Heavy Rain moves 1.5 million units
David Cage is hoping Heavy Rain will manage to sell 2 million units this year, after revealing it’s already sold 1.5 million since launch. According to Cage, Heavy Rain is one of few titles which has...
View ArticleSony: Introducing new IP defines our success
Beating Xbox 360 will lay out PS3′s success, right? Nope. New IP like Heavy Rain, though, will do just that. SCE WWS European VP, Michael Denny, told OPM at gamescom last week it’s making new IP will...
View ArticleCage: PS3 “perfect” for Heavy Rain due to “Blu-ray disc,” a “more...
Heavy Rain lead David Cage has outlined reasons for siding with Sony for his groundbreaking game, saying PS3 has a more “sophisticated” entertainment ideal while noting Blu-Ray’s extra storage...
View ArticleHeavy Rain: Move Edition dated in Europe, demo coming this week
SCEE’s announced it’s releasing the Move edition of Heavy Rain on October 8 in the UK. The motion control-enabled version of the Quantic Dream thriller features the game itself, as well as DLC episode...
View ArticleHeavy Rain video features cut content and deleted scenes – watch this now
Did you miss out on the behind-the-scenes video footage of deleted scenes and other cuts from Heavy Rain on the PlayStation Network last week? Then, sigh no more and instead turn your sounds of woe...
View ArticleHeavy Rain film adaptation fast tracked
Warner Bros. have fast tracked the film adaptation of cinematic interactive fiction title, Heavy Rain, which despite causing us to boggle so hard our hats fell off, actually exists. Variety reports...
View ArticleThursday Shorts: 600 PSOne Classics in Japan, Bulletstorm rips into RROD, Spy...
Grab a sausage roll or two and a cup of tea. Here are all your shorts that aren’t worth covering as their own story. Someone’s captured a segment of Bulletstorm which seems to take a jab at Microsoft...
View ArticleCage: Heavy Rain was finished by 72 percent of players
Quantic Dream boss David Cage has said that at least 72 percent of players finished Heavy Rain. Cage announced the statistic during a post-mortem at GDC yesterday, where he also called on developers to...
View ArticleFriday Shorts: The Second – Shogun nuggets, The National in Portal 2, Mega...
There’s tons of little stuff hitting the Internet to browse through, but because we love you so dearly, we’ve done the work for you. Now, where’s our thank you kiss? Ah, there it is. Good boys. You’ve...
View Article“We want to show that Heavy Rain was not a coincidence or a lucky shot,” says...
Winning BAFTAs last night for Story, Technical Innovation, and Music, Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream was rather pleased, and none more so than David Cage. Speaking with Spong last night following...
View ArticleCage: “We need to talk about emotions and work on stories that appeal to all...
David Cage has been on a talking streak since Quantic Dream won three BAFTAs earlier this week, and most of what he’s had to say involves interactive storytelling – one of the categories Heavy Rain won...
View ArticleDavid Cage: Game creators should write stories about themselves – not space...
This may come as a something of a shock to you, but Heavy Rain creator David Cage is a bit full of himself. Perhaps, however, that’s not such a bad thing. “I hear many developers in the US saying the...
View ArticleWestern games dominate Japanese developers’ best of 2010 list
A late survey of Japan’s development luminaries has seen Heavy Rain and Red Dead Redemption top a list ripe with international releases. Andriasang posted the results of a Dengeki poll on the past...
View ArticleFriday Shorts II: Develop, Heavy Rain, PS Video Store
It’s Friday, which means you’ve now reached the weekend. Congrabulatgonglations. That’s a word I just made up. Here are your shorts. Here’s this week’s PS Store video update from the US. Heavy Rain...
View ArticleHeavy Rain gets toned down edition for France
European game ratings body PEGI’s rated a toned down version of Heavy Rain. The Quantic Dream thriller was given a PEGI 18 (BBFC 15) when it launched last February. Now the new version, Heavy Rain...
View ArticleQuantic Dream: €10 million lost from second hand Heavy Rain sales
Quantic Dream CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere has said that the French developer has lost upwards of €10 million in second hand sales from Heavy Rain. The exec told GI.biz that second hand sales for the...
View ArticleCage: No Heavy Rain 2 because “I’m not in this business to make money”
David Cage has said he has no intention of making a Heavy Rain 2, as he is not in the videogame business to “make money.” Speaking in an interview with Develop, the Quantic Dream frontman said the...
View ArticleHeavy Rain: Director’s Cut releasing in the US on November 8
Sony has announced the Heavy Rain: Director’s Cut, a package which includes the original game, Heavy Rain Chronicles: Episode 1 – The Taxidermist DLC, the original soundtrack, bonus videos, Move...
View Article65% of Heavy Rain players saved Shaun
Of Heavy Rain’s 3 million players, over one third failed to save the Origami Killer’s next victim. In an infographic posted on IGN, Quantic Dream revealed that 74% of players finished the game. Only...
View ArticleHeavy 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...
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