A freelance writer with over 10 years of experience. His favourite games are Kingdom Hearts, Beyond Good & Evil, and Celeste. The Ratchet & Clank series by Insomniac Games has been on a roller coaster ...

When Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart released last year on PlayStation 5, the game introduced players to Rivet, a new Lombax character. Creating a new video game hero takes a lot of creative effort, and ...

For the first time in a Ratchet & Clank game, you get to adventure the galaxy as Lombax other than Ratchet for a significant amount of the game. Rift Apart is the debut of the Lombax known as Rivet.

While they may not look the same, comparing Ratchet to Rivet will reveal many similarities as well. While they are versions of the same character, Rivet's timeline has a wildly different history that ...

Former Insomniac Games artist Xavier Coelho-Kostolny took to Twitter to reveal that several Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart developers had a heated argument over making Rivet look more “stereotypically ...

In fact, one of Clank's arms is completely gone when the game's other protagonist, Rivet, finds him. The two are a serendipitous duo for more than their dimension hopping; Rivet is also missing an arm ...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart may just be the best game since the Insomniac original that started it all back in 2002. In fact, it could be argued that the 2021 release and PS5 exclusive is the best of ...

I wrote in my last column that, despite supply chain issues, I have finally got my hands on a PlayStation 5 console, and it turns out to have been perfect timing to try one of its best games so far: ...

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is an interdimensional story, introducing counterparts to each of the nearly 19-year-old characters. Rivet, The Phantom, Captain Quantum, and more all exist as alternate ...

Ever since the very first game in the series, you’ve been able to equip Ratchet with all sorts of weapons and even pick up a few scripted upgrades that change his appearance. Now, with Ratchet and ...

With the release of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, the next generation of gaming is truly here. Despite the fact that the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X were released last November, we hadn’t really ...

The game puts the series' heroes, the plucky Lombax Ratchet and his robotic sidekick Clank, on a dimension-hopping quest where they encounter alternative versions of themselves. There's Rivet, a ...