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Navigating a Somali war zone with supernatural help in Beyond: Two Souls

By Samit Sarkar on Jun 13, 2013 06.13.13

Beyond: Two Souls takes place over 15 years in the life of protagonist Jodie Holmes, and her adventures include a stint as a CIA operative. In the E3 demo of Beyond, which we watched Quantic Dream co-CEO Guillaume de Fondaumiere play, Holmes found herself on a tough mission in Somalia, and the main thing keeping her alive was her supernatural companion, Aiden. According to de Fondaumiere, this sequence is from the last third of Beyond, with Holmes having been recruited by the CIA and trained to be a soldier. The agency sent her into Somalia to kill a warlord named Jamaal, a mission that will be her toughest yet. Holmes was accompanied by a local boy of perhaps 8, Salim, in a nighttime raid. Here, we got our first taste of action in Beyond, and it appears to very much resemble that of H...

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Beyond: Two Souls will be 10 hours in length

By Emily Gera on Apr 29, 2013 04.29.13

Beyond: Two Souls, the upcoming narrative-driven title from Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream, will feature 10 hours worth of gameplay, this according to studio head David Cage during an event at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. This is comparable to the studio's previous narrative-heavy titles, with Heavy Rain requiring roughly eight-to-12 hours to complete and Indigo Prophecy clocking in at roughly eight hours on average. During the event, as reported by GameSpot, Cage also revealed that the percentage of players who have finish Heavy Rain has grown to 75 percent, an additional one percent since 2011. According to Cage, typically only 20 percent of gamers will complete a game in its entirety, adding that the higher completion rate of Heavy Rain is due to its reliance on...

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Beyond: Two Souls trailer features a look at protagonist Jodie’s troubled life

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Apr 28, 2013 04.28.13

A new trailer for Beyond: Two Souls, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, offers a tense look at heroine Jodie and the entity that's been connected to her since birth. You can watch the trailer above for more on the game's story. The Tribeca screening of Beyond: Two Souls was announced in March. The game is the latest title from Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream and follows 15-year-old Jodie Holmes as she struggles to understand her connection to Aiden, a mysterious and always present entity. A 35-minute gameplay video also premiered at the film festival. The footage follows Jodie as she struggles to survive and bonds with other characters. You can watch gameplay below, but be warned that it does contain some spoilers. Beyond: Two Souls is currently slated to launch Oct. 8 for...

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Quantic Dream hopes to reach larger audience with PS4 touchpad

By Tracey Lien on Apr 22, 2013 04.22.13

New interfaces like the PlayStation 4 controller's touchpad could allow developers like Quantic Dream to reach larger audiences, according to the studio's chief operating officer Guillaume de Fondaumiere in an interview with Eurogamer. Speaking at the Digital Dragons Conference in Poland this past weekend, Fondaumiere told Eurogamer that the studio is always thinking about a console's controller because it enables players to interact with a huge variety of styles of games. "In the past, we've made several propositions to Sony, who is the console manufacturer, to make sure that the controller is not a barrier to the experience for certain people who are not used to this controller," he said. "We see today the emergence of new interfaces such as the touchpad and you've seen that, for...

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Quantic Dream head discusses Japanese games and his take on the PS4

By Kevin Gifford on Apr 17, 2013 04.17.13

Have you ever wanted to ask Quantic Dream founder and CEO David Cage — a man who's certainly known for his deep and heavily character-driven games — what he thinks about the Japanese game scene? Famitsu magazine had that opportunity this week, and the answer may surprise you, given the tendency many designers have had in recent years to downplay Japan's achievements. "I've loved Japan's games for a long time, and I've always been playing them," he said. "My personal impression is that Japanese games have high creativity and really cut through the mold. Really, Western games have a tendency to just repeat the same things over and over again and be hesitant to change. I really think Japan's creators are the ones making more ambitious challenges with their work." Given what titles...

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Beyond: Two Souls influenced in part by the homeless, creative director says

By Megan Farokhmanesh on Apr 03, 2013 04.03.13

Heavy Rain creator Quantic Dream's upcoming game, Beyond: Two Souls, was inspired in its narrative by creative director David Cage's experience with the homeless, according to a recent CVG interview. Beyond's main character, Jodie, is followed by an invisible, spiritual being. Cage says that he took inspiration from mentally ill homeless people, who sometimes speak to "invisible friends." "If you see [homeless people] in the streets, and if they are not fit mentally, some of them will be speaking to an invisible friend — and they can sometimes be very angry and very upset with that invisible friend," Cage said. "One of the starting points of Beyond was me thinking about what it would be like if one of those imagined friends actually existed." According to Cage, the concept of...

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Beyond: Two Souls gameplay footage gives a glimpse of three in-game scenes

By Emily Gera on Mar 22, 2013 03.22.13

Beyond: Two Souls gameplay footage captured by CVG and posted to the official Quantic Dream YouTube account offers a nearly nine-minute look at three scenes from the studio's upcoming PlayStation 3 title. While each section is only a few minutes long, they demonstrate the overall abilities the player gains throughout the game, in addition to their purpose in gameplay segments. The first scene puts the player in the shoes of a young girl whose psychic abilities are being analyzed as part of a formal lab test. The player is held in alone in a room and tasked with deciding what shape their tester is looking at on a card. Triggering the girl's psychic abilities allows the user to see through walls and over the tester's shoulder. As the girl, the player can later move objects using...

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Beyond: Two Souls to appear at Tribeca Film Festival as an 'official selection'

By Michael McWhertor on Mar 21, 2013 03.21.13

Quantic Dream's PlayStation 3 adventure Beyond: Two Souls will make an appearance at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, Sony Computer Entertainment announced today. Beyond: Two Souls is an "Official Selection" by the annual festival, which the PlayStation Blog calls "the first such selection of this kind for a video game" despite Rockstar Games' L.A. Noire being recognized as an official selection in 2011. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002. A one-hour scene from Beyond: Two Souls will be screened on April 27 alongside a "major trailer" and a "Tribeca Talks" panel featuring actor Ellen Page and director David Cage. The event will be livestreamed on the PlayStation Blog. Beyond: Two Souls will be released on PS3 on Oct. 8.

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Beyond: Two Souls skirts the uncanny valley, says David Cage

By Samit Sarkar on Mar 21, 2013 03.21.13

Beyond: Two Souls developer Quantic Dream prides itself on the game's visual fidelity, and studio head David Cage said in an interview with The Verge that the quality of the graphics and animation will only help to tell Beyond's grand story. Beyond will depend on lifelike animation provided by Quantic Dream's performance capture technology and photorealistic graphics from the studio's artists to properly deliver the performances of the characters in the story. That includes well-known actors such as Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe, and while Quantic Dream's process captures their facial movement and body language, other animations aren't always up to par. "Is everything absolutely perfect and exactly like reality? Certainly not," Cage told The Verge. "But we worked very hard on making...

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Beyond: Two Souls launching Oct. 8, Willem Dafoe joins cast (Update)

By Samit Sarkar on Mar 01, 2013 03.01.13

Quantic Dream's Beyond: Two Souls will launch Oct. 8 on PlayStation 3, and its cast will feature Willem Dafoe in addition to Ellen Page, publisher Sony Computer Entertainment announced today. Dafoe's involvement with Beyond was rumored last June. He will star as Nathan Dawkins, a scientist sent by the government to analyze the unique supernatural powers possessed by protagonist Jodie Holmes (Page). You can watch a trailer featuring Dafoe above. The clip is a flashback to Dawkins' first meeting with Holmes, when she was a child. Sony released an interview with Dafoe as well; check it out below, along with some production photos. Sony also announced its pre-order program for Beyond today. While supplies last, all pre-order customers will be upgraded to the Special Edition of the game....

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