{"id":43262,"date":"2012-08-18T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=43262"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:11:21","slug":"david-cage-frustrated-over-lack-of-mature-subject-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/43262-david-cage-frustrated-over-lack-of-mature-subject-matter","title":{"rendered":"David Cage frustrated over lack of mature subject matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quantic Dream CEO David Cage has expressed frustration over the gaming industry\u2019s reluctance to tackle more mature subjects in their games.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Gamescom, Cage said, &#8220;I think we should have more courage in our industry and take more risks, because I think this is what the industry needs now,&#8221; Cage said. &#8220;I mean, how many first person shooters can you make? How many monsters\/aliens\/zombies can you kill in games? There&#8217;s a moment where we need to grow up. We need to grow up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cage calls the problem the \u201cPeter Pan syndrome\u201d, saying the mentality needs to be discarded.<\/p>\n<p>Cage is frequently vocal about this subject, saying last month that without more innovation the industry would die. He went on to say that \u201cshooters will always be successful\u201d, but the industry needs new ideas to thrive.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Gamespot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/events\/gamescom-2012\/story.html?sid=6392198\" target=\"_blank\">Gamespot<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Quantic Dreams demos amazing prototype\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33764-quantic-dreams-demos-amazing-prototype.html\" target=\"_blank\">Quantic Dreams demos amazing prototype<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Heavy Rain dev showing off new project at E3\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38600-heavy-rain-dev-showing-off-new-project-at-e3.html\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Rain dev showing off new project at E3<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Heavy Rain creator not interested in next-gen consoles\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/38107-heavy-rain-creator-not-interested-in-next-gen-consoles.html\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Rain creator not interested in next-gen consoles<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"No Heavy Rain sequel because Quantic Dream is \u201cnot in this business to make money\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/14338-no-heavy-rain-sequel-because-quantic-dream-is-not-in-this-business-to-make-money.html\" target=\"_blank\">No Heavy Rain sequel because Quantic Dream is \u201cnot in this business to make money\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Heavy Rain dev calls LA Noire tech \u201can interesting dead end\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/11027-heavy-rain-dev-calls-la-noire-tech-an-interesting-dead-end.html\" target=\"_blank\">Heavy Rain dev calls LA Noire tech \u201can interesting dead end\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinks games industry is stuck in &#8220;Peter Pan syndrome&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":43263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226,6,3,4],"tags":[31,4398,2657,6294,2633],"class_list":["post-43262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","category-nintendo","category-pc","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-david-cage","tag-heavy-rain","tag-innovation","tag-quantic-dreams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43264,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43262\/revisions\/43264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}