Sony are re-releasing Heavy Rain at a budget price with a few bonus inclusions.

We discovered Heavy Rain Edition Modifiée rated by PEGI, the European ratings board. What’s interesting about Heavy Rain Edition Modifiée is it’s rated PEGI 16 instead of PEGI 18 (that’s like a PAL “M”).

It’s Cyber Monday and that means another day of crazy video game deals. The first batch of games are Heavy Rain, Splatterhouse (which just came out last week!), and Demon’s Souls for $14.99.

Amazon’s Gold Box is filled with PlayStation 3 games like Heavy Rain, which you can get for $39.99 all day.

The Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association picked New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Heavy Rain as some of the top video games in Japan.

Sony Computer Entertainment Europe is re-releasing Heavy Rain with a handful of extras as Heavy Rain: Move Edition.

Director David Cage reveals what moments in his life eventually inspired certain scenes in Heavy Rain. (Beware: minor spoilers)

We also check up on Spirit Tracks, whose dramatic price drop seems to be allowing it to hang onto the charts, and both portable Kingdom Hearts games. We also now have a fairly good idea of why Namco saw fit to re-release Taiko no Tatsujin.

The Origami Killer is on the loose and somehow tied to four characters: a hardboiled private investigator, FBI profiler with futuristic sunglasses, motorcycle driving insomniac, and a father. Will you foil the murderer or not? That’s up to you.

After examining Heavy Rain under a microscope, the ESRB picked and revealed the game’s most violent moment.

Between MAG and God of War III, Sony plans to release Heavy Rain in Japan. Multiple Japanese retailers, including Amazon, report Heavy Rain is scheduled for February 18.

During the PlayStation 2 period, Sony Computer Entertainment Japan passed on publishing their more violent Western developed games. Now, at Tokyo Game Show ‘09 the majority of Sony’s first party PS3 games are from the West.

Heavy Rain is a mix of an adventure game and a rapid fire quick time events. At E3 I took on the role of Norman Jayden, a FBI profiler searching for the Origami Killer.

Tucked away in a press release about a playable Killzone 2 commercial was a rough sketch of what Sony Computer Entertainment America plans to release on the PlayStation 3 this year. The list only contains some of their self proclaimed “blockbuster exclusives”. Take a look and see if anything catches your eye.   Uncharted 2: [...]