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Forced To Strip: How Games Might Teach Us More About Sex

5:00AM Owen Good | The upcoming Heavy Rain features a sequence in which its female protagonist is forced to strip for a disgusting mob boss. It’s sex but it’s not sexy, and it moves the needle for games teaching us to differentiate the two. More »
News

Heavy Rain Story Could Expand Through DLC

6:20AM Mike Fahey | While the full story of PS3-exclusive Heavy Rain will ship on the disc, developer Quantic Dream is toying with the idea of further exploring the game’s diverse cast of characters through future downloadable content. More »
Hands On

Heavy Rain Eyes On: Meet Scott Shelby, Private Eye

7:20AM Michael McWhertor | Quantic Dream’s Guillaume de Fondaumièr offered us our third official look at the developer’s PlayStation 3 game Heavy Rain at Gamescom, showing us just a few of the many possibilities that await us in the hi-def choose your own adventure. More »
Media

Heavy Rain: The Screenshots

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | You’ve seen the gameplay footage, now see the screenshots of the gameplay footage. And they’re worth a look, giving you a better idea of the “They Live” interface than a grainy web video can manage. More »
Media

Finally, Some Heavy Rain Gameplay Footage

6:30PM Luke Plunkett | It’s been a bad week for PR stunts, yes. So it’s heartening to see that when Heavy Rain comes out with gameplay footage, it actually comes out with a decent amount of gameplay footage. More »

Some Moody, Moody Heavy Rain Concept Art

11:00PM Luke Plunkett | People are really looking forward to Heavy Rain. And with good cause! Problem is, developers Quantic Dream aren’t exactly big on releasing assets for the game. So we’ll settle for concept art! More »

Heavy Rain By Numbers

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Eurogamer recently had the chance to visit Quantic Dream to see their new PlayStation 3 adventure Heavy Rain in development, and they returned with some interesting statistics on the eagerly anticipated title. More »

Heavy Rain Is About Normal People, Real Life

11:30AM Michael McWhertor | 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 »

Heavy Rain Screens Show More Eye Candy

4:30AM Adam Barenblat | It’s not hard to argue that if nothing else, Heavy Rain looks pretty unbelievable. I’m just wondering when we are actually going to be able to get our hands on the title. In the mean time, we got some more water dripping down character’s faces for you guys. galleryPost('1hr1007', 3, 'Heavy Rain Gallery'); More »

Heavy Rain Keeps Going, Whether You Die Or Not

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Seeing as it’s the spiritual successor to Fahrenheit, we can expect Heavy Rain to try a few novel things in the story-telling department. Here’s one of them: the main character can die, and the game will continue. Uh, wait, huh? I can’t really tell you too much about what the story’s about or how it’s going to work with the characters, all I can tell you that your character – the main character – can die, and the story will continue. That’s creator David Cage, who goes on to say that, yes, this means you can go on playing, just not with the main character. So long as this means we don’t have to endure a torturous QTE sequence to bring her back to life, OK, Cage, we’re interested. Heavy Rain: If the main girl dies, you can keep playing the “big story” [VG247] More »