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The developers at Quantic Dream who have created Heavy Rain have announced that 3 million gamers have played the game so far and revealed some information on their performance and on their in-game choices.An infographic from the company shows that most players started very well and 85 percent of them managed to win t... |
7 December 2011
15:11 GMT |
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Sony and Quantic Dream have announced that a very special Heavy Rain: Director's Cut edition will be released tomorrow, in the U.S., that includes all sorts of extra content for the innovative game, as well as the special support for the PlayStation Move.Heavy Rain was definitely a novel game back when it was re... |
7 November 2011
05:01 GMT |
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Heavy Rain was one of the most innovative titles seen recently in the video game world, with its focus on character movements and emotions, but the creator behind the experience says that he is not interested in ever creating a sequel for it.Speaking with Developer as part of a bigger interview, David Cage, the leade... |
30 September 2011
00:41 GMT |
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Both developers and video game publishers have long talked about the evils of the used games market and now one leading studio has put a number on the losses that it has suffered because of sales of second hand game copies.Guillaume de Fondaumiere, who is the Chief Executive Officer of Quantic Dream, has told GamesIn... |
13 September 2011
17:21 GMT |
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David Cage, the creator of last year's Heavy Rain, has shared his thoughts on Rockstar and Team Bondi's upcoming L.A. Noire title, which will employ a new Motion Scan technology to reproduce accurate faces in the game.
Gaming technology is progressing by leaps and bounds these days, and David Cage, along... |
4 April 2011
02:30 GMT |
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Sony Computer Entertainment UK boss Ray Maguire has revealed that the company will continue to invest in different types of gaming experiences, like Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain, in order to push the boundaries of the PlayStation 3.
Today's gaming industry is slowly being divided into two extremes, with la... |
18 March 2011
04:10 GMT |
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The Best Game Award at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts game-oriented ceremony has been picked up by Mass Effect 2, the BioWare developed and Electronic Arts published science fiction mix between role-playing and action.
Heavy Rain, developed by Quantic Dream and published by Sony only on the PS3, h... |
17 March 2011
03:55 GMT |
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Heavy Rain creator David Cage has confessed that he wants to make a brand new title which would focus on the war genre, effectively being a much more emotional and serious take on the shooters of today, including Call of Duty.
Cage, who leads studio Quantic Dream, responsible for Heavy Rain or the older Indigo Pr... |
7 March 2011
15:51 GMT |
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Quantic Dream's David Cage, the creator of recent PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain, talked about the impact of the interactive drama, and how, in his mind, it has opened up the gaming medium for more different and mature experiences.Heavy Rain was a departure from regular game genres, as it was classified more... |
20 January 2011
14:21 GMT |
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Fable III, one of the biggest Xbox 360 exclusive titles to appear this fall season, owes a lot to two of the biggest titles made exclusively for the Xbox's biggest rival, the PlayStation 3, in the form of Heavy Rain and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.The console wars are always being waged by people representing eac... |
8 October 2010
02:51 GMT |
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The Witcher 2 will not have a traditional video game morality system, which rewards the player for good choices and punishes him for the bad ones, says one of the developers working on it, with the game taking care to offer an experience that allows the gamer to identify with the main character and his views on the w... |
1 September 2010
05:14 GMT |
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Sony has shown off the first images of the Move powered edition of Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain which is now set to be released before this year's Christmas rolls around. The game is getting a new control scheme that allows players who purchase the Move motion tracking system to control the characters more in... |
11 August 2010
03:41 GMT |
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In a ceremony at the Hilton Metropole Hotel in Brighton Develop hosted its video game oriented awards, which reward the European gaming industry and the products and creators that represent it worldwide. The big winner of the night was the United Kingdom video game industry, which picked up most of the awards handed ... |
15 July 2010
03:13 GMT |
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Heavy Rain was one of the big video game releases of 2010. The game arrived exclusively on the PlayStation 3 from Sony and was set to show off how action and movie like atmosphere can be seamlessly blended through the use of real life actors and a new control system for player. The game was well received by critics a... |
14 July 2010
15:11 GMT |
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Quantic Dream's next project is not called Horizon, as it has been previously reported. David Cage, co-CEO, has recently denied these rumors and said that the games his company was working would be announced when the time was right. He went on the quell all hope for a Heavy Rain sequel, saying that his aim was t... |
5 July 2010
06:45 GMT |
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David Cage, the head of Cuantic Dream, has recently declared that he didn't think more packs of downloadable content would be released for Heavy Rain. He added that implementing PlayStation Move support in the original game left his team no time for fully developing the other small expansions he had planned.Spea... |
2 July 2010
14:21 GMT |
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One of the most talked about launches of the year for the PlayStation 3 has been Heavy Rain, the game developed by Quantic Dream, which told a serial killer story through a complex web of interactions and action sequences, with every sequence allowing the player a variety of choices that determined the way the ending... |
3 June 2010
04:28 GMT |
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Quantic Dream's cinematic adventure game Heavy Rain will become a movie, as the production company Unique Features has recently acquired the screen rights. Unique Features is led by Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, former execs at New Line, a production outfit famous for Seven, a film with which Heavy Rain has ofte... |
20 May 2010
05:47 GMT |
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Final Fantasy XIII has not been very well received by reviewers, with most of them criticizing the complete linearity of the initial stages of the game, yet it still managed to have a great first week on sales, reaching the first position in the United Kingdom videogame chart. The Japanese role playing game developed... |
18 March 2010
14:01 GMT |
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The February NPD Group sales numbers for the United States are now out and the big winner when it comes to videogames is BioShock 2, the first person shooter with a story from Take Two and 2K Games, which managed to top the sales chart with 562,900 units moved to the players eager for a return trip to Rapture and its... |
12 March 2010
04:44 GMT |
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As expected, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts has taken over the top position of the United Kingdom videogame chart. The new first person shooter starring the capable yet humorous cast of the B Company has managed to win over reviewers with its well developed multiplayer co... |
11 March 2010
05:14 GMT |
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It seems that while a rebound in the videogame industry is still planned for 2010, it will probably not happen in February. The NPD Group is set to deliver the sales numbers for the United States market later this week and should point to a slowing down of sales when compared with the same period of 2009, which itsel... |
10 March 2010
03:43 GMT |
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Heavy Rain, the PlayStation 3 exclusive title published by Sony and developed by Quantic Dream, has managed to jump to the top of the United Kingdom videogame chart in its first week on sales, showing that players have an interest in a highly cinematic, narrative-based gaming experience.Heavy Rain tells the story of ... |
4 March 2010
05:34 GMT |
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The only console to see an actual sales growth in Japan has been the PlayStation 3, with the Sony device managing to sell almost 30% more units than during the previous seven-day period just as other gaming gadgets registered another drop. The fortunes of the Sony platform were improved by the launch of Resident Evil... |
1 March 2010
13:31 GMT |
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The first big PlayStation 3 exclusive of 2010 is Heavy Rain, a game set to be launched on February 23, promising an experience that goes beyond what videogames can offer at the moment. And one of the concepts the team tried out early in the development process was motion control as a way to guide the characters aroun... |
16 February 2010
16:21 GMT |
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Quantic Dream, as the developer, and Sony, as the publisher, have confirmed that a demo version of the PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavy Rain will be coming to the PSN on February 11, in order to allow gamers who are still on the fence to form an opinion on the videogame set to be released worldwide on February 23.The tw... |
2 February 2010
05:32 GMT |
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Video games and movies are starting to become closer and closer to one another, and not just through tie-ins and spin-offs. While there are plenty of movies based on video games and vice versa, some are taking a new approach to the symbiotic relationship between the two. If the movie DOOM had a first-person shooter s... |
28 January 2010
03:27 GMT |
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While the ESRB has a very valid existence in today's society, where media accessibility makes everything available to everyone, it does seem to have a habit of delivering some of the most entertaining reading materials possible. In order to properly inform the public about the content of a game so as to protect ... |
19 January 2010
06:48 GMT |
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Sony, as the publisher, and Quantic Dream, as the developer, have announced that they will be releasing Heavy Rain in North America and in Europe on February 23. The game will be exclusive to the PlayStation 3 console and will bear a price of 59.99 dollars. The United Kingdom region will be getting the title two days... |
11 January 2010
04:29 GMT |
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Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain has generated quite a bit of attention on all fronts. In a gaming medium dominated by commercial titles and an over saturation with casual ones, the interactive drama, as it's been pegged, is more than just the ugly duckling of the family. But, from all points of view, it really l... |
21 December 2009
06:03 GMT |
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One of the biggest exclusives the PlayStation 3 is set to receive in 2010 is Heavy Rain, the game that Quantic Dream has been working on for quite some time and that aims to provide the most emotional gaming experience ever seen on a console.And one of the challenges the team working on the title has faced has been t... |
18 December 2009
08:29 GMT |
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This Tuesday was probably one of the most emotional days for me in the past months. Be at ease, this isn't some nerve-wreaking rant about any personal issues, it is strictly game-related. The Heavy Rain article, but most of all, the game's cinematic trailer, stirred something inside me. The first thing was ... |
6 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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As the videogaming world matures, a lot of people, most of them outside the industry, have been asking whether videogames can be seen as art with the implication that they are just a form of entertainment for the masses.Of course, there are others who point to titles like Braid and Fahrenheit and call them art. But D... |
6 November 2009
03:02 GMT |
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Heavy Rain is a very ambitious project. It sounds mundane at first, with four characters pitted on the trail of the Origami Killer and with promises of cinematic action. But once you factor in the work David Cage and most of his team have done on Fahrenheit earlier in their careers, Heavy Rain becomes one of the most... |
5 November 2009
14:41 GMT |
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It's hard to create a videogame that tackles mature themes. One just has to ask the people at BioWare who have been vilified by the media, especially Fox News, for the simple fact that they offered some details about how love might look in the future between adults of two different species.One just has to look a... |
3 November 2009
16:11 GMT |
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It's a bit hard to describe what type of title Heavy Rain is and it's even more difficult to assign it to a genre. It's a bit of an action game and a bit of an adventure, but that doesn't make a mix of the two. The title is developed by Quantic Dream and is written and directed by David Cage. In f... |
3 November 2009
03:07 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is certainly picking up steam these days as not only did it see quite a few high-end titles arrive for it, but the recent announcement of the PlayStation 3 Slim, for a lower price, was certainly great news for all of the gamers who put off buying one. With other titles like God of War III or Gran T... |
28 August 2009
02:21 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 is one of the most powerful consoles out there, capable of rendering some truly high-quality titles. Sadly though not many of these have really wowed the normal gamers, who are getting a bit bored of seeing different shades of gray or brown in many of their titles. But one game that will certainly ... |
27 August 2009
02:37 GMT |
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There are certainly a lot of video games arriving almost every week, but there is a specific season where the “flood” of high-quality titles is overwhelming for many average video game fans: the winter holiday season. As we've seen, there is a huge demand in the months before the end of the year, an... |
14 July 2009
02:38 GMT |
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The gaming industry and Hollywood have had a very close friendship for quite some time. Whether it was about making game-based movies or movie-based games, the two branches of entertainment have collaborated quite nicely. Such is the case with voice acting or even real-life acting, for which big companies like Electr... |
23 February 2009
13:01 GMT |
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David Cage is a well known game developer, mostly because of the work he has done on Fahrenheit, also known as Indigo Prophecy, who has never sought to limit the mature content that he included in his work. After all, if videogames are set to become the eighth art and be recognized as such, they cannot continue to on... |
7 January 2009
17:31 GMT |
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Indeed the PlayStation 3 doesn't have as many exclusives as Xbox 360 does, but we all know that it's quality that matters, when it comes to video games, not quantity. And Sony does have quality in its games, one of the latest exclusives for its console being Heavy Rain, an adventure title developed by Quant... |
21 August 2008
04:21 GMT |
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Quantic Dream has provided a few insights into their next title, developed for Sony Entertainment Europe, and due to come out on the PlayStation 3. The studio has laid low after the release of Fahrenheit, which was hailed for the complex story and engaging gameplay, only doing limited work in supplying motion capture... |
13 March 2008
04:53 GMT |
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