While it can get a little tiresome writing about Sony’s studio on a daily basis, there’s so much coming out about them that it’s impossible to ignore.
The Rhysida group released about 1.67 terabytes of files after the studio failed to meet their demands in the ransomware attack, and there’s a lot of interesting data in there. Writing for Bloomberg, Jason Schreier reports that Insomniac Games has been working on a project called Spider-Man: The Great Web for the past few years. This would have been a multiplayer Spider-Man game where you would have fought criminals in New York with other players, but the studio canceled the project “a long time ago,” so it may have been an early cancellation.
A planned release date is unknown, so we don’t know if the studio would have released Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 before or after, which could still take some elements from the canceled project, as we learned from the attack that an online game mode could come to the game, released for PlayStation 5 in the fall, in 2024 as a Peter Parker finale. Speaking of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, let’s look at this game from another angle…
There will be a PC port of the game, although it remains to be seen if this title will reverse the aforementioned downward sales trend. The port isn’t finished yet, but we can already see images of it, as Twitter user Visceral has uploaded an album of images of the port in development to Imgur. We wrote earlier that the port has double the budget of the first one, and the leak suggests that Insomniac Games will finish development by the end of March, the end of the fiscal year.
However, don’t expect Sony to release Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 on PC in the spring, as it has become the best-selling first-party, internally developed exclusive on PlayStation 5, and the company usually waits a year to release a PC version!
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