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:D Second Project I reckon

"In mid-November, Quantic Dream registered the domain singularityps4.com, suggesting a title and system for the second of two games the Parisian developer is said to be developing for Sony. Despite Cage declaring a lack of enthusiasm for the next generation of consoles, it's been evident for a while his company is eyeing future platforms.

 

"Singularity" is a rather curious and possibly revealing title. David Cage acknowledged futurist Ray Kurzweil's recent book The Singularity is Near as a chief influence on Quantic Dream's"Kara" tech demo, and Kurzweil's exploration of the synthesis of man and artificial machine is very much up the wheelhouse of what Cage likes to focus on in his games. When asked in an interview about whether he would elaborate on Kara's themes and milieu in a future game, Cage delivered a rather evasive non-answer. And Cage's games do sometimes have titles that are rather on the nose.

The singularityps4.com domain falls very much in line with past Quantic Dream domainsheavyrainps3.com and beyondps3.com, and mirrors SCEE's general preference for domains thatindicate a game's platform. Given these domain trends and Quantic Dream's status as a valued second-party Sony developer that would presumably privy to the overall strategy of their publishing partner, "singularityps4" could perhaps indicate that Sony will opt for the name of PlayStation 4 for their next console (a surprise to probably no one)—and the current codename of Orbis will vanish.

It is, however, quite unlikely that the game will come to market simply titled "Singularity."Singularity was, of course, the title of Raven Software's commercially unsuccessful time-travel-themed 2010 shooter, and Activision holds the "Singularity" trademark in multiple territories. ("Singularity" was also, oddly enough, the name of an apparently now-scrapped big-name action film at Sony Pictures about nanotechnology that Roland Emmerich and Kurzweil were collaborating on in late 2011 — something that makes me wonder if Cage possibly consulted with Kurzweil for his project.) In order to use the name in commerce, Sony and Quantic Dream will have to add some sort of subtitle or additional words to make sure their name doesn't infringe on Activision's already existing mark, assuming "Singularity" is anything more than a working title."

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Interesting... Should be a while until we hear anything about it though, with Beyond not even tied down to a date yet.



This is only the beginning. All first class Sony studios(I know QD ain't) are working on the beast right now.



Turkish said:
This is only the beginning. All first class Sony studios(I know QD ain't) are working on the beast right now.


Not all, but many yes

edit: you said first class , not first party :P that depends on who you consider to be first class lol then yes you might be right



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Kara was not a mere tech demo after all ? Just like "The casting" wasn't in 2006.

PS4 is getting more and more interesting for me.



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Sony is going to buy Quantic Dream after Beyond 2 Souls.
Beyond!



zumnupy10 said:

Kara was not a mere tech demo after all ? Just like "The casting" wasn't in 2006.

Yeah, but the casting ended up being heavily related to Heavy Rain. Exactly the same art style, and the woman ended up being a character in HR.

Kara was running on a PS3 though so... I dunno.





I really hope it is a PS4 project.  Kara for me is by far the most incredible tech demo ever made.

It just has to become a game.



Amazing and fantastic news. The amount of huge exclusives we know PS4 is getting already is blowing my mind.
Can't wait for Beyond btw!