| | Top 10 Cinematic Gaming Trailers | 
Gavin Mannion - July 28th, 2010 | I’m a huge fan of the cinematic trailers that gaming companies are now releasing, you know the ones I am talking about. The ones that have little to no gameplay footage at all and wouldn’t be out of place in the world of blockbuster movie trailers.So to satisfy my cinematic desires I have rounded up ... [»] | 
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| Flamebait Friday Debate: Best Game Of 2010 So Far | 
Nick de Bruyne - July 23rd, 2010 | Happy Friday. Ok, that's enough of the nice talk, it's time to get down and dirty with this week's Flamebait Friday Debate.
We are already over the halfway mark for 2010 (scary, I know) and it's time to look at the games of 2010 that have already rocked our world.
The Playstation 3 has had some power this year with mega-titles like Heavy Rain and ... [»] | 
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| Heavy Rain : Move Support Added at Detriment to New DLC | 
Geoffrey Tim - July 2nd, 2010 | Heavy Rain will have full move support when Sony’s motion-controller peripheral hits retails helves later this year. Unfortunately, because of all the time spent shoe-horning motion controls, the game’s planned DLC is on the backburner. "We proposed three episodes about one hour long and being focused on the background of the main characters. I thought fans would really enjoy ... [»] | 
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| E3 2010: PlayStation Move Hands On | 
Gavin Mannion - June 25th, 2010 | There were 3 things that I was really looking forward to trying out at E3 this year. These were Kinect, 3DS and the PlayStation Move. I am one of only a few hardcore gamers who still really enjoys the Wii and the idea of a HD Wii with ... [»] |
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| PSN+ content detailed and priced (locally) | 
Gavin Mannion - June 24th, 2010 | The PSN premium service that was announced at E3 is going live on the 29th of June and we finally have the full details that were withheld from us at E3 and the good news is that the content on offer is better than expected. First up the price… We heard ... [»] |
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| In Other News – 28 May 2010 | 
Geoffrey Tim - May 28th, 2010 | Today is not just any Friday – our favourite excuse for getting plastered. Today’s James Bond creator Ian Fleming’s Birthday, so our drink of choice this afternoon is the iconic gin martini – shaken, not stirred! It also gives us a perfectly suitable reason to put up this lovely picture of Olga Kurlyenko, the most recent Bond girl. Speaking of which, tell us which one’s ... [»] |
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| Heavy Rain Movie Deal Going Down | 
Nick de Bruyne - May 20th, 2010 | A while ago we posted that the rights to a Heavy Rain Movie were snatched up a long time ago and it looks like the project is moving once again.
According to Deadline.com , "An auction of screen rights for the PlayStation3 game Heavy Rain is coming to a close. I'm told a ... [»] |
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| Heavy Rain Sells Over a Million | 
Geoffrey Tim - April 9th, 2010 | Good news for the fellows over at Quantic Dream. Heavy Rain, a flagship PS3 title and one of this generations defining experiences has sold over a million copies since its launch in February. That’s over a million people who’ve pressed “X†to yell “Jason.†I’m happy the guys are finally getting a bit of commercial success instead of just critical acclaim. ... [»] |
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| Heavy Rain’s “Visually Uneven” Says Alan Wake Mo-Cap Guy | 
Geoffrey Tim - March 30th, 2010 | Mark Carson, head motion capture specialist at CaptiveMotion – the company responsible for Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake’s Motion capture - has said the Quantic Dream PS3 exclusive was technically incredible but flawed. “It’s beautiful and brilliant but visually uneven at points, which unfortunately is the nature of the industry because of the scope, budgets and time-frames required,†he said, in an interview with VG247. “I would ... [»] |
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| Zero Punctuation: Heavy Rain | 
Gavin Mannion - March 18th, 2010 | It’s Thursday which means it’s Zero Punctuation day, this week Yahtzee is reviewing Heavy Rain and…Well I don’t know really, I was up pretty much all night and then overslept this morning and haven’t even watched it.So hopefully it’s funny and as always I am pretty sure the language is shocking and I would hesitate ... [»] | 
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| Peter Molyneux : Heavy Rain Will “…Show the way forward to a new form of entertainment” | 
Geoffrey Tim - March 17th, 2010 | Peter Molyneux has been known to mouth off about the technical and artistic advancements in his own game, normally before they’re released and then apologising about them not living up to his promises after they’re available. Turns out he’s equally capable of heaping glowing praise on other people’s games – and he did just that quite lavishly with Quantic Dreams’ Heavy Rain. Speaking with writer ... [»] |
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| NSFW: If The Movie Se7en Was Made Like Heavy Rain | 
Nick de Bruyne - March 3rd, 2010 | I don't know about any of you, but when I was playing Heavy Rain it felt like a large part of the atmosphere was very similar to that of the movie Se7en with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman.
Sure, Se7en (feeling silly writing this name already...) was a lot more brutal in so ... [»] |
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| The Games as Art Debate – Is it Over? | 
Geoffrey Tim - March 2nd, 2010 | There’s been a much debate, between erudite intellectual types as to the merits of video games as a form of art. Roger Ebert, famously, sits as the most vociferous opponent to the medium being considered high art. It’s something that could be debated endlessly and tirelessly from both sides.Tate Britain, the National Gallery of British Art, may ... [»] |
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| Heavy Rain Sales Off To A Great Start | 
Nick de Bruyne - March 2nd, 2010 | Heavy Rain is easily one of the most interesting titles of 2010, if not the entire current generation of gaming.
With it's unique take on an interactive cinema experience, developers Quantic Dreams knew that Heavy Rain was a risk, with the possibility of being something great. I believe that it is the latter, and was heavily ... [»] |
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| Heavy Rain Film Rights Snatched Up Ages Ago |
Nick de Bruyne - March 1st, 2010 | Heavy Rain is out now and in case you didn't notice, we really loved it.Being a game that keeps itself as close to a cinematic format as possible, the possibility of a movie was likely to be on the cards, provided that the game was popular enough to warrant its production.It looks ... [»] |
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