Here's a bit of a downer: Infinity Ward has announced that Trophies will not be implemented on Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. At least, not in the near future. To compound this, Insomniac Games has posted a similar response on questions about Resistance: Fall of Man and Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction getting Trophies. Details after the jump.

If you loved Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, then you'd be interested in what old pal Quartermann has to say about its next chapter. In the latest EGM issue, the gaming seer also talks about Tecmo Bowl and a possible challenger to Mario's platform game throne from Disney. We smell a hidden Mickey! All this and more after the jump!

We've got two "behind the scenes" videos for Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction that illustrate how much work went in to two important video game elements: gameplay and animation.

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In an interview with Brian Hastings, CEO of Insomniac Games, he expresses how the PlayStation 3 will see major leaps in game development for at least four more years. He relates how the development of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction really leaped off since its previous incarnation and says that these kinds of leaps will continue on into the future.

The best things in life are free, and in this PlayStation Network US Store update, they definitely are. Sporting more than a handful of game videos that feature this generation's hottest releases for the PS3, as well as two game demos, this latest delivery of awesome comes at absolutely no charge at all. That's right, this week's selection is absolutely free and require no money-spending on your part. Isn't life sweet?

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If you've been drooling over the Sony PlayStation 3 for some time now and the arrival of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction made the temptation even stronger, you're in for a treat as Dell brings a very sweet deal to the table. If you purchase a 40GB Sony PlayStation 3 for US$ 399, you'll also get Ratchet and Clank's latest adventure plus a Blu-ray copy of Spider-Man 3 to be enjoyed in full 1080p glory.

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Here's a new video for Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction if you still haven't decided to grab a copy for your Sony PlayStation 3. No surprises here, but only pure gameplay footage and scenes that should leave you itching for some Lombax action. The trailer runs just over a minute, showing off the different sights in Ratchet & Clank's latest reiteration. There are new wacky characters, places to explore, and gadgets to play with.

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Insomniac Games' Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction">Billy Parmenter and Brian Mathison, quality assurance testers for Insomniac Games' Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, shared insights into the nature of their work in a recent developer's diary interview. Parmenter and Mathison talked about their methods of dealing with Ratchet and Clank's in-game bugs and the relationship between game testing and gaming skill, among other things.

According to Parmenter and Mathison, game testing is a lot of hard work. They've likened their system to the scientific method, where in order to locate and identify bugs, they narrow down all the variables until they get to the base of the problem. Variables are also tested, Parmenter and Mathison said, to find out what doesn't cause the bug. The two have also explained that their work hasn't really made them better players. In fact, their skills with other games have suffered after having logged so many hours on Insomniac Games' Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Detruction.

While both Parmenter and Mathison have admitted that they have a tendency to dwell on the negative aspects of games due to their training and the tedious nature of their work, the pair have also acknowledged that once the final version of a game like Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is released to the public, they, too, are amazed at what they've accomplished.

Here's another developer diary video for PlayStation 3 video game title Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction featuring Insomniac Games Tools Programmer Giac Veltri. In a nutshell, a tools programmer is the one responsible for disc creation and localization.

The previous developer diary videos we had the previous days and weeks involved how Insomniac Gamed dealt with the game engine, intuitive controls, as well as humor for Ratchet & Clank. This time, Giac Veltri talked about the game's demo, the tension of "going gold," as well as how Tools of Destruction kept him laughing all the time.

Ratchet & Clank Future; Tools of Destruction has been released early in North America. Fans in UK and Japan, on the other hand, can get it on November 7 and November 11 respectively.

In this latest developer video for Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction, Mark Lee talks about the more technical aspects of the game. The previous developer video featured Brian Hastings who talked about the game's humor and intuitive controls.

Mark Lee is an engine programmer for Insomniac Games and talks about the game's focus on frame rate and speed. Since the game is based on already existing technology, most of the work wasn't adding new features but rather in making the game run faster.