Heavy Rain

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• 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 […]

• Beyond: Two Souls has no QTEs, states Cage

  Beyond: Two Souls may come from the same team that brought you Heavy Rain, but it doesn’t have a single QTE, Quantic Dream’s David Cage has told VG247.

• Cage: Sony grants "total freedom", indies the "future of the industry"

  Quantic Dream boss David Cage has said very few developers have the chance to explore new ideas – and those that do will shape the future of games.

• David Cage interview: interaction lost in a cinematic age

  Beyond: Two Souls and Heavy Rain creator David Cage speaks to VG247’s Dave Cook about emotion, the importance of talented actors and what to expect from Beyond.

• Beyond Two Souls: Interactivity is 'more than shooting guns' - Cage

  David Cage believes player interaction in video games should consist of more than just shooting a gun, and this philosophy is something he’s striving to instill with Quantic Dream’s latest, Beyond: Two Souls.

• Beyond: Two Souls - death comes to us all

  Beyond: Two Souls isn’t a game trying to be a movie or some attempt to bridge the divide between them. Quantic Dream view it as a convergence – a third new form of entertainment that puts its actors fully to the test. VG247’s Dave Cook goes behind the scenes to learn more.

• Warren Spector "would never make" a game like Heavy Rain

  Although Deus Ex creator Warren Spector believes David Cage is one of the best writers in gaming, he’s wary of the inflexibility of heavily scripted games.

• Quantic Dream “unhappy with everything” about Heavy Rain

  Despite showing the world a thing or two about graphical prowess and cinematic gameplay, Quantic Dream boss David Cage says the team weren’t satisfied with Heavy Rain.

• Heavy Rain Move Edition still missing extra content

  A Destructoid report puts the spotlight back on an ongoing issue: Some buyers have found that the Platinum Move Edition of Heavy Rain is missing the exclusive content advertised on the box. Affected copies of the game, which are still appearing in the wild, do not display the extra content on the PlayStation 3’s XMB. […]