Next PlayStation PC Port Might Have Leaked via Job Listing

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A seemingly inconsequential job listing sparked fan speculation that the next PlayStation game Sony intends to port to PC is Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. This development arrives mere weeks ahead of the highly anticipated PC release of The Last of Us Part 1, which is scheduled to launch in late March.

Released in mid-2021 for the PlayStation 5, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart started development before the PS5 was even announced and was already in the works while Sony was negotiating its 2019 acquisition of Insomniac Games. All previous installments in the Ratchet and Clank franchise were second-party PlayStation exclusives, developed by a then-independent Insomniac, but with Sony reserving the ownership of the IP itself. Ironically, after the studio became a first-party developer, the chances of a mainline Ratchet and Clank game beyond the PlayStation ecosystem actually improved due to its new parent's subsequent decision to start bringing some of its exclusives to Windows, starting with the PC port of Horizon Zero Dawnin 2020.​

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The reason why Rift Apart is now rumored to be joining that growing list of multi-platform games comes down to a recent job listing from Nixxes Software, a Dutch company Sony acquired specifically for facilitating PlayStation PC ports. The posting for a UI and UX designer discovered by Reddit user Veloxz doesn't mention the latest mainline Ratchet and Clank installment by name, but it does call for a candidate with experience in using middleware software from Coherent Labs. While Rift Apart is not the only game made by a current PlayStation Studios subsidiary that uses Coherent-made UI tech—there's also Nex Machina from Finnish studio