Insomniac Games has expanded to Durham, North Carolina and has a team of 30 working on the first cooperative Ratchet & Clank game. Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One for PlayStation 3 will offer four-player co-op gameplay and an original story that blends the franchise’s trademark tongue-in-cheek humor. Chad Dezern, studio director at Insomniac Games’ North Carolina studio, talks about this new adventure from PAX Prime 2010 in this exclusive video interview.

The new Ratchet game is the first to offer one-to-four player cooperative, online/offline, drop-in/drop-out gameplay. Dezern said his team knew early on that they wanted to give players a chance to play in the Ratchet Universe with Ratchet and Clank at the same time. They also felt an almost moral obligation to include Captain Qwark and Dr. Nefarious into the mix because there was just too much comedy potential in bringing this group together.

“Their bumbling idiocy, prickly antagonism, and unfettered evil was a perfect reflection of how we play All 4 One here in the office,” said Dezern. “I’m looking forward to telling the story of how the four of them find themselves together . . .”

The game is about cooperative play through and through. Insomniac wanted to make it easy to get together with friends and family, get in a game and have fun in the Ratchet universe. They’re working hard to capture the feeling of fighting through amazing battles with other players, whether they are on the couch next to you or playing online half-a-world away.

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John Gaudiosi has been covering videogames for the past 20 years for outlets like The Washington Post, CNET, Wired Magazine and CBS.com. He has focused on the convergence of entertainment and videogames for outlets like Video Business, Home Media Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Gamerlive.TV and is also a freelance game columnist for Reuters and writes for outlets like Forbes.com, NVISION, Official PlayStation Magazine, EGM Now, Geek Monthly, PrimaGames.com, and Yahoo! Games. John also serves as the video game expert for NBC in Washington D.C. and has produced videogame documentaries for The History Channel and Starz Entertainment. John was named one of the Top 50 Game Journalists in the world by Next-Gen.biz in 2007. He is the co-author of Scholastic Books' How to Get into Videogames, Prima Publishing's Madden: Twenty Years of Videogame Football and Electronic Arts: The Official History.