After teasing gamers with hints of a new title on the PlayStation Facebook page, Sony today officially unveiled the game: Rachet & Clank: Into the Nexus. Though PlayStation fans were hopeful the game was a new PlayStation 4 exclusive announcement, Into the Nexus will be out only for PlayStation 3 this holiday season. The game is a downloadable title that will sell for only $30.
The game is being developed by Insomniac, the creators of the previous Ratchet & Clank games; the Resistance and Spyro the Dragon series’; and a recent poorly reviewed shooter, Fuse. Into the Nexus will be a new single-player Ratchet and Clank game, set as an epilogue to the Ratchet & Clank “future saga,” which includes the games Tools of Destruction, Quest For Booty, and A Crack in Time.
Tha game is full of what Insomiac says are “crazy new weapons and gadgets,” and manipulating gravity will be a large part of solving the platforming puzzles in the game. The announcement trailer for the game shows as much: