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Rift is in a celebratory mood, with a Steam anniversary and the return of the Autumn Harvest and Halloween. 

How time flies. Somehow, League of Legends: Wild Rift launched three years ago, and, to celebrate, Riot is bringing a bunch of new content to the game on October 24.

A new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart patch is now live for the recently released PC version of the game, introducing a variety of improvements and fixes that improve the experience of the first entry in the series by Insomniac to get released on PC.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart was famously among the first PlayStation 5 exclusives made by Sony's internal studios, specifically Insomniac Games.

I'm past my MOBA days. I had a big, 2,000+ hour love affair with Dota 2 that spanned a few years, and I dabbled a bit in League of Legends too, but my tastes (and my tolerance for elevated blood pressure) changed. Still, I've kept my eye on the genre with passing curiosity. 

The Pokemon TCG’s fourth Scarlet & Violet set has been officially revealed. Paradox Rift, as the name suggests, will finally bring the time-travelling Paradox Pokemon to the trading card game for the first time, over a year after their video game debut.

Insomniac Games and Nixxes have deployed Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart PC patch 1.815.00, packing various improvements, fixes, and more.

Brace Yourself Games’ Rift of the NecroDancer has been delayed. Slated for release this year, it’s now targeting a release in the first half of 2024. The developer also confirmed on Twitter that the title is being published by Klei Entertainment, which published Crypt of the NecroDancer on PC.

NVIDIA has rolled out Geforce Hotfix driver 537.09 for the PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, which aims to address some performance fluctuations.

A new Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart patch has gone live today, finally enabling ray tracing on AMD GPUs, improving ray-traced reflections and shadows and more.

Rift Apart is just one of many PS5 exclusives discounted for PlayStation's Back to School sale.

Today, Insomniac Games and Nixxes have released a new patch for the PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. The update (version 1.728.0.0) fixes several bugs, including some visual ones, as detailed below.

With the likes of God of War, Marvel’s Spider-Man, and Horizon Zero Dawn, Sony has enjoyed plenty of success on PC with ports of its first party PlayStation titles, but not all of them have had similar luck. A handful of PlayStation’s PC releases have failed to attract sizeable crowds, and it seems the most recent one falls in that category. 

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC is for all intents and purposes unplayable without an SSD, experts have revealed.

The first Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart PC hotfix is now live, introducing some small but welcome improvements.

Much hay has been made of Insomniac's pre-release claim that Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart «would not have been possible without the Solid State Drive of the PlayStation 5,» with ourselves contributing a bale or two.

Time Rifts have introduced several new mounts. Two of these mounts, the White War Wolf and Black Gryphon, are faction-specific — but with special gift items, players can receive these mounts as a present from members of the opposite faction! Time Rifts Event Overview and Rewards

Two years after hitting the PlayStation 5 to rave reviews, Ratchet and Clank are not only making their debut on PC – but doing so with their most-ambitious entry yet with Rift Apart hitting the PC via Steam. We have seen several PlayStation console-exclusives hit the platform over the past few years – with rave reviews coming out for both Spider-Man: Remastered and Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and work being needed to get The Last of Us Part I into a good state.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is now available on PC, which means that developer Insomniac's claims that the game was only possible with the power of the PS5's SSD are being put to the test. Turns out that the developers were right.

We all know that there has been a serious issue in gaming lately regarding games being ported to PC and not being optimized to their fullest. In fact, multiple AAA titles, both ports and new games, have had this issue despite coming from quality developers. Gamers are frustrated by this as PC gaming is one of the most popular gaming methods out there, and yet, they’re the ones left holding the bag when a developer decides not to put their all into a PC port. Sadly, it appears that Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart may suffer those same issues.

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart has been Steam Deck verified as the once-PS5 exclusive action shooter is confirmed to «play great» on Valve's handheld PC. 

When it was announced that Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart’s PC port would not need an SSD on minimum settings, plenty of reminders were issued about how developer Insomniac Games touted the PS5’s SSD in the lead-up to the game’s original launch, and claimed that it had been designed specifically with that hardware in mind. As it turns out, however, Rift Apart might have been unlikely to be able to run properly (if at all) on a PS4 after all.

The PC version of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is out now. Celebrating the launch, developer Insomniac Games and PlayStation have released a PC launch trailer for the game, which you can check out below.

When I spent an arm, a leg, and a kidney on this RTX 4090, the first thing I pondered was which games to throw at it first. Obviously, Steam is littered with PC exclusive graphical delights, but I developed a weird interest in seeing how far ported PlayStation (launch) exclusives could be pushed.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has a trophy on PS5/achievement on Steam called “Lombax and Chill,” which is marked as hidden initially, preventing the player from learning how to complete it. Luckily, Lombax and Chill isn’t too difficult to complete, as it mostly involves performing a mundane action in the Sargasso stage.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart finally came to PC this week, bringing the title to another platform other than the PS5 for the first time. First impressions from fans and critics alike is that it's another quality port from PlayStation studio Nixxes, but an announcement from developer Insomniac Games earlier this week that claimed you won't need an SSD to run the game caused a bit of a stir.

The just-released PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is looking like one of the better PC ports we've seen recently. 

Digital Foundry did performance tests on the PC version of Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, showcasing storage performance using different SSDs and even the old PS4 hard drive.

An early Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart comparison video was shared online today, highlighting the differences between the PC version at max and low settings and the original PlayStation 5 release.

Insomniac Games has announced Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is Steam Deck Verified.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is a flagship PS5 title that showcases just how visually impressive games can be. It’s a phenomenal 3D platformer with powerful dimension-hopping ideas that play smoothly and satisfactorily regardless of how much players test the technology.

Hey everyone, today we are celebrating the launch of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PC.

In the last few years, Sony has been steadily porting its hit AAA titles to PC. Though most ports, such as God of War (2018) and Horizon Forbidden West, have been successful, others, like The Last of Us Part 1, have been poorly received. Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is the next title up for a PC port, and Insomniac has confirmed that it is Steam Deck Verified.

Sony has consistently made sure that the games it’s putting out on PC – of which there’s no shortage anymore – are all fully optimized for the Steam Deck, and it doesn’t look like the company’s next PC port will be bucking that trend.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has been Steam Deck Verified.

Yesterday, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart developer Nixxes Software confirmed the game would not support ray tracing on AMD GPUs at launch without providing additional information. With the release of the Adrenalin Edition 23.7.2 driver, however, we have learned more about the matter.

Insomnac has announced that its PC port of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart has been Steam Deck Verified.

By Sean Hollister, a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget.

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart will not support ray tracing on AMD GPUs at launch, developer Nixxes Software confirmed today.

Insomniac Games’ Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart will release on July 26th for PC. Nixxes Software has revealed the official worldwide timings for its release in each region.

For more than 20 years, developer Insomniac has given PlayStation gamers the cuddly mascots they deserve with Ratchet & Clank. The franchise's blend of action-packed platforming and sci-fi shooting reached new heights with 2021’s Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. Now, the PlayStation 5 console exclusive heads to Windows as a PC game. Are you ready to make the dimensional leap?

Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart launches on PC tomorrow, featuring NVIDIA's RTX features such as DLSS 3, RTX IO, and Ray Tracing which improve visuals & performance.

The Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart chapters list has been revealed and there are several planets to explore during the story of the latest in the classic Insomniac Games series. But how many missions are there?

I can say with a degree of certainty that Harsgaard, the final boss of Remnant: From the Ashes Subject 2923, is going to kill you. After you get back to Earth, you need to fight him, and it is going to be a rude interruption to the bullet-hell style of the final fight.

It looked like the upcoming PC version of Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart had already exhausted its supply of glossy, Windows-exclusive features to show off; we already knew it’s coming with DLSS, DLSS 3, FSR 2 and ray traced lighting and shadows. Turns out there’s plenty more, as port developers Nixxes Software have used a Sony blog post to detail quite a few new tech toys – including Rift Apart’s Microsoft DirectStorage 1.2 support.