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• PS Plus July: Detroit Become Human Digital Deluxe Edition with Heavy Rain replaces PES 2019

  Sony has changed its PS Plus July offerings. Instead of Pro Evolution Soccer 2019, subs will now receive Detroit: Become Human Digital Deluxe Edition.

• Quantic Dream's choice-driven thriller Heavy Rain hits PC today, and you should definitely play it

  Developer Quantic Dream’s choice-based, action thriller Heavy Rain launched nearly 10 years ago, but today it finally hits PC, giving you no excuse anymore to not play it.

• Release dates and demos announced for Beyond Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, and Heavy Rain on PC

  PC release dates for Beyond Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, and Heavy Rain have been announced.

• Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human coming to PC as Epic Games Store exclusives

  Quantic Dream’s PlayStation 4 titles will finally arrive on PC, and each will be an Epic Games Store timed-exclusives.

• Video games need to take more responsibility when portraying suicide

• You can’t download Heavy Rain for free on PS Plus if you own Beyond: Two Souls

  It looks like something has gone wrong with July’s PlayStation Plus games.

• Absolver, Heavy Rain, Rayman 3 HD lead PlayStation Plus July lineup

  Sony has announced its PlayStation Plus July lineup.

• Heavy Rain shows frame-rate, resolution and more improvements on PS4

  The PlayStation 4 version of Heavy Rain has seen improvements across the board over the PlayStation 3 original.

• Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls Collection announced, Heavy Rain PSN dated

  If you’ve been holding out on both Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, you’ll soon be able to buy them both in a collection in March.

• Deus Ex & Epic Mickey designer calls out Uncharted and Heavy Rain for being more movies than games

  According to one veteran designer, games like Uncharted, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and Heavy Rain are all not doing what video game stories should do; collaborative storytelling.

• Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain PS4 demos playable at Paris Games Week

  A couple more shots from Paris Games Week have popped up on Twitter, showing playable PlayStation 4 demos of Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain.

• Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain are coming to PS4 but "only for Europe"

  Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain will be released for PlayStation 4, but only for Europe and the PAL region. Sorry, North America.

• Games of the generation: Pat's picks ring the changes

  PS4 releases next week in the US, ending a generation of where innovation fought traditions and, according to Patrick Garratt, one game above all managed to be new.

• Beyond: Two Souls has moved on from Heavy Rain, says Quantic Dream co-CEO

  Sony has released a video interview with Quantic Dream co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere in which he discusses the differences between the game and the firm’s last outing, Heavy Rain. In the video he touches upon the story’s scope, and provides insight on the design process. Beyond: Two Souls launches worldwide on October 8.

• David Cage: focus on feedback and "you become a marketing person"

  Quantic Dream boss David Cage doesn’t believe in design by metrics and committee, because he’s interested in creative acts, not filling out a checklist of features.

• Heavy Rain: Microsoft knocked back Quantic Dream's bestseller over scandal worries

  Microsoft has a chance to publish Heavy Rain, but knocked back the eventual PlayStation 3 exclusive over its kidnapping themes.

• David Cage and Yu Suzuki discuss Shenmue and story-telling

  David Cage and Yu Suzuki have been interviewed by Camouflaj developer Ryan Payton about Shenmue, the art of story-telling and QTEs.

• Heavy Rain cost €16.7 million, Sony made "more than €100 million" on it

  Quantic Dream’s Guillaume de Fondaumiere has said Heavy Rain cost €16.7 million to develop, and once distribution and marketing costs were added, the total came to €40 million. Still, the game was profitable: “Sony earned more than €100 million with this game,” he told the Digital Dragons audience in Poland today.

• Quantic Dream hiring programmer with "a strong understanding of multiplayer"

  Quantic Dream has posted a job listing for a lead online programmer with a “very deep and high knowledge of online gaming; network developments.” The firm would like for this person to have shipped a triple-A title with “significant experience in multiplayer gaming.” While Quantic’s next project, Beyond: Two Souls is a single-player title as […]