The upcoming PSN Ratchet and Clank game has been dated. It was priced at $14.99 at E3, but Sony dropped the date on us of August 22nd.

For those of you who don’t know much about Quest for Booty, Ratchet continues the search for his missing mate, Clank, in this pirate-themed sequel to Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction. Even though Q4B is a downloadable game, it packs all of the AAA-production punch you’ve come to expect from every Insomniac Games title.

As for the gameplay, Q4B focuses heavily on exploration and platforming, along with some of new experimental action for the franchise. For example, Ratchet will use the new kinetic tether on his Wrench to manipulate the environment, and he’ll use elements such as light and shadows to his advantage.

This is high up on my priority list for August. I absolutely loved R&C Future, so I’m looking forward to checking out this PSN game in a few weeks. No Trophy support, unfortunately. According to James Stevenson, the Community Relations Manager at Insomniac, the Trophy standards were finalized about the same time Quest for Booty was completed. Oh well.