":"2009-11-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"mass-we-pray-a-hoax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4881-mass-we-pray-a-hoax","title":{"rendered":"Mass: We Pray a hoax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The existence of a new religiously focused motion controlled game entitled &lsquo;Mass: We Pray&rsquo; has been proven to be an elaborate hoax for upcoming video game adaptation of Dante&rsquo;s Inferno.<\/p>\n<p>Last week<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/4855-Mass-Pray-religious-title-announced.html\" target=\"_self\"> MyGaming reported<\/a> the announcement of Mass: We Pray, a religiously based title which would supposedly allow families to worship from home using CROSS and the KNEELER motion controls.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been revealed that those who try to use the Mass: We Pray website are presented with a pop up message which reads: &#8220;He who betrays the beliefs of the Church blackens his soul with the sin of Heresy. A Mass not celebrated by ordained priest or on consecrated soil is naught but false ritual condemned by clergy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Users are then given options to watch &#8220;an Exclusive Dante&#8217;s Inferno Trailer&#8221; or &#8220;Damn thy Fellow Sinners to Hell&#8221; through a &#8220;Go To Hell&#8221; Facebook application.<\/p>\n<p>Publishers Electronic Arts have drawn heavy criticism from religious groups for the campaign. Earlier this year the company outraged Christians for staging a fake protest against Dante&#8217;s Inferno at Electronic Entertainment Expo. Actors held signs featuring phrases such as &#8220;Trade in your PlayStation for a PrayStation,&#8221; &#8220;Hell is not a game,&#8221; and &#8220;My high score is in Heaven.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although EA later apologised for the incident it seems that the publisher has found itself on the wrong side of religious groups once again. <br \/>Dante&rsquo;s Inferno, which is an action adventure title developed by Visceral Games, is due for release internationally in early February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EA on the wrong side of religious groups once again<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}