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Developers around the world have shared messages of support for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games after a group of hackers targeted the studio.

Insomniac Games has suffered a large-scale leak following a recent ransomware attack, and alongside plans for multiple major upcoming titles planned for the next several years, the leak also includes details on the development budgets and sales figures for a number of titles, both released and upcoming.

A recent massive Insomniac leak has revealed several titles that the developer has lined up for the coming years, including multiple Spider-Man games, X-Men titles following up on Wolverine, a new Ratchet and Clank title, and a new IP. In addition to that, the leak has also spilled the beans on development budgets and sales figures for a number of the studio’s games.

Details about Marvel's Wolverine and other Insomniac games have reportedly been made public by hackers.

Over the last few months, the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) has been rapid. The world's biggest tech companies have made efforts to incorporate this technology into their suite of products, making the user experience a lot more convenient. However, the rapid advancements in AI have also given rise to AI scams. Yes, even the cybercriminals have jumped on the AI bandwagon. There have been several instances where threat actors have defrauded the victim by using deepfakes or fake voices. And now shocking details have emerged of  a Lucknow man who was defrauded of Rs. 45000 when he was targeted using a fake AI-generated voice of a relative. Know what happened in this AI voice scam.

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.

PlayStation PC ports have been released steadily these past few years, and it seems like the process to get any approved is relatively straightforward if the port doesn't cost much to develop.

Detailed plans revealing the future projects of PlayStation-owned Spider-Man developer Insomniac have been published online, stolen from the company by hackers.

Insomniac Games was recently hit with a ransomware attack, following which internal documents from the studio have begun appearing online, leaking details on a number of unannounced plans for future titles.

Chainsaw Man fans, rejoice: MAPPA announced on Sunday that a new anime film is currently in production, continuing the story of Denji’s time as a Devil hunter following the events of the anime’s first season.

Seeing something from a series or franchise you love get the Lego set treatment is a pretty big deal, especially if you plan on buying those sets and building them yourself. Multiple elements from the Marvel and Star Wars universes have been turned into Lego, as has Mario and half the Mushroom Kingdom. All such big franchises that you might think since No Man's Sky isn't on that same level, it might not be considered for its very own Lego set, but that's where you're wrong.

The latest rumors for seem to suggest that and will be appearing in the film and fans are curious if there’s any truth to the rumors. Here is all you need to know.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the biggest games of the year, and we were big fans, even if it didn't stray enough from the established Insomniac formula for our taste. Still, it seems we weren't the only ones surprised to find that, despite being nominated in seven separate categories, Sony's latest PlayStation exclusive didn't bag a single statue at The Game Awards.

Free-to-play 3D action game One Punch Man: World will launch for PC, iOS via App Store, and Android via Google Play on January 31, 2024 in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, and on February 1, 2024 in Europe, Middle East, and North Africa, publishers Crunchyroll Games and A Plus Japan announced with developer T3 Studio.

Insomniac Games has confirmed it has a significant PS5 update for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in the works, but players will need to wait until early 2024 to download and access its all-new features. The studio shared the news on Twitter having previously stated it wants to get New Game+ out before the end of this year. While a few more months of development are required to get it ready, it'll now be accompanied by a number of new features.

Like previous entries in the series, Mortal Kombat 1 is rolling out plenty of DLC fighters, with the game’s first “Kombat Pack” including Omni-Man from Invincible, Quan Chi, Peacemaker from Suicide Squad, Ermac, Homelander from The Boys, and Takahashi Takeda.

A new Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name patch has gone live today, introducing AMD FSR 3 support to the game and more.

Sony has revealed the next set of games coming to their premium subscription services, PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium.

Insomniac Games has delayed new game plus update, noting that it will now be available sometime next year instead of at the end of the month.

Sony has announced the latest lineup of games coming to their PS Plus Extra and Premium tiers in December. The big news this month is that GTA V is returning to the service, along with Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, and a number of top-notch indies like Tinykin, Salt & Sacrifice, and Prodeus. On the classics front, the entire original Mega Man lineup, from Mega Man 1 to 11 is now available.

Yesterday, Insomniac Games and Bethesda Game Studios announced around the same time that the awaited Marvel's Spider-Man 2 and Fallout 4 updates have been delayed to 2024.

Spider-Man 2's big post-launch update has been delayed to early 2024. In a tweet, developer Insomniac Games confirmed that the team needed more time to ensure a high-quality product, but will include a range of additional features. Originally, the patch was supposed to only include a New Game+ mode, allowing players to dive back into the game's story in an overpowered state, carrying over all unlocked abilities and gear upgrades. But having collected feedback from players, a mission replay option will be added so that you can relive some of the most cinematic boss fights in gaming this year — alongside side missions to hunt down achievements.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is one of the biggest successes of the year, but it launched missing a few features present in Insomniac's two prior Spidey games. The biggest omission was New Game Plus, but Insomniac assured fans it would come in an update to the game before the end of the year. Unfortunately, the developer won't be able to hit that deadline, as it posted this update on social media yesterday.

Let's not beat a dead horse. Miles Morales' new Evolved suit isn't popular. But the assumption was that, since it's an Adidas brand deal, Adidas designed it. That's not exactly the case, as it turns out.

The new update will come in early 2024.

Insomniac Games has delayed Spider-Man 2’s New Game Plus mode until early next year.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 fans itching to return to New York for some New Game Plus action will need to wait just a little while longer; developer Insomniac Games has announced it's delaying the previously promised mode — alongside a number of other features — into «early» 2024 for some additional testing ahead of release.

Insomniac is not quite yet done with adding new content to Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. Although the promised accessibility update and New Game Plus mode haven’t launched yet, more features are coming.

Insomniac Games has confirmed that Marvel's Spider-Man 2's New Game Plus mode will arrive early next year.

The long-awaited New Game Plus update for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has been delayed to "early 2024," but the patch is now set to include a host of other big additions.

Publisher Sony Interactive Entertainment and developer Insomniac Games have delayed the “New Game+” update for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 from its previously planned 2023 release window to early 2024.

Insomniac Games has announced that they’ve had to delay the Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus update until 2024, to ensure everything’s up to the company’s usual high standards.

Sony has revealed the next set of games coming to their premium subscription services, PS Plus Extra and PS Plus Premium.

Sony has announced the next wave of titles coming to PlayStation Plus Extra and Premium subscribers starting December 19th. PS4 and PS5 players can play Grand Theft Auto 5, Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin, Moto GP23, Metal: Hellsinger (with PS4 owners able to download the PS5 version), Salt and Sacrifice and Moonscars.

Insomniac Games has announced that it is targeting an early 2024 release window for the much-awaited New Game Plus update for Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. The studio, announcing the release window over social media platform X, stated that it needs more more time to test the feature.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac has reportedly been targeted by a hacking group that is threatening to leak details about Marvel's Wolverine.

Antstream Arcade, the world's largest officially licensed retro gaming platform, is adding 27 Bandai Namco classics to its lineup of over 1,300 games, including Pac-Man, Galaga, Splatterhouse, Dig Dug, and Pac-Mania.

Marvel fans have spotted a continuity error in Avengers: Infinity War – and it involves Tony Stark's mustache. 

is the newest game coming from developer Hello Games, and there's good reason to keep an eye on this title. It might be easy to assume that the upcoming open-world experience is going to over-promise and under-deliver, as the original launch of fell short of some intense expectations that had been built up over the course of its development and promotion. If anything, however, it's easier to make the case that something closer to the opposite scenario is likely to happen this time around.

Hello Games, the studio behind No Man’s Sky, is directing their gaze away from the infinite promise of space in the upcoming Light No Fire, a game that promises to reproduce a single planet that dwarfs the one that we live on. That includes all the climbable mountains, some of which are “miles high, taller than Everest,” according to the project lead.

A Florida man who has tattooed his face heavily to resemble Batman character The Joker has claimed that GTA makers Rockstar owe him money for drawing on his likeness in the first GTA 6 trailer.

If you skipped out on No Man's Sky this year then now's your chance to jump back in and see all the goodness they rolled out, as developers Hello Games are taking the holiday season to replay all the expedition events and offer up their rewards. There's even a return of a 2021 expedition, complete with limited-edition golden starship to claim.

Very few video game promotional products can actually make graphics better, but the official eyeglasses from Warby Parker can do just that. A tie-in between prescription glasses and a video game release is a different breed of cross-promotion from the norm, as fans usually see products aimed at children, like fast food restaurant toys or limited run cereals. This makes the Warby Parker collaboration stand out, since prescription eyeglasses are extremely practical, and can certainly do more to improve video game graphics than a new television.

Cyberpunk 2077 studio CD Projekt Red very cheekily congratulated Hello Games on the reveal of its ambitious new fantasy game Light no Fire at The Game Awards 2023, seemingly joking about the two studios' respective controversies and eventual redemption arcs.

As is now something of an end-of-year tradition, Hello Games has announced it's re-running all this year's No Man's Sky limited-time Expeditions (plus a bonus one from 2021) throughout the festive period for those that missed them — and their associated rewards — first time around.

A new video game is on the horizon, another addition to a selection of titles focused on Marvel heroes like the games and the upcoming from Insomniac Games. and have been confirmed to take place in the same universe, establishing the closest current video game equivalent to the shared worlds represented by Marvel Cinematic Universe films or any given comic continuity. It might be easy to assume that will fall into the same category, but the situation isn't necessarily that simple.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was in the running for a plethora of awards at The Game Awards 2023 but left the event empty-handed.

Iron Man kicked off the MCU more than a decade ago, brought the Infinity Saga to an end by finally slaying Thanos, and there are even rumors Robert Downey Jr. will somehow reprise the role in the future. Suffice to say, the character, who many labeled the wrong choice to kick off the MCU, is one of the most popular superheroes on the planet. One that has enough Funko Pops that you could exclusively collect Iron Man figures, and later today - Friday, December 8, 2023 - you'll be able to add one more to that collection.

The developers of No Man's Skyhave been cooking up a new project, and it was finally revealed last night at The Game Awards.

Following the backlash No Man's Sky creator Sean Murray received when the highly ambitious spacefaring adventure didn't meet expectations at launch, you might think he'd be more cautious when drumming up hype for Hello Games' next project, but that's far from the case.

How do you follow-up a game with an entire galaxy of procedurally-generated planets? With one procedurally-generated planet, it turns out—but it's a really big one.

Seven years after the launch of No Man's Sky, Hello Games is finally looking towards a new horizon. The developer appeared at The Game Awards 2023 to showcase Light No Fire – a brand-new co-op adventure that looks like a daring cross between Valheim and Death Stranding, routed through an expansive fantasy world akin to Pandora or Middle-earth. 

How do you follow-up a game that attempts to simulate an entire universe for your exploratory enjoyment? Hello Games has just answered that very question with the reveal of its next title, Light No Fire, a co-operative adventure set on a procedurally generated fantasy planet.

Ten years ago, at Geoff Keighley's awards show (then known as the VGX Awards), the development team at Hello Games revealed No Man's Sky. The ambitious space-exploration title promised a universe of possibilities and has since become the poster child for bouncing back from a challenging launch period.

Hello Games have announced Light No Fire, the Guildford, UK-based developer's most ambitious new game since 2016's space sim No Man's Sky. In development for roughly five years so far, it's an exploration-driven fantasy experience with building mechanics, a range of curious mythological creatures, and a procedurally generated open world that is apparently Earth-like in both geography and scale. Hello have just screened a trailer at this year's Game Awards. Earlier this week, they invited me down to their Guildford offices for a quick, informal chat about the game, which I am going to characterise as Fable meets Microsoft Flight Simulator.

Gwyneth Paltrow has gone into detail about how was made in a different way than the rest of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

IGN Roundtable is a brand new initiative we're starting that brings together the best and brightest in the worlds gaming, film, TV, and pop culture to talk about what’s really on their minds. From the state of the industry to inspirations, you never know what’s going to happen at these one-of-a-kind chats between legends.

One player, desperate to freely roam Marvel's Spider-Man 2's depiction of New York City as Venom once more, has found a relatively unconventional way of doing so. However, we wouldn't go so far as recommending it, requiring intentionally crashing your game during a specific story segment and nerves of steel. Vague Marvel's Spider-Man 2 SPOILERS to follow!

Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio has announced that Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name will receive an English dub this month.

An intrepid Mortal Kombat 1 fan has revealed what looks like a discarded Brutality that sees DLC character Omni-Man kill his opponent with his moustache.

We all know about numerous examples of an Apple Watch saving people's lives. Well, it seems, an Apple AirTag can save people's businesses from thieves! Apple AirTag has been making headlines for various reasons some good and some bad ever since it was launched. In the latest incident, a man caught a serial plant thief by putting the Apple AirTag to cunning use. The thief had been stealing expensive trees, pots, vases and more in a California locality for a long time and no one was able to stop his purloining spree. The businessman concerned was running an establishment called Roger's Gardens and he finally managed to track down the plant thief who had stolen thousands of dollars worth of goods over the course of many weeks. Even though the Police had been trying to track down the thief, the case could not be solved until the owner actually planted the Apple AirTag in different items across his shop and caught the thief virtually red-handed. Know how the thief was finally nabbed.

Developer Ryu Ga Gotoko Studio has announced a free update for Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name, which will bring with it a fully voice acted English dub to the game. The update is slated to hit the game on all platforms in December.

Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige has revealed the truth about reports that Robert ‘s Iron Man would be resurrected in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Doom scrolling social media looks to have replaced the age-old pasttime of watching TV in GTA 6, which has prompted feelings of alternating despair and increasing irrelevance in me this morning. I barely understand how TikTok works in real-life, let alone a video game pastiche of it, and oh god, how did I get so old and craggy? I'm just here for the nice-looking flamingos, Rockstar, not a 24/7 twerk stream I can access from the palm of my hand. Of course, TV watching may yet have been preserved beyond what we've seen so far in the first trailer for GTA 6, but even if it's been consigned to the bin of modern history, there might yet be one light in the TikTok-esque darkness to make GTA 6's in-game social media network worthwhile.

is pretty far away from starting production but the film is highly anticipated amongst fans who wish to see what is next for Tom Holland’s web-slinger. However, fans are curious to know if, the director of Holland’s first three Spidey flicks will return to the directing chair once more or if someone else like will helm the new installment.

Edgar Wright's reboot of The Running Man is still a go – and the filmmaker says it'll be a faithful adaptation of Stephen King's original novel.

India's space ambitions are reaching new heights. From working on multiple space missions to International collaborations, the country is uplifting its global status in the field of space exploration. Recently, Victor Joseph, the associate scientific secretary of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) while delivering his speech at the Bengaluru Tech Summit (BTS-2023), explained what the Indian space agency is doing at the moment regarding placing an Indian man on the Moon as well as the status of the Gaganyaan mission.

hasn’t ruled out stepping back into the suit of , but it would have to be for something that’s worth it.

Bruce Campbell has confirmed that his characters from Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness are the same person, even if he's not actually sure who said guy is...

As of November 29's Amazing Spider-Man: Gang War First Strike #1, the Marvel Universe has erupted in a massive turf war among the many criminal factions of New York City, and all comes down to a single brutal moment that kicks it all off.

Good news, folks, Geralt is bound for your coffee table. So says Restoration Games, publishers of card and miniatures game Unmatched, who announced today that it's partnering with CD Projekt Red to bring a bunch of Witcher-themed stuff into the game over the course of two new sets. 

Spider-Man 2 voice actor Tony Todd has fuelled speculation that a Venom spin-off game or DLC featuring the character could be in the works by claiming that only 10 per cent of his voice lines were used in the final release.

The Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse script has been released, and there's one major difference from the version of the movie that ended up on screen. The script features a lot more cursing than the film – more specifically, four instances of the word 'fuck'. 

Have you heard of the Jam Man of Silent Hill: Ascension? You're about to. In the third episode of what started out as a potentially interesting experiment and has quickly snowballed into a complete disaster, Karl Johansen (a Norwegian farmer) runs into the Jam Man. 

Tony Todd has revealed that a huge amount of the work he did for was cut from the final game. The horror icon appeared at Fan Expo San Francisco over the past weekend to talk about his role as Venom in the acclaimed superhero sequel and offered an insight into another storyline involving the symbiote and Miles Morales.

The Like a Dragon series loves its comforts. Set in between Yakuza 6 and the impending 2024 game Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name doesn’t come out of the gates and uppercut the player with an all-out original experience. Instead, it tides everyone over until the next release with familiarity. Where it does shine, though, is in the same department as always: The story.

The PS5 Slim released earlier this month, and you buy the console bundled with a $70 game for only $499.

This is one of the best PS5 Black Friday deals available now.

It’s no secret that the stars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe work hard to get superhero bodies to show off on the big screen. When it came to Ant-Man ‘s diet, though, he describes it as awful.

Many processes go into making video games, and a byproduct of that is that not everything planned gets used in the final product. Many video game developers can tell you about cut levels, shelved ideas, and how they had to “rework things” to get a final product that they were really proud of. For Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, they were so dedicated to getting the sequel to their hit PS4 title ready that they didn’t talk about it for almost two years after its announcement. Thankfully, the game was a huge hit and is the best-selling game on PS5 in terms of its launch numbers.