But one night about a month ago I went into Niño Viejo, and heard this loud, strange noise—clank clank clank.
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Sound reverberated everywhere, from the endless click of heels to the cacophonous clank, clank, clank of hundreds of bottles of soda being wheeled on metal carts.
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I can hear the clank-clank of cowbells on the cattle on a far hillside — so small they look like burnt popcorn.
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CLANK, CLANK, CLANK … The overwhelming power is hard to describe as a 30-ton Mark 2 Navy Stockless anchor and its over 1,000-foot chain is let go through the hawse pipe in the forecastle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72).
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Tomorrow a new game launches on the PS4, an incredibly gorgeous reboot of the original Ratchet & Clank, which will be followed by the theatrical debut of the Ratchet & Clank movie on April 29th.
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Every time you turn on the sink, your pipes clank.
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Ratchet & Clank is released for PlayStation 4 on April 22.
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Which is more Ratchet & Clank than Gears, to my mind.
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Children's Books They HUFF, they ROAR, they CLANK, they MOVE!
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A loud clank when it hit the floor made her startle.
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This seems to be the case for Ratchet & Clank as well.
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The aforementioned Italian missions feature your character dressed in several bulky, iron armor plates: to walk through these levels, listening to his heavy breathing and the steady clank-clank of his footsteps, conveys struggle and endurance.
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You have, of course, the slurs like "clank" scrawled on the walls.
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ANDY WEBSTER "Ratchet & Clank" is rated PG (Parental guidance suggested) for — what?
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Ratchet & Clank will be released for the PlayStation 4 on April 12.
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Plates clank in the kitchen as 0003-year-old Asha does the dishes.
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Insomniac is best known for the Resistance series, Ratchet & Clank, and Sunset Overdrive.
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Saturn's rings clank together as you float by, and it feels completely natural.
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There was the clank of cooking and the mineral smell of coal smoke.
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That was the last anyone heard of this unlikely duo and its colorful array of allies and enemies—until now, and a new Ratchet & Clank that, in the time-honored tradition of reboots across all media, is simply titled Ratchet & Clank.
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But Shadow of the Colossus isn't Crash Bandicoot, or Ratchet and Clank, or DOOM.
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Watching the generic computer-animated "Ratchet & Clank," you're flooded with reminders of familiar characters.
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The new Ratchet & Clank game is the best possible commercial for the upcoming animated movie.
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Insomniac Games is best-known for a few big franchises, including Ratchet & Clank and Resistance.
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Chains around their ankles clank with each step, a steady beat punctuating the engines' roar.
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A Jason Derulo song battles for aural supremacy with the perpetual clank of the slot machines.
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Mike Diver and Emma Quinlan have both been playing the new Ratchet & Clank, on PlayStation 4.
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Spend your lunch break hiking, and clank craft beer with a like-minded community after work.
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Sunset Overdrive draws much of its inspiration there from another notable Insomniac favorite: the Ratchet & Clank series.
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The outer space adventures of Ratchet & Clank have enough heart to make a Pixar devotee tear up.
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The EP explores a recklessly harsh and abrasive sonic pallete—all jagged, acid rotten metallic clank and warped.
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Few games are as gorgeous and joyous as "Ratchet & Clank," a beautiful re-mastering of the original game.
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During the night, your furnace flips on and off, radiators clank, neighbors slam car doors, and dogs bark.
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We need to figure out what we all want to make, and I will clank away on my keyboard.
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It's basically a new Ratchet & Clank game, just one that goes over the same basic story as the original.
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What makes "Ratchet & Clank" stand out is its bizarre, goofy world, its iconic characters, and how those pieces interact.
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Ratchet & Clank, the 13th game in the Sony franchise since it started in 2002, is none of these things.
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Look at Treasure Island Dizzy, and then at, I don't know, the Ratchet & Clank reboot of earlier this year.
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Fembots constantly clank across our screens, in movies as tonally distinct as Austin Powers, Ex Machina, and Alita: Battle Angel.
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AFTER a bruising workout in the primaries, both parties are supposed to clank back into line for the general election.
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Going outside in space, with Clank, was one time I stopped and just drank in what was on the screen.
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I haven't seen all that Ratchet & Clank has to offer, by a long shot—just a handful of early planets.
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Photo: Victoria Song (Gizmodo)When you plunk down the Apple Card to split a bill, it makes a satisfying clank.
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Before the Bernie Bots clank into action, let me hasten to say I'm not positing moral equivalence between Sanders and Trump.
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But Insomniac is also responsible for the long-running "Ratchet & Clank" games, as well as the "Resistance" first-person shooter franchise.
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Ratchet & Clank studio Insomniac Games has released several Rift titles, and it's working on the upcoming open-world Rift game Stormland.
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Later, you play as the defective robot named Clank who escapes from a factory so as not to be disposed of.
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It comes as no surprise that "Ratchet & Clank" is built around a PlayStation video game series that first appeared in 2002.
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But Insomniac is also responsible for the long-running "Ratchet & Clank" games, as well as the "Resistance" first-person shooter franchise.
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A movie based on PlayStation console game Ratchet & Clank has performed below expectations at the box office since its release in April.
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But the game will feature a strong combat component, and for that, Insomniac says it's drawing on its rich history with Ratchet & Clank.
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Back in January the company announced its first publishing project, a collaboration with Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games called Song of the Deep.
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Or if you try to close the ultra-slim case with an 8-inch-tall heatsink on your overclocked CPU, it'll just clank.
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"Spider-man", due for release in 2018, is being developed by Insomniac Games, the group behind PlayStation offerings such as "Resistance" and "Ratchet & Clank".
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At launch, it might have drowned under expectations for something much grander, but having been given a little breathing room, Ratchet & Clank has blossomed.
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It's the same for a laptop — you don't want to hear a clank when you close it, or a scraping noise when you open it.
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Instead, he calls on his army of sonic robots—a collection of small, motorized creations that click, clank, and whirr in an intricate mechanical symphony.
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The new Ratchet & Clank on PS4 is technically billed as a reimagining of the original, a modern update to a nearly 15-year-old game.
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The dishes were served during the presentation, and the clank of silverware and clicks of cameras snapping shots of the $22 crepe were clearly audible.
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Devil is Fine hosts songs that join the clank of chains with heavy, hypnotic riffs, and that combine the xylophone with demonic chants in Latin.
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Every time the floodlights on an astroturf pitch flick off and you hear the distant clank of a chainlink door closing up for the night.
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Shout out to Ratchet & Clank, too, for brilliantly manifesting my memories of that series in its PS2 days, rendered anew in almost-Pixar-like gorgeousness.
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It's being developed by Insomniac, a studio best known for the Ratchet & Clank series as well as the largely unheralded open-world action game Sunset Overdrive.
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Ratchet & Clank isn't open-world by any stretch; instead, it ushers you down a series of corridors, pushing you quickly from one area to the next.
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Since its founding in 1994, the studio was directly tied to PlayStation, creating popular series like Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, and Resistance: Fall of Man.
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As the director of the upcoming Ratchet & Clank movie, based on the long-running PlayStation series, it's something he has no choice but to think about.
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Spider-Man, the latest game from Ratchet & Clank developer Insomniac Games, understands this core tenet of its central character, and it's what makes the game sing.
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Just last week, Insomniac Games, the studio behind the Ratchet & Clank and Resistance series, released its new virtual reality brawler Feral Rites for Oculus for $49.99.
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And what else I'm saying, based on what I've seen so far, is that Ratchet & Clank might well be the best current-gen reboot so far.
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In January, the company had announced that it would publish the next game from Ratchet and Clank studio Insomniac, an adventure game called Song of the Deep.
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Fourteen years ago, the climax of the first Ratchet and Clank hinged on a betrayal: superhero blowhard Captain Qwark (think The Tick in space) turning on Ratchet.
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It's a canny way to explain away any narrative differences between the original Ratchet and Clank and this one—but also a winking move toward self-awareness.
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Though only teased at last year's E3, Sony finally showed us some real gameplay from the new Spider-Man game, coming from Ratchet & Clank vets Insomniac Games.
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Spider-Man is the first licensed title from Insomniac Games, best known for Playstation exclusives Resistance and Ratchet & Clank, along with Sunset Overdrive on the Xbox One.
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I was placed in a birdcage in the program office and left to wait, listening to the stutter and clank from the sewing machines on death row.
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"By 2003 Super Mario Sunshine, Jak II, and Ratchet and Clank 2 were out… there were much more ambitious titles by bigger companies coming out," he said.
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Sony has announced that it'll be acquiring Insomniac Games, the game development studio behind the Ratchet & Clank series and, most recently, Marvel's Spider-Man for the PS4.
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Not only do they clank their jewelry and smack their lips, but they steal too many pens and call in sick when they are actually hung over.
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Still, players can take some condolence in this March's upcoming PS4 games, where Sony is offering Bloodborne and the rebooted Ratchet and Clank as this month's free games.
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Both Bernal and his co-founder Eric Christensen have a history in the games business, coming from Insomniac Games where Bernal worked on the Ratchet and Clank title.
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Facebook has no interest in driving them away, even if helps the occasional conspiracy theory about President Obama being a Lombax from the Ratchet & Clank universe go viral.
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Though it's played with a virtual reality headset, Edge of Nowhere is an otherwise traditional third-person platforming and action / stealth game, developed by Ratchet & Clank studio Insomniac.
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Directors aside, it was a veteran sound-effect expert, Jack Foley, who jangled his keys to simulate the clank of the Romans' armour in Stanley Kubrick's "Spartacus" (1960).
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The latest attempt — and one of the last before Oculus gears up to release its Touch controllers — is Feral Rites, a colorful brawler from Ratchet & Clank studio Insomniac.
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With numerous nods about being a soft remake and countless cameos by characters and weapons you've completely forgotten, the new Ratchet & Clank is weirder than it is interesting.
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Spanish is the language and the electric current at Ajo y Orégano, where forks clank over a low throb of salsa, merengue and bachata from two decades past.
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Available on: PlayStation 4 If Pixar made a sci-fi movie featuring lovable characters and outrageous guns then turned it into a game, that game would be Ratchet & Clank.
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The game doesn't have a title yet, but we know that it comes from Insomniac Games — makers of fast-paced, good-humored titles including Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive.
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Cerny, who's worked on everything from Crash Bandicoot and the first Uncharted to Spyro the Dragon and Ratchet & Clank, is a game industry veteran with some considerable hardware experience.
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His brainy sidekick, the robotic Clank, resembles a diminutive take on the title character from "The Iron Giant"; his voice could be a bookwormish twist on Marvin the Martian's.
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"I grew up in a house with creaky floors, and the pipes would clank, but there's something that feels solid and well-built about this house," Ms. O'Shaughnessy said.
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ISTANBUL (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - With the clank and clatter of construction vehicles and clouds of concrete dust, a walk through Istanbul's Fikirtepe district is a shock to the senses.
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This was the challenge I encountered while demoing Insomniac Studio's (makers of Spyro, Ratchet, and Clank, and that new Spiderman game on PS4) new game Seedling on the Magic Leap.
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Wade, for example, had very strong opinions on how Clank, a diminutive robot, should move, constantly telling the team that he needed to walk as if he was a toddler.
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PS Now currently features more than 400 games to stream, and while there's some filler, that also includes big franchises like Ratchet & Clank, Resident Evil, God of War, and Uncharted.
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The synthesizers play like jagged sheets of metal, slicing and disrupting their guitar riffs, and the riffs themselves clank and creak, like large, rusty industrial machines casting spooky, distorted shadows.
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It might be useful, if you can, to plan to break for lunch around the same time, so people can check in with each other and clank plates with impunity.
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It might be useful, if you can, to plan to break for lunch around the same time, so people can check in with each other and clank plates with impunity.
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You can see the lace of a curtain as sun streams through it in Last of Us, or you can better see a reflection off a window in Ratchet and Clank.
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Ratchet & Clank, a series about cartoon space people with more gimmicky guns than respect for public property, is not so full of itself to avoid the facts of its own existence.
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"Insomniac Games condemns all forms of hate speech," Insomniac Games, makers of big-budget console games like Ratchet & Clank and one of the biggest developers making games for Oculus, told Motherboard.
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In the basement of the Congregation Sons of Moses synagogue on the Lower East Side, hulking iron machines rattle and clank amid rolls of colored paper and strips of dark leather.
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For Insomniac Games — the makers of Ratchet & Clank, Sunset Overdrive, and the new Spider-Man game for the PlayStation 4 — Stormland is a culmination of years of investment in the VR space.
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But if that battery case makes the same satisfying clink-clank sound when you open and close the lid like a Zippo lighter does, I might be already reaching for my wallet.
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His favorite real gun is the German HK G3—"it has a lot of oomph"—while his favorite game gun is, shockingly enough, the Groovitron from Ratchet & Clank, which makes enemies dance.
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Seven more "honorable mentions," because why not (click each title for more): Ratchet & Clank Pony Island Stardew Valley Hyper Light Drifter Action Henk Overwatch Dark Souls III Follow VICE Gaming on Twitter.
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He certainly wasn't supposed to be standing at home plate watching a season-saving home run clank off the right-field foul pole in Game 5 of the American League Championship Series.
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Meanwhile, beyond the tweets and bombast, the machine that sends immigrants from arrest to deportation will clank along with alarming efficiency until it's stopped by a new administration — long after Sessions is gone.
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For the most part the game is really charming; Ratchet and Clank have a playful rapport, and though the story itself is pretty flimsy, the cast of goofy characters helps pull it through.
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Song of the Deep isn't the only Insomniac game currently in development: the studio is also working on a reboot of the original Ratchet & Clank, and the virtual reality game Edge of Nowhere.
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The collaboration between the film team and Insomniac is something unique, then, and a reason that the Ratchet & Clank movie could end up as one of the rare game-to-film success stories.
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Sitting here, writing introspectively and listening to my radiator clank as it bakes the moisture out of my apartment, it&aposs easy to start looking for a new slip of skin to pull.
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After watching his team clank and wheeze in the first half against the Rockets, punctuated by a fumble-finger Green pass to a surprised fan in the third row, Kerr called a timeout.
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Judge dented it with his major league-leading 26th home run of the season, a line drive that left the bat with a crack and landed, roughly 23 feet away, with a clank.
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It was half-ruined, open to the air, and surrounded by metal gratings; one steel bar was loose, and the prince moved it aside with a great clank so that we could enter.
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It just released a rebooted version of its classic Ratchet & Clank, and its new game Song of the Deep — a 2D side-scrolling adventure set under the sea — is coming out on July 12th.
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The "clank" graffiti itself might feel hackneyed, but there's little doubt that most of it looks properly placed, as though there's an offensive scrawl somewhere out in the real Prague that this one replaced.
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The legendary game studio Insomniac Games is most well-known for its work on the "Ratchet & Clank" game series, but had its greatest success with 2018's "Marvel's Spider-Man" on the PlayStation 4.
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The work of California studio Insomniac Games, also the creators of the original Spyro titles, the Ratchet & Clank series earned critical praise aplenty and a spaceship load of cash during the PlayStation 2 era.
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It was hard not to imagine, watching Thursday's clank-fest, what the inclusion of a 7-foot bucket-getter with a point guard's handle and access to every shot in the book might have meant.
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The legendary game studio Insomniac Games is most well-known for its work on the "Ratchet & Clank" game series, but had its greatest success with 2018's excellent "Marvel's Spider-Man" on the PlayStation 4.
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While Insomniac returned to Ratchet & Clank this year with a beautiful new entry on PS4 (a CG movie is also coming to theaters later in April), it's also working on the trio of VR titles.
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As does the focus on crazy new gadgets: within an hour of playing I was flying around using a helicopter add-on for Clank, while Ratchet fended off lizard creatures using a space-age flamethrower.
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The Kickstarter success is illustrative of an appetite for 3D platformers of this style, with this heritage, on modern platforms, and 2016's Ratchet & Clank reboot showed that historic franchises can return in glorious ways.
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If you're looking for a good game to play with kids, you could do a lot worse than "Ratchet & Clank" — though you're just as likely to have a blast if you're playing exclusively with adults.
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FRED made me laugh because I had just been thinking about a scene in "Portlandia" that's resonating with me these days as I clank around among my four walls noticing all the clutter that's accumulated.
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The plot might be mostly recycled, but Ratchet & Clank isn't popping into existence simply to turn a few nostalgia dollars—there's palpable love and care here, enough to make newcomers to the franchise turn their heads.
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Since then he's served as designer, programmer, producer, and/or consultant on many of PlayStation's biggest franchises, including Spyro the Dragon, Jak and Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Uncharted, Resistance, God of War, Killzone, and The Last Guardian.
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And the animated "Ratchet & Clank," released by Focus Features on its Gramercy label, flopped with $4.8 million in ticket sales, becoming the latest example of a popular video game that failed to translate on the big screen.
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GUANGZHOU, China — For nearly seven years, Li Wei rose before dawn for his 10-hour shift at the steel plant, returning home each night soaked in sweat, the clank of heavy machinery still ringing in his ears.
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"There are buyers for luxury goods, but in terms of volume, it may not be there," she said during a tour of the high-ceilinged lobby, speaking over the drone of buzz saws and the clank of hammers.
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The backpack-carried Clank becomes modified a number of ways—a helicopter attachment to allow for longer leaps comes as standard, and when the pair find themselves submerged, he produces a pair of engines for rapid underwater movement.
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Yet we never forget for one second that we're watching actors in fancy dress; behind the curtain of cattle cars and starving workers, above the noise of the explosions, we can hear the moviemaking machinery clank and whir.
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With a squeak and a clank, the car (which had a placard warning passengers not to "shake or rock") swung away from the landing and began climbing alongside the face of the mountain, several stories above the ground.
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Insomniac Games, known for its Ratchet & Clank series as well as the more recent Sunset Overdrive, now has three VR games in development for the Oculus Rift — including one for the Oculus Touch motion controllers coming out this year.
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Assassin's Creed is the fourth 2016 movie based on a popular video game series, following Ratchet & Clank, The Angry Birds Movie, and Warcraft, some of which made money at the box office, but all of which were critical failures.
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"Sunset Overdrive" is made by the same people behind the "Ratchet and Clank" series, so there are a wide variety of both goofy and totally badass weapons to choose from, including a rocket launcher that shoots explosive teddy bears.
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They clank 20-footers and throw passes into the second row, Budenholzer massages his eyelids, and this otherwise good basketball team suddenly resembles nothing so much as a piece of performance art about the accumulating frustrations of adult life.
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On Monday, Kotaku reported that Sony had bought Insomniac Games, a development studio with a history of working on Sony's platforms on franchises like Ratchet & Clank and the recent, extremely successful (and quite good) Spider-Man for the PlayStation 4.
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I appreciate that video games have changed in many ways since the first Ratchet & Clank came out in 2002, that the ways in which we use the interactive medium to tell stories and stir emotions has come on leaps and bounds.
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I've played three Ratchet & Clank games in my life and it does feel like the experience I had with all of them, especially Tools of Destruction; but it also feels new and fresh, which is why I'm so drawn to it.
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GUANGZHOU, China — For nearly seven years, Li Wei rose before dawn seven days a week for his 10-hour shift at the steel plant, returning home each night soaked in sweat, the clank of heavy machinery still ringing in his ears.
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Sticking strictly to PS4-available games, given that NMS isn't ever likely to ever be ported over to Xbox, we've seen The Witness, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Firewatch, and Ratchet & Clank all rate highly with reviewers and sell in impressive numbers.
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Konami's Rocket Knight Adventures was, come on now, a Sonic-beater in '93, and its sword-swinging star Sparkster, an opossum with a rocket pack, would look perfectly at home beside the revived Ratchet and Clank, in a shiny new PS4 form.
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It is all a long way from his beginnings as a writer, when he mulled over stories through the night seated at his olive-green Remington typewriter, muffling the clank of the keys with a blanket so as not to wake his wife.
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Insomniac Games, a AAA studio which worked on the Ratchet & Clank series and more recently on Sunset Overdrive, has also dedicated a small team to Edge of Nowhere, an action adventure game in the style of Uncharted set in a Lovecraftian Antarctica.
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Critics often lean on the tired cliché of how blockbuster video games are like "playing a movie," due to the linearity and astounding aesthetic qualities of so many triple-A releases—but Ratchet & Clank really is like that, and with good reason.
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Since that catastrophe traumatized kids all across the globe, there have been many more failed attempts to make a good video game movie, including Street Fighter (1994), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), Resident Evil (2002), and, most recently, Ratchet and Clank (2016).
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In fact, it looks so good that it mostly made me wonder why it's taken so long for a Ratchet & Clank movie to exist — the PS4 game is launching on April 12th, while the debut CG animated Ratchet movie hits theaters on April 29th.
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Whether you choose to ring in 2017 with the drop of a ball, the clank of a champagne flute, a sweet midnight kiss, or breaking out into a tribal dance sequence to open up a portal into another dimension, we certainly hope it's magnificent!
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RUSSONELLO A prepared piano — with objects on the strings that damp some notes and make others clank or peal — is at the center of the compositions on "Ultraviolet," a new album by Kelly Moran, who has lately been a keyboardist with Oneohtrix Point Never.
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For bird watchers, bike riders and day-trippers from Hong Kong, the wetlands offer welcome respite from the city's crowds, even if the sound of birdcalls is regularly interrupted by the clank of hammers and the beep-beep of reversing vehicles from an industrial district nearby.
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The news isn't totally surprising: Insomniac has long had a close relationship with Sony, developing PlayStation-exclusive titles like Spyro the Dragon, Resistance, and the aforementioned Ratchet & Clank and Spider-Man, so bringing Insomniac in-house as a first-party studio makes a lot of sense.
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Later, she would wonder if it was the closing of Kim's front door that marked the beginning of it—the perhaps unintentionally heavy thunk of wood striking wood, the snick of the latch, the gentle clank of the pressed-tin welcome sign bouncing against the decorative cut-glass window.
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In addition to a new Ratchet & Clank and an upcoming Spider-Man game on PlayStation 4, Insomniac signed up to release three Oculus Rift titles this year, spanning genres and aesthetics — besides Feral Rites, it's behind horror platformer Edge of Nowhere and upcoming multiplayer dueling game The Unspoken.
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This reimagining of the first Ratchet & Clank might lean on the past for its inspiration—its story, narrated by an incarcerated Captain Qwark, is a retelling of what unfolded back in 2002, where grease monkey Ratchet and his pal become Galactic Rangers, and, you know, save the universe.
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With just under three minutes left and the Thunder trailing by 3 points, Westbrook dribbled hard at the basket and, without any apparent shadow of self-doubt, stopped to rise for a pull-up jumper — precisely the shot I had watched him clank so many times before the game.
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Defying the seamlessness of a digital presentation, the transitions between the slides are announced by a chug and a clank, a mechanized intake of breath that is both affecting and alienating, a robotic sound that underscores the distance between the two speakers, which in turn only intensifies their attempts to connect.
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Creature Box, a character design company created by longtime Insomniac artists Dave Guertin and Greg Baldwin, worked on the movie, while T.J. Fixman, a writer on many early Ratchet games, created the first draft of the script (he followed that up by writing the recent Ratchet & Clank reboot on PS4).
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The first Ratchet and Clank film is out at the end of April, mere days after this game, and follows a very similar plot: The Blarg, led by Chairman Drek, have fucked up their world, so now they're going after other ones with only Ratchet and company to stop them.
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Sitting somewhere between the never-bettered shuffle of 2-step at it's wonkiest and the contemporary clang and clank of forward-thinking club music, "I,U, Us (Murlo Remix)" is a gloriously gloopy slammer that's going to sound absolutely perfect when you hear it over the weekend whilst cradling a pair of vodka and lemonades.
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A cartoony sci-fi action-platformer where gunplay frequently comes into the equation, starring a "Lombax" mechanic called Ratchet—he's an anthropomorphized alien cat, I suppose—and a teeny robot called Clank, the series ran on through the PS3 period, with releases like the coop-orientated All 4 One and A Crack in Time.
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Studios like Ratchet & Clank creator Insomniac Games have released videos strongly opposing Trump's order, while the studio behind Dots & Co and Two Dots recently introduced an in-game popup encouraging players to donate to the American Civil Liberties Union, and other studios have offered all or part of their profits to similar organizations for a limited time.
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The word disperse has appeared in 141 New York Times articles in the past year, including on March 14 in "Labor Protests Multiply in China as Economy Slows, Worrying Leaders" by Javier C. Hernández: GUANGZHOU, China — For nearly seven years, Li Wei rose before dawn for his 10-hour shift at the steel plant, returning home each night soaked in sweat, the clank of heavy machinery still ringing in his ears.
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But know that it's this way for all of us — even for Michel or Jean-Claude, who cranked out perfect galettes all day and all night otherwise and used to christen his griddles every morning with his first few disasters, scraping the duds with his long metal spatula right into the trash bucket at his feet, with a little flourish of the wrist and one hard clank on the griddle top to ceremoniously ring its death.
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