The big story of the day it would seem would be previous Playstation Exclusive Developer Insomniac’s announcement of partnering with EA as their new IPs will no longer be exclusive to Sony platforms.

According to Kotaku, Insomniac Games will have the rights to whatever IP they develop under this new venture, as well as the reassurance to current PS3 owners that the “Ratchet and Clank” and “Resistance” will still continue to be developed by the studio for the time being.

The biggest thing I get out of this is what that one analyst has been talking about for a while about how many second-party developers will most likely be drifting towards multi-platform. First Bungie signing on with Activision and now Insomniac Games with EA, he may actually be onto something about this subject.

Of course while some second-party developers may start moving onto multi-platform development that doesn’t mean all of them are going to do the same now.

On another note still keeping in theme with the whole second-parties become independent studios for hire deal; it’s too bad that Rare wanted to be bought and owned rather than become a freelance developer like Bungie and Insomniac seem to be doing. I know they’re fine financially with Microsoft as their eternal sugar daddy, but many don’t seem to hold them with the same respect they used to garner in the last decade.

Meanwhile while Insomniac was acclaimed last generation with a constant stream of R&C games on the PS2, PS3 exclusivity and their new next IP’s have had trouble connecting with the mass market so far. Being open to any platform may help them out now in that regard. – The Ben