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David Cage, CEO and founder of Paris-based developer Quantic Dream, creators of the renowned adventure games Omikron: The Nomad Soul and Fahrenheit (Indigo Prophecy in North America) and of the highly anticipated 2010 PLAYSTATION 3 exclusive release, Heavy Rain, will deliver a keynote at this year's Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe). Cage's keynote address, titled "Writing Interactive Narrative for a Mature Audience," will focus on why mature games are necessary, what difficulties these developers face, and will expose possible solutions and techniques in interactive storytelling.
ZoKnowsGaming writes "A few weeks back we did a Heavy Rain preview and in that preview there were a lot of never before seen facts about the game and the article was actually based on the game's official fact sheet. Then today we got to thinking, how many people might have missed it because they thought it was info they have seen before because it wasn't clearly marked as the game's fact sheet and so we decided to post the actual fact sheet and title it as such so folks know exactly what they are about to see."
Think Services today announced that David Cage will give a keynote at Game Developers Conference Europe (GDC Europe). His speech, titled "Writing Interactive Narrative for a Mature Audience," will focus on the relevance, difficulties and strategies for making stories in mature games. Cage is CEO of Quantic Dream and has helped create Omikron: The Nomad Soul, Indigo Prophecy and the 2010 PS3 title Heavy Rain.
Speaking at the Develop Conference in Brighton today, Denis Dyack, founder of Silicon Knights, has said he believes Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain could turn out to be a "fantastic experience".
Is motion sensing a fad, or is it perhaps the future of the video game industry? The truth probably lies somewhere in between, but with Wii MotionPlus, Project Natal and Sony's PlayStation motion technology all gathering steam, for the moment all three console makers are intent on taking hold of the motion-sensing market. David Cage, founder of Quantic Dream (which is working on the much talked about Heavy Rain, due out early 2010), is no fan of the direction the industry seems to be headed in, however.
Heavy Rain will release in 2010 to give it "space to live" away from the hectic Christmas retail period, Quantic Dream co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere has told GI.
Guillaume de Fondaumiere, co-CEO of Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream, has told SPOnG that his company's game is not necessarily "conceptually in line" with the PS3's Trophy system.
Quantic Dream offering a high-end collection of animations to other studios.
NowGamer: During a recent interview, Quantic Dream's David Cage told NowGamer there's still a lot of work to be done on Heavy Rain before it's ready.
Official Playstation Blog:
Considering the sex scene was censored from the U.S. version of Fahrenheit it seems likely that the American´s will get a toned down version of Heavy Rain. Sex, full frontal nudity and drug use have been confirmed.
Destructoid writes: "Sony let us know that only the PS3 has the power to render detail so fine that the characters even have acne. We had the privilege of seeing the amazing Heavy Rain up close, but maybe this was particular close up was too close for comfort. We're talking whole-screen face here.
PlayStation LifeStyle writes:
Heavy Rain's got four main characters. All of them can die. So, it's essentially four "lives," and then, game over, right? Not quite. Quantic Dreams is challenging the ingrained notions of game endings. Sure, if your clumsy button presses manage to kill off all four of your characters, the game's mysterious antagonist, The Origami Killer, gets away. But this is simply one of many potential outcomes in a player-created story, director David Cage explained during an E3 breakout session for the game. Even if all four die, there will still be "a sense of closure."
The lack of Quantic Dream´s appearance at Sony´s E3 briefing certainly left a few people concerned. Heavy Rain is quite possibly, if not the most, one of the most anticipated games of 2009 so it is really baffling as to why Sony didn´t show-boat it. Gametrailers allegedly confirmed that the release of Heavy Rain had been pushed back until sometimes in 2010 and the fact that this heavy title was not even shown in the 2009/2010 lineup has got me leaning towards a late 2010 release.
PSFocus has put up a list on there site which shows a potential game line-up for the Sony E3 2009 press conference.
NowGamer: During a recent chat in London, Heavy Rain director David Cage told NowGamer why he decided to release his latest project only on PS3