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Fellow Traveller will publish Pine: A Story of Loss, a short story-driven game about life after love from Brooklyn-based developer Made Up Games, first funded via Kickstarter back in February 2021. It will launch for Switch, PC via Steam, iOS, and Android in late 2024.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 contains several great Easter eggs, but one fan recently pointed out a missed opportunity to include a real-life tribute to one of Marvel’s greatest heroes. While Insomniac’s Spider-Man games are in a separate continuity from other recent Marvel titles like Marvel’s Avengers and Marvel’s Midnight Suns, they still feature clever nods to other famous heroes like Black Panther and Doctor Strange. While exploring the open world of New York City, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 players can visit the Wakanda Embassy and Avengers Tower — and can even pay their respects to late MCU actor Chadwick Boseman at the former.

The series has flirted with the psychedelic since its early days, but with the franchise leans fully into the trippy nature of the acrobatic plumber’s adventures. Simply hearing the premise of the original suggests a nod to drug culture, from an adult perspective, as it involves a pair of blue-collar workers from Brooklyn who leave their mundane lives behind to journey to a magical mushroom land. With the mind-bending changes to reality resulting from Wonder Flowers, it is harder than ever to deny that is a psychedelic series, and embraces that more overtly than any prior entry.

has improved upon the traversal mechanics in the previous games with customization options to allow for more traditional physics-based web-swinging and new features such as web wings, which haven't been part of an open-world game before. Developer Insomniac Games' previous games were praised for their web-swinging mechanics, but with improved loading and rendering speeds available through the PlayStation 5's hardware, its sequel has been able to build upon this for even more variety.

Upon booting up Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, I did what any self-respecting New Yorker would do: I beelined it toward my favorite part of the city as soon as possible, to see how Insomniac Games had recreated the locale. In my case, this meant veering toward South Brooklyn, even as Sandman was wreaking havoc on the infrastructure of Manhattan’s Financial District. However, as I swung beneath the gothic arches of Brooklyn Bridge, the better to glimpse the steel girders and stevedore cranes of Red Hook from a distance, the vista confirmed what I had feared deep down: My favorite neighborhood wasn’t even there.

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has latched onto our PS5 like an alien symbiote — it’s going to take a long time before we can pry this game off our SSDs. The biggest new Playstation game of 2023, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is an incredible technical achievement and an incredibly fun game. Check out our review of Marvel’s Spider-Man here for confirmation. We’re here to collect all our information in one place. Whether you want to check out all the villain cameos, costume unlockables or secret spots to visit in New York, we’ve got everything you need to know about Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 in one place.

To meet its sky-high sales forecasts for the PlayStation 5 this year, Sony Group Corp. will look for help from a superhero.

Peter Parker and Miles Morales face several threats in , but the most nightmarish characters from and aren't back for the sequel. Insomniac Games' take on New York City is full of interesting character interactions and Easter eggs. This has helped set the series apart from similar games.

The buzz surrounding the new Spider-Man 2 game is palpable and electric. Since previews and demos have been released, there has been excitement around the game’s release. Spider-Man 2 has also received many high reviews as the days inch closer to its release on Friday, 20 October 2023, and the hype has proven more than ever that we need a Superman game like this.

makes significant advancements beyond the features of its predecessors, and that includes greatly expanding the map size. The web-swinging superhero is synonymous with New York City, the skyscrapers of Manhattan being particularly well-suited for Spider-Man's preferred method of traversal. NYC contains five boroughs, however, and the first two games – and – both notably took place solely within a truncated Manhattan. adds portions of Brooklyn and Queens to the mix, practically doubling the map area, even though the game itself takes roughly the same time to beat.

A recent interview with voice actor Yuri Lowenthal, who plays Peter Parker in , revealed that the first game in the series was almost missing a key death. The beloved superhero franchise just received its third entry this week, continuing the story of dual protagonists Peter and Miles Morales. The newest game is the most expansive yet, taking players all over Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens as they go head-to-head with villains like Kraven and Venom.

The long-anticipated finally arrives this week, pitting dual protagonists Peter Parker and Miles Morales against a rich roster of new villains like Venom and Kraven. The Insomniac title has greatly expanded upon the world seen in the original and, letting players swing all over Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Actors like 's Yuri Lowenthal and Nadji Jeter of reprise their roles of Parker and Morales alongside new cast members like 's Tony Todd as Venom.

For my money, web-swinging around New York City in Marvel’s Spider-Man is perhaps the singular best game mechanic I’ve come across in the last decade or so. It feels so incredibly right, and almost everything else in that game is built off it. I never really wanted to use fast-travel features, because swinging around was much more fun, and finding hidden missions and helping citizens in trouble as you traverse NYC is almost as rewarding as following the game’s main story. Of course, a great mechanic isn’t enough to make a great game, but Spider-Man is one of the most successful open-world style games I can think of, because it felt packed without being overwhelming.

“Those slavering jaws; the lolling tongue; the rime of saliva on the grizzled chops.”

is electric, telling a breakneck story of two protagonists and everyone in their immediate circle with continually escalating, incredibly crisp gameplay. Right from the outset, feels as though it’s taken a significant step above its 2018 and 2020 predecessors. A large and varied cast of characters is impressively juggled while players are set loose as both Peter Parker and Miles Morales in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. City-wide spectacle is constantly juxtaposed with intimate, character-driven moments, all underpinned by the truly unsettling emergence of the alien symbiote hoping to reach the height of its potential as Venom.

Spider-Man 2 is one of the most confident sequels we’ve played in years. Not only does it address, often mock, and then resolve the issues of the first game, but it also introduces new mechanics to improve the best parts of the original.

Spider-Man 2's first round of post-launch DLC has been revealed and, strangely enough, it includes crossovers with a streetwear brand, a pop star, a football player, and a racecar driver.

Some people out there may already know who the new voice of Mario is.

With Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 just a week away from launch, fans are naturally excited to see what’s in store for the sequel. In a recent interview with Marvel, Insomniac creative director and game director on Spider-Man 2 Bryan Intihar talked about the many challenges that the two Spideys will be facing in their personal lives.

Amtrak wants to bring high-speed trains to the US, a country known more for pickup trucks and planes than public transit, and has recruited Andy Byford to get the job done.

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Games have released two new trailers for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2—one introducing the game’s expanded Marvel’s New York, which now features both Brooklyn and Queens, and the other introducing its Digital Deluxe Edition content.

PlayStation’s latest State of Play livestream promised to give viewers a look at the latest for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation VR 2 games, ranging from indies to “major upcoming titles” from PlayStation’s third-party partners. If you couldn’t watch September’s big State of Play showcase live, here’s a recap of all the game announcements, release dates, and other highlights from Sony’s event.

It’s almost time for Spider-Man 2, and it’s in that sentiment that Insomniac Games has revealed a brand new look at the game in today’s PlayStation State of Play. In this first look at how the sequel aims to evolve the open world concept, senior director Bryan Intihar showed off the game’s world, which has effectively doubled in size when you consider the inclusion of both Brooklyn and Queens. 

BROOKLYN—Bose has announced three new pairs of headphones that look to stave off top-notch competitors from Apple and Sony, along with a competitor to Apple's spatial audio.

The year is moving so quickly, and somehow the October 2023 games are drawing near. We’ll finally be able to continue Spidey’s story in the Insomniac Marvel universe and play a traditional-style Assassin’s Creed game. Both Sonic and Mario return to the 2D platforming genre as well. Here’s what to expect from the October 2023 games lineup.

Three new Spider-Man 2 screenshots have been published, showing off several locations players will get to visit in the upcoming sequel.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the most anticipated games releasing in the coming weeks, but the world may not be ready for what Insomniac has cooked up, according to the PlayStation Studios Director of Sound Design.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the collapsed multi-billion crypto exchange FTX, was jailed earlier this month until his trial date, following what a judge said was «probable cause to believe that the defendant has attempted to tamper with witnesses at least twice» while on bail. This related to Bankman-Fried sharing personal writing by his former partner and FTX colleague Caroline Ellison with a journalist: his bail was revoked on August 11, and he's been detained ever since in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.

HBO has released Season 2 teaser trailer for the upcoming return of Julian Fellowes’ period drama, starring Christine Baranski and Carrie Coon. The next chapter is scheduled to premiere on October 29 on HBO and Max.

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A woman in an ash-blond wavy wig bounces robotically, smiling and slightly out of breath, in front of a green-screened image of a bedroom room lit by pink fluorescent lights. Thousands of people are watching her on their phones via TikTok live when a small cartoon hot dog flashes up on the side of the screen.

Insomniac Games has explained what it means to expand Marvel’s Spider-Man 2’s open world from the city skyscrapers of New York, to its boroughs in Queens and Brooklyn.