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News David Cage Talks Motion Controls & Creativity
David Cage will release his first, fully-supported motion control game soon; it may not be a new title, but Heavy Rain will be considered as one of the first "hardcore" titles to make use of Sony's new PlayStation Move controller
Cage thinks that motion controls have the potential to appeal to the mainstream, but he also told Eurogamer that...
News David Cage Closes The Door On Heavy Rain DLC
Listening to David Cage in recent months, we've always got the impression that DLC for Heavy Rain was very much an afterthought
So, honestly, we're not surprised there have never been hard details on the prequel Chronicles. But, according to a Eurogamer interview, it seems Move implementation is what's killed the mini episodes. "Our approach...
News This Heavy Rain Cosplay Is The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread
Not content with dressing up as detective Norman Jayden, this DeviantArt cosplayer went the whole hog and added in Heavy Rain-esque control commands too
If we were in charge of the country, this guy would get a medal for his efforts.</em>
News Quantic Dream Puts The Brakes On Heavy Rain DLC
We always thought it was fishy the way in which Sony announced the initial batch of Heavy Rain DLC
It never seemed like it was a sure plan, and so it's unsurprising to hear Quantic Dream put the brakes on anymore DLC for the thriller. According to GameInformer, Quantic Dream were urged to focus on an upcoming PlayStation Move patch for the game, and...
News SCEE Confirm Heavy Rain: Move Edition Re-Release
Sony's reportedly confirmed to VG247 that they will be re-releasing Heavy Rain later this year with PlayStation Move support
As yet there's no date for the re-release, but it seems like a good Move (geddit?) for Sony to make. Heavy Rain ended up having a surprising amount of mainstream appeal, and it once again secures the PlayStation Move as a...
News LittleBigPlanet Heavy Rain Costumes Are A Stroke Of Genius
These latest Heavy Rain themed Sackboy outfits are probably the cutest yet
Of the Heavy Rain crew available are: Ethan Mars, Madison Paige, Scott Shelby and Norman Jayden, as well as an origami costume. The costumes will cost £4.79 for the bunch, or £1.59 each.</em> Brilliant.
Rumour David Cage Casting For New Project Called "Horizon"
VG247's reporting this afternoon that Heavy Rain's David Cage is now casting for a new project entitled "Horizon"
According to the website, the game's to be focused on a couple in their twenties. VG247 reports that the plot involves a curious man raised very insularly meeting a free woman who is hesitant to exercise her freedom". Sounds like...
News It's Heavy Rain's Ethan Mars... In Action Figure Form!
Kudos to DeviantArt user Baker009 who's crafted this ridiculously awesome custom action figure of Heavy Rain's Ethan Mars
Sadly he's not for sale, as he was a commission piece. But let this be a heads up to Sony and Quantic Dream — people want Heavy Rain action figures.</em>
News Broken Sword Man: Heavy Rain Was "Deeply Flawed"
Revolution Software's Charles Cecil has told MCV how he admires David Cage's work with MCV, but still finds the experience of Heavy Rain to be deeply flawed
Half way through I thought it was a work of absolute genius, said the Broken Sword man . When I finished it, I still thought it was a work of genius but deeply flawed. Theres a lot of...
News Confirmed: Heavy Rain Knocks Up Figures Of One Million Plus
Sony's just confirmed via the Playstation Blog that Quantic Dream's ambitious Playstation exclusive, Heavy Rain, has totalled a million sales plus worldwide since its release just five weeks ago
We fell head over heels in love with Heavy Rain when we reviewed the game in February, describing the experience as "captivatingly original". If...
News Heavy Rain Shifts Over One Million Copies, On Track For 1.5 Million By Year's End
Armchair analysts predicted Sony and Quantic Dream's unusual experiment Heavy Rain would barely break-even
They were wrong. Extremely wrong in fact, as David Cage has confirmed that the thriller has shifted over one million copies since its release in late February. The visionary told Play3.de: We have sold more than 1 million copies of Heavy Rain...
News David Cage Frustrated By Microsoft's "Sci-Fi" Natal Showcase
Remember when everyone went insane about five minutes after E3? "Oh man," they screamed, "Microsoft's created virtual life and science fiction technology via the XBOX 360
" Yeah - a PR masterpiece. The initial Project Natal showcase - Microsoft's controller-less gaming solution - was a bunch of smoke and mirrors, but it took most people a while...
Ruh-roh
Way to damn your product to endless comparisons by the fanboys Mark Carson of CaptiveMotion. Mark worked on Microsoft exclusive Alan Wake, but has a thing or two to say about Heavy Rain's own visuals, despite not playing the game. "It's beautiful and brilliant but visually uneven at points, which unfortunately is the nature of the...
Rumour Playstation Move Support Allegedly Confirmed For Heavy Rain
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nl</a> are reporting via Belgian gaming magazine, Chief, that Sony's confirmed Playstation Move support for Heavy Rain. In a segment devoted to the Move's games line-up, Heavy Rain is there clear as day next-door to LittleBigPlanet. It really does seem like a matter of when not if, especially seeing as Cage's original vision for the game...
News David Cage: Publishers Should Put Greater Emphasis On Creativity
Quantic Dream's David Cage has been talking about creativity again
Speaking to the Guardian, the video game visionary claimed publishers should place "more importance" on creativity. He told the British publication:I always said that the success or failure of Heavy Rain would send a strong message to the game industry: if the game faced...
News Wanna See Something Weird? Watch Scott Shelby Playing Scott Shelby In Real Life...
Scott Shelby is a character from Heavy Rain
He is played by Sam Douglas. Sam Douglas is a real actor who played a bit-part in the 2005 Clive Owen movie Derailed. The scene featuring the actor shows Douglas wearing a long trench coat, playing an investigator, and generally acting like Detective Scott Shelby... Hit the jump for a video delight...
News Heavy Rain's "The Taxidermist" DLC Launches On April 1st
Sony's announced that the first episode of the Heavy Rain Chronicles DLC, Madison Paige's The Taxidermist, will launch on the Playstation Store this coming April 1st for $4
99. We described the DLC as "horror-led" in our 3/4 scoring review for the content. If you loved Heavy Rain, you should definitely be excited about this one hour slice...
News Peter Molyneux's All Like, "Heavy Rain Is The Future And Stuff..."
Microsoft's Peter Molyneux never fails to deliver a quote that's worth reading
Whether he's hyping up his own game as the relative second coming of Elvis Presley, or simply stating something ridiculous — the dude's a master of spin. Turns out that in his latest interview with Joystiq he wants to hype a Playstation product, rather than his own...
News Press X To Jaaaaaaaaaaaaason!!!1
Those of you who played Heavy Rain may remember Ethan Mars' tense-search for his son in a busy shopping mall
The command prompts enthused you press the "X" button - the result? "Jaaaaaaaaaaaasoooon!" Perhaps on purpose, this Flash game on Heavy.com decides to completely miss the point. Forget the origami killer - this is all...
News Final Fantasy XIII Tops The UK Sales Charts, PS3 SKU Wins The War
Final Fantasy XIII has shot straight to the top of the UK sales charts, with the PS3 version of the game managing 54% of the sales
Not the hugest of discrepancies between the SKUs, but it's often rare a PS3 multiplatform game outsells its XBOX 360 rival - particularly when Microsoft have broken the metaphorical bank marketing the game exclusive to...
News Heavy Rain Stock Shortages Are Being Dealt With
If your PS3 is totally working right now, you might be suffering from a whole new problem this evening: you can't find a copy of Heavy Rain
According to MCV, Quantic Dream's thriller is suffering from shortages in some retail circles after the game shot straight to the top of the UK charts this morning.We have been extremely delighted with the...
News New Line Cinema Own The Rights For A Heavy Rain Movie, Won't Ever Happen
What if interactive drama wasn't quite so interactive? It would be a movie right? Of course it would
And while it would never happen, it's been discovered that copyright documents exist for such a thing. Apparently, in May 2006 New Line Cinema grabbed the rights for a Heavy Rain movie. It's totally never going to come out of course. But y'know. It's...
News Heavy Rain Tops The UK Sales Charts & Rightly So
"Bu-Bu-But Heavy Rain sucks because it's not going to sell
" It may be a comment you've read on a message board somewhere. Well those people are not only stupid, but they're also officially wrong: Heavy Rain just topped the UK sales charts. As in — outsold every other video game in the UK in the past seven days. We thought it was...
News Jacky-Boy Tretton: Heavy Rain's Gonna Sell "Incredibly Well"
You know, there was a time when we would have scoffed at Jack Tretton's comments regarding Heavy Rain's sales
But now, not so. Tretton has told FastCompany that Heavy Rain will sell "incredibly well", and he's absolutely right. In fact, from what we're hearing around the world it already is. When the game was announced in 2008, we really...
News Heavy Rain Players Encountering Some Technical Issues
Honestly, we can categorically state we played through Heavy Rain without any noticeable glitches
Sadly, that doesn't appear to be the case for everyone though, as it appears some people are having technical issues with the game. From freezing, to out-of-sync audio, you can guarantee there's someone complaining about it right now - most likely on...
News Check This Out: Olympique Lyon Wear Heavy Rain Branded Football Shirts
Over the weekend, French football team Olympique Lyon thrashed fellow league rivals Sochaux 4-0
They did this whilst wearing Playstation 3, and more specifically, Heavy Rain branded shirts. Awesome. It's part of the latest craze in European football, where teams change their sponsor on a match-to-match basis. It's weird seeing Heavy Rain on a...
News Check Out SCEE's Heavy Rain Commercial [It's Pretty Alright]
Surprise
Sony are going to actually promote Heavy Rain as a product. On the television. Blimey! Sony, television, advertising? Who'd have thunk it, eh? That advert sticks with SCEE's "Start" tag-line, still not as good as the "Only Does Everything" commercials in America, but the more serious tone probably fits this game...
News Heavy Rain's Female Cast Are Definitely Not Just "Eye Candy"
NowGamer's Samuel Roberts recently posted a critique on the portrayal of women in Quantic Dream's forward-thinking noire-thriller Heavy Rain
Having played the game to death already for review here in the PushSquare office, we took issue with Samuel's particular point. [Some very mild spoilers through the link] Without wanting to tread too far...
News Let It Rain, Let It Rain, Let It Rain...
We just wanted to remind you folks that this week is indeed the week you've been waiting for
Heavy Rain is launched in Europe and USA, meaning you'll finally get to find out just who the origami killer is. We already know, but our lips are sealed firmly shut. In our 4/4 review last week we described Heavy Rain as "captivatingly original"...
News Watch People Like Samuel L. Jackson Talk About Heavy Rain
You know what? Heavy Rain is a much bigger deal than most ordinary games
We're sorry to say it because we look all pretentious and dumb, but it really is. And so, on its launch week, it deserves more than just another trailer. It deserves a highly produced video featuring people like Samuel L. Jackson answering the question, "how far would...
News Heavy Rain Falls, Reviews Drop, Words Are Fantastic
The embargo for Heavy Rain has just lifted in the US, in typical super-early Sony review tradition
And the word is good. Very good indeed. Here's what a variety of notorious publications had to say about Quantic Dream's latest interactive drama. IGN - 9"Heavy Rain wont be for everyone (namely kids or people just looking to blow stuff up) but...
News Famitsu Score Heavy Rain A Whopping 37/40
Famitsu's dropped their review of Heavy Rain today, scoring it a whopping 37/40 and acknowledging its "fabulous story"
The embargo for much of the video games press is up tonight, meaning a deluge of reviews are due to hit at around 5PM this evening (GMT). Of course, we'll be there for that. The game currently holds a 93 on Metacritic.
News Heavy Rain Demo Available Now For Wannabe Detectives
Remember the Four Days challenge for Heavy Rain? Well, turns out it's not just a marketing tool
(Actually it kinda is but stay with us.) Y'see, those of you who have completed the game, will gain access to the Heavy Rain demo. Early access that is. Everyone else will get it next week. A couple of sites have explained exactly how to complete the...
News Heavy Rain Gets Slapped With A Fairly Large HDD Install
Just to get it out there, Heavy Rain requires installation before you play it
It'll need 4.2GB of space to run in-fact, presumably to keep load-times reasonable. Don't worry too much about the horrific install screen progress bar though; Quantic Dream's come up with a clever way to keep you occupied - teaching you how to make your own Origami bird.
News Sony: Heavy Rain Is A Total "Gamble", Yo
Heavy Rain literally looks bonkers
The latest game from David Cage and his team at Quantic Dream dares to think outside the box. In that, it's a huge gamble for publishers Sony, but one they are giving their full support. Product manager Lucy Duncan told CVG:Being Sony, I suppose we have a little more luxury to take a gamble on more original and...
News Super Spoilers You Might Want To Avoid: New Heavy Rain Footage
GameTrailers has published some exclusive footage from Heavy Rain's "Mall" scene
We'd love to tell you about it but we're not watching it. That's right, this editorial team just went on hiatus. Well, only when it comes to Heavy Rain footage. Because we're so excited about the game, there's no way in hell we're ruining it for ourselves. You can catch...
News Once More With Feeling: New Heavy Rain Trailer Is Brimming With Awesome
Wow
Heavy Rain may be a little too experimental to be a commercial success; but who really cares about the sales figures when we're on the verge of playing a game this different? The latest (not so spoilery) Heavy Rain trailer, embedded below, is literally packed to the brim with feeling. Sony would do well to market this game next to crime dramas...
News David Cage: Heavy Rain Is Not Meant For "Tabloids"
Perhaps preparing himself for the inevitable Daily Mail backlash - David Cage has explained that his upcoming Playstation 3 noir thriller, Heavy Rain (which is riddled with themes of child murder and sex), is not meant "for the tabloids"
When you write something or you develop a project like Heavy Rain, you dont write for tabloids. You dont...
News SCEE: Heavy Rain Demo Due February 11th (If You Really Want To Play It)
We understand why people might need to play a demo of Heavy Rain to be fully sold on the game's "interactive drama" nature, but for us, we so don't want to play a demo
We're sure the scene's been picked specifically to not only crush the "QTE" rumours, but also show the scope of Heavy Rain's plot without giving anything away. But you know...
News Inevitable: God Of War III Gets Console Bundle
As we expected, God Of War III will get a console bundle here in Europe (and we're sure in the US too, though no word on that yet) when the game launches in March
The bundle includes a 250GB Playstation 3 console, controller and copy of the game. Amazon France has spilled the beans on the bundle, much like the Heavy Rain one we reported on...
News Heavy Rain DLC Will Explore The Origins Of The Origami Killer
While you'll get to play numerous characters in Heavy Rain, you'll only play those tracking down the focal character; the "Origami Killer"
Taking control of the mysterious monster will be left for DLC, David Cage has revealed on a French website. Known as the Heavy Rain Chronicles, DLC episodes will add about an hour of gameplay to each character's...
News Japanese Heavy Rain Boxart Is All About Noses
The European boxart may be awesome, and the American boxart may be terrible, but what of the Japanese boxart for Quantic Dream's noir-thriller Heavy Rain? Well, it's got a nose on it
News Heavy Rain Getting A Console Bundle In France
Heavy Rain is a game made by a French studio
Therefore it only seems fitting that Amazon France would reveal details (ta, PSLS) of a PS3 Slim/Heavy Rain bundle pack. You'll get a 250GB console, a copy of Heavy Rain, and all the other bits and bobs. Itll cost 349.95 (£309) with a release on February 24, which just so happens to be the same day...
News Cage: There'll Be No Sequel To Heavy Rain
Speaking in the latest issue of Official Playstation Magazine (via TheLostGamer), David Cage has put an end to any suggestions of a sequel to the upcoming Heavy Rain
"I don't want to do a sequel because I've said what I had to say about these characters and this story," Cage explained, later adding, "honestly, I have nothing else to...
News Heavy Rain Heads-Up: 9/10 In Official Playstation Magazine, New Screens
First and foremost, divert your attention to Eurogamer where some new decidely wet screens for Heavy Rain have been posted
They're wet. Secondly, the game received its first rating in the British iteration of Official Playstation Magazine today, scoring a whopping 9/10:Certainly theres nothing quite like it on PS3, or indeed any other system...
News Heavy Rain Website Is Now Live, Collector's Edition Contents Revealed
The Heavy Rain website is now live [read: was, seems to be having some server issues at time of writing - Ed], and features a pretty cool online murder mystery called "Four Days", beginning on January 26th
There'll be daily tasks for you to complete, and some cool exclusive content; but most importantly: no spoilers. If you register at the site...
News David Cage: Heavy Rain "Definitely Ain't Porn"
Heavy Rain creator David Cage has told PSM3 magazine (via CVG) that the sex-scenes in his upcoming masterpiece "definitely aren't porn
""There are a couple [of sex scenes], but its definitely not porn. We dont intend to push the boundaries and be ultra-realistic in every detail. Its about real characters having emotions and doing...
News Americans: Hate The Heavy Rain Cover? Print Out The European One
In a move that suggests, "hey, we know the US boxart is terrible too," Sony has confirmed that Americans will be able to print out and replace their Heavy Rain boxart with the European artwork
Rest easy American gamers frustrated by awful boxart.
News Quantic Dream "Will Definitely Experiment" With Playstation Motion Controller
Quantic Dream, the innovative studio behind the upcoming Heavy Rain, will definitely experiment with Playstation Motion Controller according to studio boss David Cage
I am curious to see what can be done with more mature games, if it can be used to support immersion and create a new way of playing. Quantic Dream will definitely experiment with the...
News American Heavy Rain Boxart Is... Not So Great
You know the European boxart for Heavy Rain
It's bloody brilliant, isn't it? All that rain and, erm, origami. Cool. The recently announced US boxart, yeah, erm, that's not so great. It kinda looks like a straight-to-rental B-movie; which isn't so hot. Also, it's distressing how clearly this is aimed at a mainstream American audience. It's after the...
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