Quote: 'Controversy', 'EA' and 'Dante's Inferno' isn't a rare coupling of words these days, and the publisher's reinforced this un-holy trinity by sending US game reviewers cheques for $200 each.
The excuse is, of course, that EA is 'testing the greed' of journalists with a skeleton-laden wooden box, containing a $200 cheque. What it doesn't know is it's probably paying for the entire games media's God Of War III pre-orders.
"In Dante's Inferno, Greed is a two-headed beast," reads the included message. "Hoarding wealth feeds on beast and squandering it satiates the other. By cashing this check you succumb to avarice by harding filthy lucre, but by not cashing it, you waste it, and thereby surrender to prodigality. Make your choice and suffer the consequence for your sin. And scoff not, for consequences are imminent."
Kotaku definitely surrendered to prodigality with their cash. They could have given it to charity though. Our charity! | 
