Games industry reacts as Insomniac's decade-long plans for Marvel's Wolverine, Spider-Man, and more leak: "Truly disgraceful and shameful"

Are you ready to lose a large chunk of your life? Final Fantasy XIV has been a ridiculously rewarding time-sink since A Realm Reborn revitalised the MMORPG in 2013, and Naoki Yoshida and his team seem to have designs on a few more hundred hours of your time with the upcoming Dawntrail expansion, due to arrive this summer. As we make our way towards that hot and humid time of year, Square Enix are dripfeeding us with information to keep us slavering at our screens, and this weekend’s announcement showcases the all-new Pictomancer job class. In keeping with the vibrant reveal, the Pictomancer is a magical ranged DPS job that works in the medium of mixed aether, wielding a specialised brush to render their imaginings reality. So they’re painting their way to maximum damage, which sounds pretty awesome.

Square Enix announced the “Female Hrothgar” race, “Pictomancer” job, and more for the Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail expansion at Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2024 in Tokyo. An open beta test for the Xbox Series version of Final Fantasy XIV is also planned for February 2024.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman will not appear at the CES trade show in Las Vegas next week. But the generative artificial-intelligence fever his startup set off last year will be on full display as gadget makers race to find consumer uses for the technology.

When NASA's telescopes such as the NEOWISE telescope, Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Pans-STARRS1, and Catalina Sky Survey track a new Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA), astronomers measure the asteroid's observed positions in the sky and report them to the Minor Planet Center. The Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) then uses that data to determine the asteroid's most likely orbit around the Sun, according to NASA. Using this method, the US space agency has shed light on an asteroid that is expected to pass Earth today, January 4.

Today's a damn fine day for saving lots on "new hotness" titles and old gold too. In the first camp, we have scores like the surprisingly decent Robocop: Rogue City, the always terrific Tears of the Kingdom, and the spectacular Spider-Man 2. In the latter category, you can scoop timeless Bethesda RPGs, a few Star Warses, and Switch AAAs that rarely swoop this low. Wherever you are, there's a good to fair chance it's probably way too hot outside—so get gaming instead.

Though they’re wildly different games on the surface, Alan Wake 2 and Spider-Man 2 are sequels representing massive achievements for their respective studios. In an IGN interview, Remedy’s Sam Lake and Insomniac’s John McAdam discuss some of the intricacies of game development, and how they dealt with having two protagonists.

Alan Wake 2 and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 may not have much in common on the surface. One is a dark mystery thriller with a story that unfolds alongside its protagonists minds, while the other is a fast-paced and exhilarating action game about bright and colourful superheroes.

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Rocksteady Studios has released a new Insider Episode of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, delving more into combat and revealing some of the DC Universe characters helping out players. It also showcases the various weapon manufacturers like Star Labs, LexCorp, AmerTek, DCPD, etc.

The ransomware group that hacked Spider-Man 2developer Insomniac Games on Dec. 12 has followed through on its threat to release the stolen data if it didn’t get paid. The group, Rhysida, has posted 1.67 terabytes of data spanning 1.3 million files on its darknet site. The data includes footage and files from Insomniac’s upcoming Wolverine game, as well as the studio’s release slate for the next 12 years, sensitive commercial and strategy documents, Slack screenshots, and personnel files.

Insomniac Games seems to be going all-in with Marvel licensed games, as many of the studio's next titles will be based on popular comic book properties.