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Heavy Rainhas weathered some criticism recently from people who are displeased with what they believe to be a Quick-Time-Event heavy experience. Quantic Dream founder David Cage isnot happy with the situation, declaring such accusations to be “bullsh*t.” This is not a man you cross, clearly. “Bullshit! Just bullshit! I mean what’s the question? We releasedFahrenheitbefore. People know very well what the kind of balance we’re looking for is. The balance is quite similar inHeavy Rain,” Cage argues....

I’m pretty happy withthis week’s episodeof Hey Ash, Whatcha Playin’. I was kind of worried that the subject matter may have been too grim to be funny for most people (a laGeometry Wars), but the ep seems to have gotten a pretty good reception so far. If you feel the video Diggworthy, feel free to lend your supporthere. I’m also trying to convince Ashley Davis to start selling videogame hoodies like those featured in the video, but the chick won’t budge....

To celebrate this week’sCall of Duty XP eventa ton of related software has gone on sale on both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. That means that full downloadable games, packs and and avatar junk is marked down, helping take the sting off not being at this exclusive event. From what I can tell, all map packs and DLC are half off. Check out thePSNandXBLAlists for this week to see if there’s anything you need to pick up....

[Editor’s note: Community member AKK contributed a piece to ourWeekly Musing subjecton how to make gaming communities suck less. Please post your own over on theCommunity blogs. It may get read during our panel at PAX this Friday! — CTZ] Talk is cheap. Anonymous commenting on Web sites such as Destructoid is even cheaper. You know what isn’t cheap (relatively speaking)? Posting on the Something Awful forums. It costs $9.95 to do this....

Oh, look — it’s another installment of Indie Nation, wherein I highlight a really good indie game you should play. The Legend of Princessis, in the end, a pretty typical action platformer. It’s got a neat method of selling your difficulty level (choosing particular starting inventory items makes the game significantly easier or harder), it’s short but replayable, and it’s kind of interesting to see a lot of scenes and characters fromThe Legend of Zeldatransported from a top-down action RPG into a side scrolling beatemup, but it’s not going to change your life or surprise you in any way....

PlayStation Move support has been outed forinFAMOUS 2by way ofthe official websitefor Sony’s glow-in-the-dark waggle dildo. The upcoming superhero sequel from Sucker Punch has been listed among those games featuring Move. Bear in mind of course that Sony has not officially announced this, so there’s a possibility that the website could have gotten it wrong. At last count, Sucker Punch was considering Move, but hadn’t announced any final decisions. Even so, it’s beginning to look like every game that comes out for the PS3, at least via Sony, is going to have some sort of Move support, and that’s cool....

While attending theWorld of Tanksbooth to interview SteelSeries, I was approached by theWorld of Tanksteam to interview them as well; I had free time and they had tanks. Done. We tried to do the interview in their booth but we were unable to hear ourselves think, let alone record due to a horrific amount of rubbish music from the next booth over. So we did the only other thing we could do: we went outside and climbed a tank....

Frozen Codebase’s digital download title,Kick-Ass, is set to hit PlayStation Network this week for the nice price of $14.99. The game is based on the film which is based on the comic book which is, I’d hope, not based on some sh*t someone tried to pull in real life. The game follows the events and characters of the movie closely, and looks to be a top-down beat ’em up with light role-playing game elements....

I must confess: until now, I have only had a passing interest inKillzone 2. The immense hype for the title, along with Guerrilla’s admissions oftouching up their game’s screenshots— twice — has made me extremely suspicious, and the apparent lack of any palpable story screams “just another good-looking gray/brown FPS.” However, the “Helghan” trailer above finally provides me with a reason to give a damn. In addition to all the graphically-intensive fighting on display, we’re finally given some semblance of a story — and unless I’m reading into it too much, it sounds a lot like subtle political commentary on the Iraq War....

Guerrilla Games’ Mathijs de Jonge has talked about that most common element of first-person-shooters, the swearing.Killzone 2wasn’t shy of an F-Bomb, butKillzone 3is restricting itself somewhat to keep the curses more impactful. “InKillzone 2we ended up with too much of it,” admitted the director. “The thing about swearing is that it’s highly effective when it’s done right, and inKillzone 3I think there’s some swearing but if feels a lot more impactful....

WithDynasty Warriorsgames being huge system sellers in Japan, it’s safe to say that developer/publisher Koei has everything sewn up in the home country. The company, however, has never had much more than a cult appeal outside of its base territory, buthas announcedthat it is going to strengthen its focus on international affairs. Naoki Katashima has been appointed vice president of Koei’s UK, French and North American divisions, and will be overseeing all sales and marketing....

The people picking apart Hideo Kojima’s latest teases are leading us down a path of disappointment. Ateaser sitewent up for Kojima’s next game, which has now become a countdown, and people are studying and tearing apart everything about the site in an effort to crack some sort of Da Vinci Code. The latest news is that what looks to be either a “5” or an “S” flashes on the screen, leading the masses to speculate that this game will either beMetal Gear Solid 5or a brand newSnatcher....

Beta invites will be sent all throughout next week and will allow you to buy games (about 30 titles will be available initially), join the GOG community, and write reviews, if you so desire. Best of all, if you do end up purchasing a DRM-free title, CD Projekt is throwing in a code that’s good for one free Interplay game of your choosing. Count me in!