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David Cage, the writer/director for the upcoming Detroit: Become Human, is best in small doses. Given a single idea, the man famous for designing Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls knows how to pack a punch.

Take, for example, the Heavy Rain DLC episode The Taxidermist. It's an evocative, visceral experience, and not coincidentally, it's also 20 minutes in length.

We finished streaming David Cage's crime thriller Heavy Rain on Kotaku's Twitch channel. It's a game of astounding highs and disappointing lows, with intense action and awful writing. It's not as bad as everyone says, but it's still not very good.

In preparation for the upcoming narrative game Detroit, I've been streaming David Cage's 2010 crime thriller Heavy Rain over the last two weeks on Kotaku US' Twitch channel. Yesterday, we reached the game's most iconic and brutal scene.

Can a game be "so European, it hurts?". Apparently so, according to the latest instalment in Smosh Games' Honest Game Trailers. This time around Heavy Rain is the target, as a celebration of sorts for the remastered (and still very awkward) PS4 version.

Heavy Rain remastered is out for the PS4 this month, and boy, some aspects of the game have not aged well.

My favourite trophies and achievements in video games are the gimmick-based ones. They're not about finishing a level or getting a certain amount of headshots. They're about doing something specific, often something outlandish, silly, deliberately provocative or plain screwed up. They can add levity to a sober gaming experience, provide a diversion from a linear plot, or open the player's mind to unconsidered gameplay possibilities.

This has been a very good year for video games, but it has been an exceptional year for books about video games -- surely the best ever. I can't tell you who will win the prestigious BAGOTY award for 2015, but Cara Ellison's Embed With Games, Simon Parkin's Death by Video Game, and Michael W. Clune's Gamelife are all garnering buzz among devoted BAGOTY watchers.

"Press X to not die." It's a gaming cliche at this point, one that many view as a symptom of lazy game design. Quick time events, as they're known, are glorified cut-scenes. Things happen, and we press buttons that don't really match up with the action on screen. They can be pretty bad.

Quantic Dream, the studio behind Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls, are about as polarising as a developer gets. Some people hate their games. Some people love them! I'd like to think there's one aspect of their output we can all get behind, though: the way they include some of the world's best animation shorts in their games.

I love a game with a cool, interesting main character. But you know what I think I might love even more? A game with multiple cool, interesting main characters. Why not, right? Modern video games are huge! They've got room to spare. I love a hero as much as the next red-blooded American, but it's time to keep expanding.

Yu Suzuki and David Cage walk into a room. This isn't the setup of a joke but what ends up being a thoughtful session of comparing notes over the methods of storytelling in Shenmue, Indigo Prophecy and the upcoming Beyond: Two Souls. Take a look.

Heavy Rain got some criticism. There are whole train of thoughts that either praise or slam Quantic Dream’s experimental PS3 game. Some people love what it tried to do in terms of how play mechanics and plot continuation when certain characters died.

The past few years produced a huge amount of great games and a surprisingly decent amount of them have well-developed characters that are hard to forget. And, of course, some of them look really attractive.

Yesterday at DICE, Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two Souls creator David Cage gave a provocative talk titled "The Peter Pan Syndrome: The Industry That Refused to Grow Up."

These awesome robots and moody rooms? They're by Benoit Godde, a French concept artist at Quantic Dream who's worked on games such as Heavy Rain, Beyond and the cancelled Eight Days.

French artist Morgan Yon has worked for big clients such as Ubisoft and Quantic Dream, on games such as Heavy Rain, ZombiU and movies like Prince of Persia and GI Joe.

After seeing a lengthy demo of a level from David Cage's new game Beyond: Two Souls, that headline is more or less the best way I can describe it: The sombre, occasionally stilted tone and QTE-style controls of Heavy Rain coupled with the non-corporeal hijinks of Ghost Trick. Starring Ellen Page.

Sources tell website MCVUK that developer Quantic Dream's next game is called Beyond. Quantic Dream boss David Cage is expected to debut the game this week in Los Angeles at a Sony press event.