Heavy Rain Is About Normal People, Real Life

Don't expect to see the heroine of Heavy Rain leaping through the air in some abominable mash-up of Cirque du Soleil and The Matrix. The game's director tells 1UP it's simply about "normal people." More »

12/02/08

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Quantic Dream's Cage Talks Emotionless MMOs

Quantic Dream's David Cage, the creator of Indigo Prophecy who's currently at work on Heavy Rain, often has good things to say about emotion in games, and in a recent interview with Gamasutra, he's leveling a critical eye on the open-world structures of MMOs and wondering what "emotional value" players are really getting out of them. More »

07/25/08

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Comment by freespeech1: should this guy really be talking $hit when his game isn't even out yet????? more » | Other threads

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Xbox Originals Arrive, Bring Free Themes

Hey, those Xbox Originals (aka old Xbox games) have arrived on Xbox Live Marketplace as of today, bringing a handful of extras with them. While the more mundane but practical stuff includes PDF instruction manuals and online controller mappings for games like Psychonauts, Halo and Indigo Propechy, there are some fun freebies, too. Picture packs and themes for each of the Xbox Originals are available for download by going to Marketplace > Game Store > Xbox Originals. Gussy up your Xbox 360 blades with free Fable stuff, if you want. Huzzah! More »

12/04/07

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Comment by rluzinski: I rented Indigo Prophesy and beat it in one, 8 hour sitting. As others have said, it feels like... more » | Other threads

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Indigo Prophecy Dev Working on Exclusive PS3 Title

Wow, this is quite a coupé. Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios have penned a deal with Quantic Dream (the team behind Indigo Prophecy/Fahrenheit) to collaborate on an exclusive Playstation 3 title. Personally I thought that Quantic Dream's 2005 adventure game was one of, if not the, best game of that year. More »

07/03/07

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My Favorite Games of the Season

What with all of the holidaying, I forgot to mention last week that my slender Gamer’s Gift Guide ran in the Rocky. I had a mere 35 inches to cover what I thought were the best titles of the season. (I didn’'t even think about trying to cover the entire year.) I decided to go with a series of very short — like one paragraph — descriptions of why I liked each game and to put them in a bunch of bizarre categories. More »

12/30/05

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How Do you Define Best Game of the Year?

It looks like our reader poll for best game of the year is shaping up to be a two horse race with Resident Evil 4 and Mario Kart DS duking it out for the top spot and God of War trailing a distant third. More »

12/22/05

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Comment by Erzengel: I loved Indigo (Farenheit, as i played the euro-uncut version) Definitely the end of the story left me with a... more » | Other threads

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Review: Indigo Prophecy

It's the commonplace settings, the mundane surroundings of Indigo Prophecy that provide the power behind its punch. More »

12/22/05

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Comment by Erzengel: I have the european version... and the sex scenes are actually subtle, very well made, not hardcore porn. You can... more » | Other threads

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