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The commercial success of the new Ratchet & Clank reboot has excited the creators of Yooka-Laylee. Like Ratchet & Clank, Yooka-Laylee is a 3D platformer. It generated 2.1m via Kickstarter, and studio Playtonic admits it’s nervous that many of those interested in the game will already own it as a …
Read More »The Develop Post-Mortem: Insomniac retraces the evolution of Ratchet & Clank
14 years, three generations of hardware and countless innuendos after it first appeared, Insomniac’s lombax-meets-robot series of action platformers has been reborn on the PS4 – with a silver screen debut to boot. Studio head Chad Dezern walks through the franchise’s history
Read More »Ratchet & Clank scores second UK No.1
Sony’s Ratchet & Clank series continues to hold the No.1 position in the Gfk Top 40. The action platformer, which became the fastest-selling game in the franchise’s history last week, suffered a 49 per cent sales drop week-on-week. It may sound like a significant drop, but that’s a pretty decent …
Read More »Ratchet & Clank claims series’ first UK No.1, breaks Week One sales record for the franchise
Sony’s latest PlayStation 4 exclusive Ratchet & Clank shoots straight to the top of the UK charts, beating the series’ week one sales record three times over. The previous title was held by 2009’s A Crack in Time. This new Ratchet & Clank game outsold that game by ‘a factor …
Read More »The Big Game: "This is a new beginning for Ratchet & Clank"
After 14 years and 12 games, Ratchet & Clank has become a solid if unspectacular franchise for PlayStation. Almost all of those titles are decent action platform games, and the series has a loyal group of die-hard fans. But it’s been a long time since the Lombax and his robot …
Read More »Insomniac announces two extra Oculus Rift exclusives
Brawler Feral Rites and multiplayer battler The Unspoken follow previously revealed VR debut Edge of Nowhere
Read More »Ratchet & Clank will release one week before Uncharted 4
Ratchet & Clank will release slightly later in the UK than previously thought. Sony has said the PS4 platformer will arrive in the UK on April 22nd. Surprisingly, that’s just a week before the release of Sony’s Uncharted 4 on April 29th. Of course, the crossover between the game’s audiences …
Read More »Ratchet and Clank is launching in April 2016
Insomniac’s remake of the original Ratchet and Clank title is going to be hitting stores in early 2016. The studio’s boss Ted Price took to the stage at PlayStation Experience and revealed the game would be coming out on April 12th, 2016. This is shortly ahead of the launch of …
Read More »VIDEO: The Ratchet and Clank movie has its first trailer
You can get your first taste of the upcoming film based on Insomniac Games’ Ratchet and Clank franchise. The cinematic adaptation of the PlayStation IP is due out in April of next year and includes the voice acting talents of Sylvester Stallone, John Goodman, Paul Giamatti, Bella Throne and Rosario …
Read More »VIDEO: Ratchet & Clank for PS4 shown off
Sony has at last released some footage of Ratchet & Clank’s PS4 game. The re-imagining of the 2002 PS2 game was announced a year ago but today is the first time Insomniac has shown it in action. The video below also splices in footage of the upcoming film, which was …
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