Ratchet & Clank's Lost Game Has Been Found And Preserved

Here is a 202-word summary of the news article: Ratchet & Clank fans have uncovered a long-lost game in the franchise - Ratchet & Clank: Clone Home. This game was announced in the mid-2000s as a sequel to the mobile title Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile, but was ultimately canceled and never officially released. After years of searching, a copy of Clone Home has now been found and shared online. The game was discovered on a Sony Ericsson W880i phone by college students "Emily" and "Super Gamer Omega Clank", who managed to break the phone's encryption to uncover the playable title. In Clone Home, digital clones of Ratchet and Clank team up with their real-world counterparts to stop the villain Vox, who was a recurring antagonist in Going Mobile. The game features the digital characters existing within a video game world, which the real Ratchet and Clank get transported into later on. It's unclear why Clone Home was never released, but the preserved copy suggests it may have been due to a legal dispute between Sony and the game's developer, JavaGround. This discovery comes as a pleasant surprise for Ratchet & Clank fans, who have not seen a new entry in the series since 2021's Rift Apart.