Insomniac Games announced today that they're not only working on Spider-Man 2 for PlayStation 5, they're also working on Wolverine! Much like the now hit-release Spider-Man game series from Insomniac, the (also Marvel Comics-sourced) Wolverine will appear in his own stand-alone game. And Spider-Man 2 will have Venom - VOICED BY THE ORIGINAL CANDYMAN!
It’s been a while since we last heard from our buddies Ratchet and Clank. Not only has it been five years since the last Ratchet & Clank game, titled simply Ratchet & Clank, but that one was only a reimagining of the original game from 2002. To find the last proper Ratchet & Clank release, you have to go back all the way back to 2013 and the release of Ratchet & Clank: Into the Nexus. Back then, I remember hearing some question of whether or not the Ratchet & Clank series had worn out its welcome after a packed 13 years of releases. After some time off, the pair are back to usher in the PS5 era along with some new friends in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.
Gamers have the rather undeserved stereotype of being button or key-mashing young people and that games are designed around that. That may have been true at some point in time but the gaming industry has also learned to adapt to a more varied range of gamers with more varied physical abilities. Accessibility modes are becoming a must-have especially in large titles from large studios and Insomniac Games' Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart is showing other games how to do that well.
Just a couple of days ago, Insomniac Games announced that Ratchet & Clank (2016) would be getting a next-gen PS5 upgrade. When Insomniac made that announcement, it said it was targeting the upgrade's release for April, but it turns out the company was pretty far off the mark with that release target. That's because the update is actually live now, which means that it's landing while Ratchet & Clank is still free through Sony's Play at Home promo.
Starting this week, PlayStation Play At Home begins on March 1, 2021, and with it, free game drops aplenty. As noted by Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan in late February, the Play At Home initiative will carry the good times forward into the future thanks in part to the bad times delivered by the COVID-19 pandemic. Here in March 2021, this means we're getting Ratchet & Clank, the game released as a re-imagining of the original Ratchet & Clank.
Insomniac sneakily released a new update for Spider-Man: Miles Morales overnight, and though the update isn't very big in terms of overall size, it does add a big feature. The update adds a new graphics option to the game that appears to strike a balance between frame rate and graphics fidelity. If you're looking to play the game at 60 frames per second but don't want to sacrifice ray tracing to achieve that frame rate, then this new graphics option is definitely for you.
As most PlayStation 5 users are likely already aware, the Ultimate Edition of Spider-Man: Miles Morales comes with a new version of Marvel's Spider-Man remastered for PlayStation 5. Not only does this new version of the game feature some souped-up graphics, but it also ships with a few new suits and even a new character model for Peter Parker.
Spider-Man: Miles Morales has the distinction of being one of the first games revealed for the PlayStation 5 as well as one of the console's launch titles. Insomniac has slowly been releasing new details about the game since it was first revealed, and today, the company announced that Spider-Man: Miles Morales will offer a "Performance Mode" for those who want a balance of frame rate and resolution.
In the opening minutes of its PlayStation 5 event yesterday, Sony and Insomniac Games announced Spider-Man: Miles Morales. It wasn't immediately clear what Spider-Man: Miles Morales was, and the lone teaser trailer Sony and Insomniac showed off didn't do anything to clear things up. Is it a sequel to Spider-Man? A standalone expansion? A remaster of Spider-Man for PS5 that included new content centered on Miles Morales? It was impossible to say from that teaser trailer alone.
One of the headliners for Sony's PlayStation 5 event yesterday was, unquestionably, Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The only thing we saw concerning the game was a teaser trailer, with no further information from the folks at Insomniac, leaving us to wonder if this was a proper sequel or if it was more of an expansion to Insomniac's existing Spider-Man game on PS4. Apparently, it's the latter.
Marvel's Spider-Man is definitely one of the more popular PlayStation 4 exclusives, and it looks like we're going to get a follow-up featuring Miles Morales for the PlayStation 5. While Sony's PlayStation 5 livestream event is still ongoing, the company kicked it off in a big way, debuting a teaser trailer that showed Miles Morales taking the fight to some evildoers in his familiar black and red Spidey suit.
Insomniac Games is a company that has long been associated with Sony, releasing a number of PlayStation-exclusive titles like Ratchet and Clank, Spyro the Dragon, Resistance, and Marvel's Spider-Man throughout the years. In fact, Insomniac has worked with Sony so often that you'd be forgiven if you thought that it was one of Sony's studios. Up until today, that wasn't the case, but now Sony has announced that it plans to make things official and purchase Insomniac.