Much like Insomniac's previous PS3 effort, Resistance: Fall of Man, Ratchet & Clank mandates a brief setup procedure that copies some files onto the console's HDD. However, an unexpected glitch within the game causes it to read the hard drive as full and refuse to install under certain conditions.

"We recently discovered a bug on the US version of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction that some of you may encounter the first time you boot the game," Insomniac community manager James Stevenson told Shacknews. "With specific amounts of free space on your drive, you may see a screen that tells you have insufficient space to create game data even though there is plenty of free space on your drive."

Fortunately, the workaround is a relatively simple one. "When this occurs, either delete or add about 500MB of data to your hard drive and the problem will go away," wrote Stevenson. While this may seem a lofty chore to some, the abundance of downloads in the online PlayStation Store means that relief is, at best, a matter of deleting an old demo or two, and at worst, the task of downloading of a few additional files.

Word that Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction will arrive sooner than expected comes shortly after several retailers updated their listings with the new date. A demo of the vibrant platformer is currently available for download from the online PlayStation Store.

For more on Ratchet & Clank Future and the studio behind it, dig into our hands-on impressions and interviews with Insomniac community manager James Stevenson and marketing director Ryan Schnieder.

That said, as the colorful platformer went gold and entered the manufacturing process today, the company is quite confident in the new date.

Coinciding with the above news, SCEA line producer Greg Phillips also utilized the official PlayStation blog to confirm that a downloadable demo of Ratchet and Clank's latest outing--an optimized version of the E3 level--will appear in North America's online PlayStation Store by October 11.

Those unwilling to wait two weeks can visit the all-encompassing game retailer GameStop, which is currently offering a slightly less optimized version of the same demo in exchange for a pre-order of the title.

To learn more about the game and its weapons, such as the deadly slinky assault, check out our latest hands-on impressions.

Then on October 4, the long-awaited demo of Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction lands in Europe's PlayStation Store, or so says IGN UK. Shacknews has contacted SCEA and Insomniac regarding the timeframe of the demo's debut in North America, where the full game springs into stores October 23.

We definitely saw a lot of criticism on it, and we took that to heart, and we are going back and looking at it. We had the time fortunately to go back and reexamine our thoughts on what we wanted to do with it, and hopefully make sure it's fun.