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From Insomniac Games:

The 13th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards will be presented at the D.I.C.E. Summit by the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) on February 18th, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time has been nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Animation," "Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering," "Outstanding Achievement in Original Story," and "Adventure Game of the Year."

The Academy will also be honoring long-time Insomniac Games collaborator Mark Cerny with an induction into the AIAS Hall of Fame. Mark has been a major contributor to all of the franchises Insomniac has created including Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet & Clank, andResistance. His guidance and mentorship has been invaluable. Mark will be the 13th inductee into the Hall of Fame, joining the ranks of Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto and the creator of the Final Fantasy series, Hironobu Sakaguchi.

Congratulations to Mark and everyone nominated this year!

Thanks to the Uncharted 2 PlayStation Heroes Skin Pack, fanboys can finally live out their fantasies of seeing characters from some of their favorite PS3 titles going head-to-head.

Resistance 2's Hale and Chimera join Cole and Zeke from inFAMOUS, along with Sev and a Helghast soldier from Killzone 2. Drake and Chloe are gonna have their hands full with this crew!

As a pre-Valentine's Day gift, we present Bancho Ratchet: the winning entry from CoroCoro magazine's Japan-exclusive A Crack in Time fan-designed skin contest. Bancho Ratchet was modeled by Insomniac and included in the game as a secret unlockable.

To play as the punked-out, pompadoured Lombax, pause the game and enter the following code:

Up, Right, Down, Left, Triangle, Square, X, Circle, R3