All we knew up until now was t♈hat the Easter egg was found in Zurkie's Gastropub, a location you frequent during Rift Apart's campaign, and considering that area is already filled with Easter eggs in the form of nods to past games, it made things a bit harder. During👍 the Insomniac Live show on Twitch (with the clip since posted to Insomniac's Twitter account), the game's senior designer, Grant Parker walked through the Easter egg.

So before you go into Zurkie's, there are two signs telling you that there are no weapons allowed and somehow players were meant to figure out that you need to shoot the left one five times𝔍, the right one four times, and then shoot the left one 13 more times, which results in nothing. There's no indication that anything has happened. But if you head into the pub and walk up the mechanical bull, you'll be shown a prompt saying "Hold L2 to Ride Mechanical Bull."

Holding L2 will then put you into a minigame where you have to try your best to stay on the bull. Except it's clearly unfinished, as Rivet is seen standing beside the bull while another version of herself is t-posing on the bull, whౠich has no animations at all and simply clips through the floor as it moves around. However Parker says it was "just something fun that I thought I'd leave in the game" knowing that no one would find it… until now, obviously.

Split Fiction players defeat secret challenge so tough that some of the devs themselves can "barely" complete it, and get rewarded with the promise of an early peek at the director's next game.

As highlighted by the Twitter users below, there's a very real consequence if you play 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus and take on Sandman while wearing a specific suit. If you've already played Insomniac's ꩵmost recent title, you're probably all too familiar with how much sand gets sent flying a🌊round when going up against the Marvel villain. What many may not have discovered yet, though, is that the Symbiote suit is quite the sand magnet. 

I like to im🅷agine thaﷺt the Symbiote suit has the same texture as those squishy alien egg toys, which means the sand that's flicked off Sandman during the boss battle sticks to it very easily. The end result resembles something very different from sand or Symbiote and has got Marvel's Spider-Man 2 fans cheering on a new hero: Poop-Man. 

"Don't play #SpiderMan2 new game plus first mission in the Symbiote suit because t༺he sand goes onto the suit and makes peter turn into sh*t man," one Twitter user has warned fellow players. The picture included in the tweet pretty much speaks for itself. "This is why [Insomniac] held off NG+ for so long, they didn't want us to find out about poop man," another fan responded to the tweet. 

Things get even funnier in the tweet&♔apos;s reply: "If they patch out Peter Pooper I'm not playing the DLC," the same Twitter uღser threatens. Others have had similar reactions, sharing things like: "This is the main reason you play ng+" and "Spooderman." Although not the most flattering comparison, we're sure Insomniac doesn't mind if it means more people are trying out New Game Plus, even if it is just to meet Poop-Man. 

In other (less poop-related) Spider-Man news: Despite the sequel's ending, Peter Parker's voice actor doesn't think we've seen the last of his character.

Find out what else Peter Parker and Miles Morales can wear with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 suits guide. 

Let’s start with Before The Green Moon (), a low-stakes, low-poly farming sim that’s “set in a small community at the base of a space elevator” that goes to the titular moon. Think Stardew Valley bu🍬t with PSX aesthetics and an alien world. Before The Green Moon comes courtesy of Turnfollow, the developers behind Wide Ocean Big Jacket, so you can also expect some incredibly human moments thrown in, too. 

Next up is Cursorblade (), a game that first caught my attention with a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:great Next Fest demo. Essentially, the game takes Vampire Survivor’s roguelike formula but casts you as 💧the titular pointy cursor. Enemies stay stationary and it’s then on you to attack when appropriate, threading between projectiles, bꩵlobs, and flames to strike.

Before Insomniac Games swung into action with Spider-Man, the studio cut its teeth on Sunset Overdrive (), the vibrant shooter that turns an urban open world into a platforming parad♒ise. Sticking with blockbusters, survival horror sequel The Evil Within 2 () is at its﷽ lowest price ever and an absolute steal.

Early access not a problem? Driftwood (, the longboarding game with a starring sloth, just added snowboarding for the festive season, so, what better time to slide in? Then we have Mortal Sin, a brutal but brilliant roguelike t💧hat has you descend into unholy 🍷dungeons with some thrilling melee combat. (Yes, I’m breaking my own rules since it’s currently on sale for . It’s just that good!)

Let’s switch gears to something dramatically more chill: I Commissioned Some Cats (), which is an adorable hidden object puzzler featuring some stunꦆning art. Another hidden object gem comes from Sizeable (), a puzzler that has you shrinking and expanding objects in a diorama. Cloud Gardens () is also endlessly relaxing for its gorgeous voxels and post-apocalyptic decorating.

My final recommendation is the time-looping old-school horror Homebody (), which is somehow brutally scary and insightful about early-adulthood anxieties all at once. Not very festive, but hey, maybe that’s🐎 what you’re in the mood for. 

Steam Winter Sale also has discounts on the best Soulslikes.

“Thank you for the outpouring of compassion and unwavering support,” t💖he studio writes in a statement, “We're both saddened and angered about the recent criminal cyberattack on our studio and the emotional toll it's taken on our dev team. W♓e have focused inwardly for the last several days to support each other.”

Insomniac then shares that the studio is “aware that the stolen♏ data includes p𒐪ersonal information belonging to our employees, former employees, and independent contractors,” alongside “development details” on its next superhero romp. The company didn’t detail any potential support being offered to affected employees, though it’s still determining “what data was impacted” at the moment.

“This experience has been extremely distressing for us,” the statement continues. “We want everyone to enjoy the games we develop as intended and as our players deserve. However, like Logan… Insomniac is resilient.꧙ Marvel’s Wolverine continues as planned, The game is in early production and will no doubt greatly evolve throughout development, as do all our plans.” But we’ll need to wait until “the time is right” to see an official clip from the game. 

Elsewhere, the studio’s community and marketing director James Stevenson that the information gathering online is “stolen data - not leaked info” and “澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:pirated builds - not leaked demos.” For the uninitiated, the hacking group reportedly demande♊d $2 million from Sony beforꦯe releasing the content and claimed that it held back 2% of the information from public view.

Head to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games guide to see what else is in the pipeline. 

On December 21, the reported that Arion Kurtaj, a key member of the international hacking group Lapsus$, had been sentenced to indefinite life in a hospital prison due to his alleged involv꧂ement in the GTA 6 leak, and "intent to r🤡eturn to cybercrime as soon as possible." 

During the proceedings, Rockstar told the court that the hack had cost the company $5 million to recover, plus "thousands of hours' worth of staff time." The leak, which took place in September 2022, released 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:over 90 screenshots and videos of an early bui🅺ld of GTA 6 - which at this point had barely been announced as in development. 

In July 2023, several months after his 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:initial arrest, Kurtaj was deemed psychiatrically unfit for trial. Then, just a month later, it was discovered that Kurtaj had 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hacked Rockstar from a hotel room using an Amazon Firestick, TV, and mobile phone -🌠 resulting in him being re-arrested.

Although the leak was 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"extremely" disappointing for Rockstar, it seems the developer more than made it up to fans when it released the official 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA 6 trailer earlier this month. Unfortunately, this wasn't without its issues, as the trail♓er leaked a day earlier than its official reveal. 

Rockstar isn't the only studio to have recently suffered this kind of cyber attack. Last week, it was reported that Insomniac Games (developer of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2) had been 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hacked by a different group who had obtained information on the studio's upcoming game, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Wolverine, as well as employee data. Following the attack, there have been plenty of Marvel's Wolveriওne leaks floating a📖round online.

The GTA 6 trailer confirmed what we already knew: that GTA 6 leak was never anything to worry about, and leaks are very often pointless.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was the obvious challenger here from a commercial and critical perspective, and while it's difficult to compare the two directly (we'll dig into that further down the page), Insomniac Games' second crack at the red-suited superhero quickly became the fastest-selling PlayStation Studios game over a 24-hour period, selling more than 2.5 million cop𝓰ies in a single day. 

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 16 was received well at launch in June, wowing players with its combat, voice acting, and spectacle (I'll leave fans of the series to debate the strength of its story, mind you); while the much-anticipated 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth was pushed back several months into next year. The PS5 had this year's runaway hit 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 all to itself in the console space for several weeks; whereas timed-PS5-exclusive Forspoken didn't quite live up to expectations. PSVR 2 excelled, not least by wﷺay of Horizon Call of the Mountain; yet the company's marquee PlayStation Showcase and State of Play events too often flattered to deceive. And so went the last 12 months for PlayStation – seemingly matching many of its forward strides with one or two in the opposite direction. 

With the Microsoft-Activision deal bubbling under the surface, a fair amount of Sony's front-facing visibility in 2023 was spent speaking out about why the proposed multi-million dollar acquisition wasn't good for the video games industry as a whole. And while I don't disagree with the sentiment from an anti-monopoly point of view (I will, however, put the glaring inconsistencies in Sony's argument to one side for the sake of debate), I personally felt both sides allowed the tabloid charade of it all to beco𝐆me an increasingly bigger distraction over the course. 

All of which is to say: 2023 always 𓂃had scope to be a strange one for Sony. And𝐆, for me, it totally was.

The state of play

Ahead of May's PlayStation-focused event, I ran a headline that read: Sony simply turning up at the PlayStation Showcase will keep Xbox on the ropes. With the virtue of hindsight, I'll be the first to admit that I missed the mark at top-level – Sony ultimately delivered a lukewarm presentation – but I nevertheless stand by the points made within. Xbox console-exclusive Redfall, aka Microsoft's biggest blunder of the year, was barely behind us when this particular PlayStation Showcase rolled around, and we were less than a month on from a Microsoft earnings report that stated Xbox hardware revenue had plummeted 30% in the previous year. At the same time, Sony had announced that the PS5 was selling faster than PS4 in the US despite years of console shortages, and that the PS5 had passed 500 million home consoles sold as a result. 

Roll all of this into the fact that at the time – way back in the heady days of late May earlier this year – the Microsoft-Activision bid was enjoying one of its signature lulls, whereby any deal whatsoever seemed all but unlikely. Fast forward several months, and not only has the Microsoft-Activision deal gone through, but Microsoft has also enjoyed the successful launch of Xbox-exclusive, Starfield. As mentioned above, making side-by-side comparisons between Bethesda's space-faring RPG and Marvel's Spid𒐪er-Man 2 is impossible, given the fact many Xbox players are playing the former via Game Pass. What we can say about the superhero PS5 exclusive, however, is that it sold more than five million copies in 11 days and was the highest-selling video game of October 2023. That's pretty good going. 

Alongside all of this, the fact that Baldur's Gate 3 launched on PS5 shortly after its arrival on PC made Larian Studios' hit role-player an unlikely boon for Sony – the PS5 becoming the only console alternative for trips to the Sword Coast between September 6 and December 7, when that journey was finally possible on Xbox Series hardware following a handful of delays. I don't think the importance of this inadvertent period of exclusivity can be underestimated, especially given the fact that games of this nature (Larian games in particular) tend to fare better on PC – not to mention the fact BG3 had accrued a solid and pre-existing following via three years in Steam's Early Access initiative. With the promise of Baldur's Gate 3 DLC on the horizon, PlayStation players will inevitably extend their love affair with GamesRadar+'s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Game of the Year for 2023 when the time comes.

On the hardware front, the PlayStation Portal landed in November with its 8" display and built-in DualSense controller designed to sort of replicate the PSP and PSVita handhelds of bygone eras. The jury&ap💮os;s still out on how well it manages that – but another peripheral that was well-received from Sony's 2023 purview was the PlayStation Access controller. De🍎signed in collaboration with the accessibility community, the Access aims to help players with disabilities play more comfortably, with a broad range of customization options.  

Despite the aforementioned mediocre PlayStation Showcase in May, the Sony State of Play event in September did a far better job of stirring hype for what lies ahead – even if much of that extends into next year. This showing's coup de gras was destined to be a closer look at Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth, part two of the planned trilogy, and it was🎀ted no time in getting going. With flashes of Junon Harbour, the parade on the central thoroughfare of the same seaside town, the cable car ride to the Gold Saucer, Cait Sith, Vincent, Zack, Red 13's hometown of Cosmo Canyon, Bugenhagen, mention of Emerald and Ruby Weapon, and that big bastard swamp serpent that Sephiroth makes light work of – it🎶 all looked stunning. Now with its February 29 launch date in sight, 2024 can't come soon enough. 

Elsewhere on PlayStation's coming soon radar sits The Last of Us 2 Remastered (January 19) and Pacific Drive (February 22); with a number of TBC labels hanging over everything from Phantom Blade 0, Sword of the Sea, Hideo Kojima's new project OD, Concord, Marathon, the Silent Hill 2 remake, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Wolverine. To the🐓 latter end, the catastrophic Insomniac leaks that unfolded this week at the hands of hackers dealt a devastating blow to all of those on the receiving end. 

The depth, scale, and scope of the leaked material that's now in the public domain is unlike anything I've ever seen before in video games, and is certainly a sore one for Insomniac who'd otherwise be riding high into the New Year buoyed by its latest successful release. This is indeed a notable set-back for a first-party PlayStation studio, but if Rockstar Games' recent trajectory in the face of high-profile leaks is anything to go by – from its own in-development content hack last year through to this month's stellar GTA 6 trailer – then I'm confident Insomniac has what it takes to bounce back once it's dusted itself down and is rari♉ng to go again.𓆉 

And with the sentiment of looking꧑ forward in mind, despit꧅e a fairly stop-start year from PlayStation against what we're otherwise used to, its next steps into 2024 and beyond will be, as ever, well worth watching. 

Here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS5 games to play right now

Earlier this week, over 1.6 terabytes worth of hacked data from Insomnꦑiac Games was released online by a group of hackers. The data included the personal information of studio employees, as well as information about Marvel's Wolverine, and other upcoming Insomniac games that h💮adn't been announced.

Now, things look like they're about to get much worse for 🌊Wolverine fans. A playable build of the game is reportedly circulating online, seemingly allowing players to experience very select vertical slices of the forthcoming ౠgame, as well as revealing new story details of Insomniac's new game.

It's worth mentioning the leaked playable build of ꦰthe game is a PC version of Marvel's Wolverine. However, this isn't indicative of🌊 a PC launch for the game - PC builds of a game are very common in the development process, even for a game that isn't being made specifically for a PC launch.

All this is to s𒆙ay that the leaks surrounding the game look set to get worse, especially for those wanting to stay spoiler-free until Marvel's Wolverine actually releases. Be especially vigilant if you&apos♏;re on internet forum websites like ResetEra and Reddit, as well as YouTube.

At the time the hackers first released the information earlier this week, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the gaꦓmes industry reacted with general d♒isgust. Devel🀅opers around the world sent Insomniac Games messages of support, including Alan Wake 2 studio Remedy Games, whicᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚh called the leaked personal information of developers "truly disgraceful and shameful."

Insomniac h🍨asn't publicly responded toꦍ the hacked information at the time of writing. Sony also hasn't responded since the new information was put online but said at the time of the hack earlier this month that it was actively looking into the situation.

You can head over to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games guide for a look ahead at all the games aside from Insomniac's slate that are coming to the new-gen console.

We had the chance to sit down💮 with Lowenthal recently and we asked him what his first pick for a villain would be if a Marvel's Spider-Man 3 were to happen. Hesitant to provide an answer that might inadvertently come true, he picked Dr. Johnathon Ohnn, AKA Spot, because his powers call to mind the groundbreaking gameplay from Valve's Portal series.

"I've always loved Spot," Lowenthal said. "But I know Spot j🏅ust got the, uh, spotlight in the most recent movie. But, I mean, wouldn't it be cool? I mean, we've all played Portal and Portal 2. Wouldn't it be cool to have those powers in Spider-Man? To have a fight like that ... it would be so good!"

Lowenthal is absolutely correct that an Insomniac-developed Spider-Man game with Portal powers has the potential to be pretty amazing. Imagine swinging around New York and having to grapple with an ene🍨my that has the ability to form portals to and from different parts of the city, or better yet, having those powers at your own disposal. The possibilities 🐠seem endless.

Alas, as Lowenthal notes, the ♚odds of Insomniac going with Spot for its next big villain are pretty low, and that's assuming the studio even has intentions to continue the series with another entry.

For now, here are the best Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Easter eggs and secrets.

*Spoilers ahead for Marvel's Spider-Man 2*

For a couple of weeks now, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 players have been enjoying a fun little bug that let them roam around New York City as the game's main villain, Venom. For context, there's a mission in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that briefly lets you control the Symbiote, but only from within the very limited confines ofꦑ the mission area. However, some wily web-slingers figured out that you could use an invisible wall to glitch their way out of the mission zone and explore the map freely as the antagonist. 

Those days appear to be behind us now, as pl♎ayers familiar with the bug are saying they're no longer able to access it. The s🦋cuttlebutt is that the bug was causing saves to become corrupted, so it's actually probably for the best that it's been patched out.

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The patch notes for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 version 1.001.005 are available now on with no mention of a fix for the Venom free-roam bug, but it's not unusual for patch notes to not always be completely exhaustive. I've reached out to🍸 Sony for confirmation and I'll update this article if I hear back.

While you probably won't be able to terrify the citizens of New York as Venom at your leisure, you might've noticed the Symbiote can literally play with fire and not get hurt. Game director Bryan Intihar recently explained that that's because having too many Venom weaknesses ✅would be difficult to "communi🔥cate" to players.

Free-roam bug or not, GR's Joe Donnelly reckons Marvel's Spider-Man 2's Venom is the best take on the symbiote since his favorite Spidey game from 28 years ago.

*Light spoilers ahead for Marvel's Spider-Man 2*

For reference♏, in the comics that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is drawn from, Venom has a ♈couple of key weaknesses: high frequency sounds and fire. However, you might've noticed in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, the villain is completely invulnerable to fire. As explained in an , this isn't a continuity error, but rather an intentional design choice made in service of intuitive gameplay.

"Fire doesn't hurt the Symbiote and Venom in this game, did you guys notice that?" Marvel's Spider-Man 2 director Bryan In🐈tihar said. "So originally, there was like five different weaknesses of the Symbiote, and 💞we were like, 'Oh my god, how are we going to communicate all these different things?'"

Just in case you're thinking Insomn🐭iac Games might've actually just goofed and this is an attempt to justify a mistake, there are both visual and audio cues throughout Marvel's Spider-Man 2 that put that theory to bed.

"We were like, 'you know what, for our universe, we're just going to keep it♛ to high frequency sound," Intihar added. "Someone was like, 'why is Harry not getting hurt by the fire?' and i💞t's like, if you noticed, in the rescue Tombstone mission, Pete purposefully says, 'Is the fire bothering you?' and he goes, 'no, I don't feel anything', just so I can make sure that we cover our bases."

Despite this little discrepancy between the comics and the new game, critics and players are in near uniform agreement that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is an absolute triumph of an open-world superhero game. Insomniac's take on Venom in particular has been praised, with GamesRadar's Joe Donnelly hailing it as the best version of the Symbiote since the 1995 16-🔴bit Spider-Man.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has such a vibrant open-world that Joe wants Insomniac to build a GTA 6-rivaling crime sim.

To catch you up, the first Marvel's Spider-Man game had a plaque outside𓄧 Nelson and Murdock's legal office - Daredevil's daytime workplace - located in Hell's Kitchen. In the sequel's rendition of New York, that plaque was mysteriously empty and the business' door was plastered with an eviction notice, hinting that the business had moved to a different location or gone under.

When asked about the change, director Bryan Intihar cheekily 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:responded with "stay tuned." That reply obviously stoked even more fan theories around the vigilante lawyer, but in an even more mysterious turn, the plaque has been updated to once again read: "Nelson and Murdock - Attorneys At Law." The ev🦩iction notice was also removed thanks to the mostly bu🔯g-squashing patch deployed yesterday, November 1. 

The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Easter Egg's disappearance and silent return probably means that the whole situation was probably just an asset-related bug that's now been squished. Or was it? Some f🥂ans still have hopes about the hero's gaming future, though, especially after discovering 💝an oddly detailed interior that could be related to The Hand - the supervillain organization that debuted in a Daredevil comic.

Insomniac’s joint superhero universe is slowly growing, as the studio recently confirmed that its upcoming Wolverine game shares i꧒ts universe with Marvel’s S꧑pider-Man. The team has also teased an 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:“epic” threequel and a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:potential Venom spin-off, so Dar𒆙edevil could pop up in any one of those projects. As long as they’re set in New York, I guess.

An unreleased Daredevil: Man Without Fear game from 2004 recently resurfaced with new footage. The upcoming Daredevil show wasn’t so lucky, as Marvel cut ties with all writers and directors.

As highlighted by @LachesisHD on Twitter (originally discovered by Reddit user ), there&𓆏apos;s a way to change the way Marvel's Spider-Man 2 looks, going as far as turning it into Spider-Man Noir's home. 

As you can see from the video below, every inch of New York City can be given a moody makeover - everything from the sky, buildings, and even Peter Parker himself if he's wearing the 'Into the Spider-Verse Noir Suit' - which you can find out how to obtain with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man 2 suits guide.

If you wanted to recreate this look yourself, SpaceYetiGamer was kind enough to reveal exactly what settings they applied to make it in the video. First of all, you'll n𒀰eed to head to 'Visual Settings' in the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 settings menu and switch on the 'Film Style Animation' effect. This adds the Into The Spider-Verse animation style to the adventure. After this, in the sa🦩me menu, find the 'High Contrast Background' option and switch it on. And there you have it, you are now Spider-Man Noir. 

It's been almost three weeks since Insomniac released its Spider-Man sequel, and this isn't the only thing players have discovered in that time. One fan found that Peter Parker holds the Rubik's Cube world record - which is almost as impressive as saving New York City from supervillains every week. Another stumbled across a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:heartfelt Insomniac developer tribute in the form of a mural in Central Park, while a different player shared a way to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:take Venom on a tour of New York City.

Take a look at our best Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Easter eggs for even more surprises. 

In an interview with , the director of Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Bryan Intihar, talked about the sequel's new villains and reassured fans that there are still several others to choose from when it comes to expanding the Insomniac franchise. When💝 asked if he thinks there are many vi💦llains left after Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Intihar responded: "We are not running out of villains," before adding: "I never think we're going to run out of villains, ever." 

Spoiler alert: This next part of the story will mention Marvel's Spider-Man 2's villains and Easter eggs so read ahead at your own risk.

If you're still here, I'm going to assume you've already come face-to-face with the likes of Venom, Kraven the Hunter, Sandman, Lizard, and more in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. You may have also encountered some oth💦er familiar faces throughout the game, as Intihar revealed on the podcast: "I will tell you two things, Otto [Doc Ock] was always going to be teased at the end of this game, but Cindy Moon [Silk] was never first talked about." Clearly, there are plenty of other characters that Insomniac plans to bring into its Spider-Man universe. 

"If we get fortunate enough to keep working on these things," the developer continues, "this is something we might explore." Elsewhere in the same interview, Intihar addressed one of Marvel's Spider-Man 2's villains in particular. When asked why Sandman technically appears in both games (the first being in the form of a collectible) the director replied: "He's out" - which basically tells you all you need to know about the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Sandman plothole. 

Although it's not been confirmed just yet, Insomniac's developers have 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:teased an "epic" third game as well as talked about the potential for a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Venom spin-off title. We'll have to wait and see to find out wh🌱ich villains are set to appear in either of these potential futu﷽re titles. 

Take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Spider-Man villains list to find out who could one day make their way into another Marvel's Spider-Man game. 

In case you weren't aware, Peter Parker has a new party trick in Marvel's Spider-Man 2. As demonstrated in this video from Dan Allen Gaming, all you have to do is perform a dive by hitting L3 from a swin🐷g or glide and then hold down square and pull down on the left stick. I was able to test this out myself and perform 𝕴the maneuver from a jump off of the Empire State Building after a few tries, and it is every bit worth the effort.

I can also confirm that Peter Parker is able to piece together the Rubik's Cube in just about three seconds flat, beating the real-life world record currently held by Max Park, who was able to solve the 3x3x3 Rubik's Cube in 3.13 seconds in 2021. In all honesty, I'm not sure my phone's stopwatch is up to Guinness World Records' standards for deciding this sort of thing, nor do I reckon the organization takes feats from video game characters into consideration at all, but I also don't think Max Park solved his Rubik's Cube while diving from one of the tallest buildings in New York. For that reason, I'm happy to give Peter Parker some recognition here.

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Speaking on , Bryan Intihar - the director of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - talks all about the sequel, including that Sandman plothole. If you played the first Marvel's Spider-Man game, you'll probably remember Peter Parker's backpack item collectibles. In one of the backpacks, players will find a vial of sand, which is clearly a reference to the grainy Spider-Man villain, Sandman. As we now know, the villain somehow got out of the vial and be🔴came a boss in the sequel. 

When asked on the podcast if there was an explanation behind this, Intihar simply said: "He's out" - proving that there really isn't a reason for Sandman to appear in both games, he just does. "See, this is the stuff t🌄hat keeps me up at night," Intihar tells IGN, "when you guys talk about that I'm like 'Oh my God, I didn't think about that?! What are we going to do?!'" We should probably forget about the vial of sand for the benefit of Intihar's sleep schedule. 

This isn't the only thing the Spidey sequel's director revealed in the podcast episode. On the topic of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Easter eggs, Intihar addressed the missing Nelson and Murdock sign and told fans to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:"stay tuned" giving Daredevil fans something to theor🥃ize about. It's not exactly clear what this means, but we've got our fingers crossed for some future꧟ DLC or maybe even a Marvel's Spider-Man 3. 

In other Marvel news, Insomniac has confirmed that Marvel's Wolverine will take place in the same universe as the Spider-Man games. We're definitely getting ahead of ourselves here, but this could mean that the two superheroes could cross paths one day. With Daredevil's Murdock and Nelson also in the same universe,ꦕ we wouldn't be surprised if Insomniac is working on its very own Marvel Cinematic Universe. 

Wondering what other superhero games are on the horizon? Take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Marvel games list. 

Speaking on , Bryan Intihar - the director of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 - discusses the Spidey sequel, and more specifically, the missing Nelson and Murdock sign players have spotted in the virtual New York෴ City. When asked what happened to the Daredevil characters' law firm, Intihar replied: "That's a good question… stay tuned." Which has given us more questions than answers. 

For new players, in the first Marvel's Spider-Man game p꧃layers were able to spot Nelson and Murdock's business by its plaque on the front of a building in Hell's Kitchen. In the sequel, the building is still there but the plaque has nothing written on it, hinting that the pair have moved premises. But, if Intihar's comments are anything to go by, there's a chance we could still end up seeing the pair one day.

Although the director didn't specify what this means for Marvel's Spider-Man 2, in a different interview, Intihar did 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:tease an "epic" third game. Not only this, but we now also know that Marvel's Wolverine will take place in the same universe as the Spider-Man games and that a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Venom spin-off title ✨could very well be a possibility one day. We really are getting our own Marvel and Insomniac game universe so could end up seeing Daredevil in any one of these games. 

Did you spot the missing Nelson and Murdock sign? Find out what else could be hiding in plain sight with our Marvel's Spider-Man Easter eggs guide.  

As spotted by @TheBatman010 (and not 'The Spider-Man') on Twitter, if you head to Central Park in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, you'll find a mural honoring a mysterious person. There's no label on the piece of ar𒉰t, only small offerings like flowers and a Spider-Man plush, so it's not immediately obvious who this is paying tribute to. 

Thanks to another Twitter user, named @, it seems this is in fact honoring Crai♑g Goodman, a technical artist at Insomniac who sadly passed away in 2019 a🥂fter a battle with cancer. 

In shared by the studio after Goodman's passing, Insomniac said that the developer "contributed greatly to our company's legacy and vision to have a lasting and positive impact on people's lives." According to the post, Goodman worked at the Sony studio for 15 years and contributed to games such as Ratchet & Clank (the first and its many sequels), Song of the Deep, and the first 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man game - so it's very fitting to find the late developer in its sequel a💝 few years later. 

This isn't the first time Insomniac has honored Goodman in one of their games. As the same post reveals, the developer also appeared in the form of the 'Craiggerbears' collectibles - which could be picked up across different planets in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. 

If all bears were collected, players could obtain a trophy for their efforts as well as a new message in the game's menu which read: "Mysterious plush bears that seem to show up on every world. They are said t🔯o carry the optimism, kindness, and creativity of a fallen hero missed by his comrades." Which is also an incredibly sweet tribute from the studio.

Find out what else you may have missed with our Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Easter eggs guide. 

Shortly after Marvel's Spider-Man 2's release last week, several players reported running into a glitch that swapped out the web heads for a cute little cube - which you can see in acti𒈔on . Spider-Cube not only appeared in the game's suit menu but, if you selected it, you could actually swing around New York City as the mysterious little entity. 

I'd love to find out the little guy's origin story, was it once a piece of tofu that was also bitten by a radioactive spider? The best part of all of this is that fans got attached t🔯o Spider-Cube pretty quickly, resulting in several fan-art interpretations of the glitch - some of which you can see below.

Unfortunately, Spider-Cube was never supposed to exist in this timeline so Insomniac has now removed the glitch in the game's patch. The hero did get a somewhat proper send off though, as the developer's Twitter account did share a couple of emojis in𓆉cluding a gravestone and a small white cube. RIP to a real one.

"End of an era," one Twitter user to Insomꩵniac's tweet. "MAKE I🐻T A SUIT!," another . "The cube will be missed," a different user .

Although Spider-Cube is no more, another fun glitch allows Venom to go on a tour of New York City. After making a few strategic jumps, one player discovered that they could take the Symbiote out🥃 of the confines of his mission. Be warned, though, there's a possibility it c🙈ould break the game or corrupt your save file. With great power comes great responsibility after all. 

Speaking of glitching the game, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 player discovers Rhino's sinister fate in an out-of-bounds location.

Tom Hardy - famous for starring roles in Peaky Blinders and Mad Max: Fury Road - adopted the live-action symbiote mantle in 2018's Venom film and 2021's Venom: Let There Be Carnage sequel - both of which were hugely successful at the global box office. Following up the actor's wicked performance is a tall order, but Hardy seems to have 🍒been won over by the game's depiction since he captioned a picture of Tony Todd on with: "Legend."

Tony Todd himself is no stranger to menacing villains, as he was also Candyman in the classic 1992 horror flick, so it's not surprising to see Hardy impressed by ไthe superhero sequel's portrayal. 

Players were also so bowled over by the game's Venom, that they found a glitch that aওllows the hulking symbiote tꦆo free roam around the Big Apple. While Venom is dark and brooding in cutscenes,🌞 seeing him ride a bicycle and happily "swim" around the city definitely takes the edge off.

Fans can take comfort in the fact that Venom will (probably) return on both the big screen and in games. A third Venom film starring Tom Hardy is currently scheduled for release on July 12th, 2024. Meanwhile, the game's senior narrative director, Jon Paquette, recently 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:teased that a Venom spin-off coul💫d happen if the fans wanted it enough.

Find out where Venom ranks among the rogues gallery in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Spider-Man villains list.

YouTuber Ellemen recently shared a video titled 'How To Free Roam As Venom' that shows players how to perform a glitch th🍎🔯at lets the symbiote break free of his mission. In the video, the player in question starts the 'Don't Be Scared' mission, which [spoiler alert] allows Marvel's Spider-Man 2 players to temporarily control Venom as he goes on a rampage through Oscorp Tower. 

Before you follo♔w the tutorial, thꦰe video's creator has warned fellow players that the glitch can break your game. Apparently, it will cause enemies to not spawn when you restart the checkpoint, and fellow Spidey villain Kraven the Hunter will also be glitched. It could even break your save file altogether, so it's recommended that you only perform it on a manual save so that you can reload your main save once you're done exploring as Venom. 

As Ellemen explains, you'll need to start the 'Don't Be Scared' mission and progress to the part where Venom is standing in the middle of the city. Once you're free to control him, you need to run up to the building on Ve🌳nom's left and travel up it by continuously hitting the jump button. 

Once 🅘you get to the top of that wall, you need to repeat the same step on the next building to the left. Now you're at the top of this skyscraper, you need to head left and repeatedly jump off the invisible wall to Venom's 🉐right - now you're free to pass the other invisible wall on the left and explore the city as you wish.

If this wasn't exciting enough, Ellemen also points out in their video that Venom can swim (if you can eve🅘n call it that), with "interesting" swimming animations, and even ride a bike - although he's definitely wꦍay too big for it. 

Find out where to find the best Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Easter eggs with our guide. 

Kraven the Hunter is a huge presence in the superhero sequel, as he rampages through New York City in search of🦩 a foe worthy enough for his ‘Great Hunt.’ That hunt puts the character at odds with our own web-headed heroes, but also more than a few supervillains in the game, including Scorpio and Venom. 

But one Sinister Six member that’s mysteriously absent from the game is Rhino, despite his large presence in both 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and 2020’s Mi෴les Morales. An out-of-bounds glitch has now found Rhino’s whereabouts, and the results aren’t pretty. 

Potential spoilers for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 below.

The YouTube video above sees Peter glitching through the terrain and then swinging underneath the city like something ripped straight out of a twisted alternate Spider-Verse. Peter then discovers an ominous area that contains what seems to be Kraven's throne and a trophy wall with Rhino's disembodied head on display. (Oꦰuch.) The other three heads seemingly belonged to Shocker, Vulture, and Scorpio - those last two are untextured, though. 

Kraven's kill list was surprisingly wide-ranging in the sequel, with some kills grossly depicted on-screen, while others were relegated to off-screen references. Rhino, however, is completely absent from the events. Perhaps Insomniac has plans for the horned villain in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the inevitable Spider-Man 3, or maybe 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the Venom spin-off that&apos♕;s been hinted at. 

explained how they discovered the facility: "I was trying ou✨t some glitches that worked on Miles Morales and found out that one of the out-of-bounds bugs still worked, so I started exploring the underground world." Once inside the facility, Clkzins then used the photo mode to bypass an invisible wall and find poor Rhino. Or what's left of him.♓ 

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 sleuths also realized that another major villain was mysteriously absent from the game's events.

Marv💫el’s Spider-Man 2 has 68 suits to unlock between both Miles and Peter, not including the alternate suit styles you can equip for each. That’s certainly a respectable number, but the community is still mourning the loss of several costumes that were left behind in previous games.

Over on Twitter, NebsGoodTakes posted a picture showing off the 29 suits that didn’t make the transition from the original 2018 superhero romp. Among them are fan favorites such as the cel-shaded vintage suit, the costume that stripped Spidey down to his underwear, and the Bombastic Bag-Man suit - which was essentially just the Fantastic Four’s outfit with a paper bag for a mask. The bombastic fumble is particularly surprising since the game already contains a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:couple of refere🧸nces to Marvel⛄’s first family.

One recurring criticism seems to be thrown at the abundance of Tom Holland-era film suits, with several costumes inspired by MCU films, and several more ripped straight from other big-screen Spidey flicks. “They should have just given us the Endgame movie one,” one fan commented. Another said: “I wanted more originals for Pete.” But at least the MCU fits weren’t 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:crowned as the absolute worst.

Developer Insomniac Games added new suits to both 2018’s Marvel’s Spider-Man and 2020’s Miles Morales in post-launch updates. The studio has already confirmed that new suits are 🎃on the way for theꦿ web-slinging sequel, but there’s always a p🌱ossibility that older outfits can hopefully come back, too.

Check out our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 suits guide to see how to unlock every single outfit.

As pointed out by Twitter user @TheeDreadGod, there are tw༒o NPCs wandering around New York City that players can eavesdrop on. The two characters in question appear to be nannies for different families and happen to s💫tart a conversation as Peter or Miles walks past. "I've been nannying on and off with a bunch of different families," one of the NPCs says to the other before revealing that they feel out of their depth with the job.

"I've never even really held a baby before this job," the inexperienced nanny admits, "can you just give me some pointers?" the same character asks - which is when it starts to get a little silly. After suggesting that Nanny 1 uses petroleum jelly when changing diapers, the inexperienced nanny interrupts Nanny 2 and asks: "I'm sorry, we're putting gasoline♒ on these children?" to which Nanny 2 replies: "no, no,🍷 no, not gasoline, petroleum jelly." 

This slightly awkward debate continues with Nanny 1 suggesting terrible🥀 alternatives to petroleum jelly and Nanny 2 getting more and more exasperated as the conversation goes on - that is until J. Jonah Jameson interrupts the pair. The actor's performance does the scene much more justice than my words, but trust me, it's a hilarious exchange. 

It's not just me who's a fan of this NPC dialogue as the above tweet has got a lot of praise from a lot of different people. Fire Emblem and Genshin Impact actor Joe Zieja quote retweeted the video, : "Honestly, sometimes background stuff can be INSANELY fun when they give you this sort of loooong leash to play on. It's rare, but when it happens, man it's a riot." 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Baldur's Gate 3 actor Dave Jones also 🌞the clip along with: "Holy hell, this is *astounding*." 

Indie developer Mode7's CEO Paul Kilduff-Taylor also followed suit and : "The🌱re needs to be a specific BAFTA category which encompasses...all of the things that have gone into this...and it needs to be awarded to only this and then immediately retired." Warner Bros. Games writer Mitch Dyer also loved the clip, saying: "Actors unleashed, is there anything better?" 

Finally, Thomas Was Alone and John Wick Hex dev, Mike Bithell, demanded answers, : "I need someone from the team to DM me if this stuff was all written or if you folks put improv performers in the booth with each other for these moments. Either is impressive. The latter doubly so from a pipeline and approvals perspective." We do already know that Marvel's Spider-Man 2's developer created the sounds of New York City by getting a bunch of people to talk and walk around in circles.

Find out the names and faces behind the performances with our Marvel's Spider-Man 2 voice actors and cast guide. 

If you've read GamesRadar+'s 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review, you'll already know that I reckon its loudest moments are accentuated by its quietest. It's only after seeing other players working through the above scenario, however, that I'm beginning to fully appreciate the weight of possibility here. Sure, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is at its best as a superhero action-role-player wherein you fill the shoes of a high-flying crime fighter whose feet barely touch the ground. But what if Insomniac was charged with building a crime simulator in the same vein as GTA 5 or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:GTA Online, or even the little we've seen so far of GTA 6?

Crime in the city

The ♈above scene couldn't be further from the hedonistic trappings of the Grand Theft Auto universe, but the thought of Insomniac taking its world-building prowess into a different genre was driven home for me via . Away from Peter and Harry's heartfelt set꧙-piece, the player there is seen grabbing an idle bicycle in the heart of Astoria, before riding down the street until the bike vanishes. The world reacts to Spidey's wayward cycling, jumping out of his path, and throwing their arms above their heads in panic. The player identifies the exact location of the bike in-game in the above tweet's replies, and confirms that despite the vehicle's disappearance, the bike respawns in the same place thereafter. It's innocuous, inadvertent, and appears to be either a bug or at the very least an oversight dev-side, but it's cool nevertheless.  

Of course, the GTA fanatic in me means I'm now imagining Spidey hotwiring cars, tearing down Fifth Avenue and emptying the clip of a Micro SMG into an unsuspectin𒐪g gang of Kraven's hunters out the window. I'm picturing him hijacking supervillain drug runs, and setting up his own meth lab-operating motorcycle gang. I suddenly see our not-so-friendly neighborhood negotiator robbing banks while staring down the sights of an Assault Shotgun, owning dodgy nightclubs, a🐼nd stealing vintage vehicles from Eastern European mobsters. 

I'm not sure any of this would fly with Marvel given Spidey's squeaky clean persona, granted, but I suppose the point I'm making here is: Insomniac is at the peak of its powers when it comes to building credible, living, breathing open-worlds; and the studio is even more expert today in filling those confines with blockbuster action. Another studio rising to challenge Rockstar in this space would be great for fans of the genre – especially given the sad fact Sain🅠ts Row developer Volition was shuttered earlier this year after 30 years in operation. 

The closest I think we've seen to a GTA challenger of sorts recently, Just Cause aside, is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Build A Rocket Boy's Mindseye – the game said to exist within 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the dev's upcoming Everywhere – but it's far too early to pass judgment on that one at this stage. Without spoiling anything related to Marvel's Spider-Man 2 story, there is probably a third game in the works already too, which will inevitably be the studio's priority whenever its developers get back from some well-earned post-shipping respite. Still, I don't think there are many, if any, other devs so capable in this space of bringing a city to life to this degree, and I'd love to see it sp♋read ℱits tendrils whenever it finally says goodbye to Peter and Miles.

Unfriendly fire 

Who knows what lies ahead, but Naughty Dog's success across the Uncharted series and The Last of Us is a nice comparison regarding first-party PlayStation studios spreading their skills across genres. The praise the Uncharted games courted at the time (especially 2 and 3) pretty much turned Naughty Dog into a household name, but while it eventually spawned a Hollywood adaptation, I don't think it's unreasonable to say The Last of Us is the more popular series of the two – with all its remakes, remasters and its aꦓcclaimed HBO TV series.  

With such a vibrant, buzzing and accomplished take on a scaled-down New York City – Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, Coney Island, Harlem, and all – Insomniac has the perfect template to build from; to bend and break its familiar formula and the real-world-mirroring laws Spider-Man so closely follows. With GTA 6 surely not too far away, with all things quiet on the Just Cause front, and with Saints Row having retired from the race entirely, is it wishful thinking to pine for an 🎐Insomniac Games slant on the open-world crime sim genre? Almost definitely. Does it make sense for the studio to do so? In 𒆙time, I think absolutely. Could it deliver? Well, as a wise character once said: With great power comes great responsibility. 

Here are the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best action games bringing the noise right now

This article contains spoilers for Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

When asked about p꧂otential plans for Marvel’s Spider-Man 3, in an interview with YouTube channel , director Bryan Intihar made comparisons to certain MCU films. “If Spider-Man 1 [was] like our Iron Man, and Spider-Man 2 was like our [Captain America] Civil War… Where logically do we go from there?” Intihar continued to tease that “it could be pretty epic.”

The metaphor is intentionally vague, buಌt it essentially means that the first superhero romp was an introductory story and the second game was a bigger crossover between heroes (Miles and Peter.) But what would be the MCU counterpart for a Spidey threequel? The best guess is probably Infinity War, based on the “epic” tease.

That could potentially mean that Peter and Miles will be swinging up toward the cosmic voids, into the spider-verse, or just to more “epic” territory, whatever that might b🀅e. Thanos, however, is presumably off the table since he’s not traditionally a Spidey-centric villain, espec🌸ially without the Avengers running about.  

As we explained in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:guide to Spider-Man 2’s ending, a post-credits scene introduces us to a fellow (maybe-soon-to-be) web-sli꧋nger called Cindy Moon, otherwise known as Silk. She normally has conn꧃ections to the multiverse in the comics, so Insomniac might follow the uber-successful animated films and sling across the spider-verse. That Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart tech is sitting right there, I guess.

Check out what Silk’s introduction could mean for Spider-Man 3.

As reported by GamesIndustry.biz's Christopher Dring on Twitter, Insomniac's Spider-Man sequel has already performed very well. Digital data is still yet to be revealed but, at the time of writing, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is the fourth biggest physical release of 2023 in the UK, behind 澳洲幸运5🌺开奖号码历史查询:The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingd🌜om, EA Sports FC, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hogwarts Legacy. Dring also reveals that the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 exclusive beat 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Super Mario Bros. Wonder to the top spot to become the UK's best-selling gam𝕴e of the week. 

Interestingly, Dring's tweet also says that Marvel's Spider-Man 2's physical launch sales are 20% lower than what 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:God of War: Ragnarok managed to get around the same time last year. The sales 💃figures also show that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is "significantly down" compared to the first Insomanic Spider-Man game, but this is likely due to an increase in digital game sales compared to back in 2018. As Dri♛ng has said: "It isn’t possible to draw any conclusions until the download data is in."

In our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review, we called the Spidey sequel "quite simply the best superhero game yet" and gave it a glowing five out of five stars - praising its gorgeous visuals, vibrant New York City setting, and fun combat and traversal. So it's no surprise that it's only taken three days for the game to get close to catching up to the likes of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdo💮m and Hogwarts Legacy. We'll have to wait and see exactly how well it's sold in the UK once the digital data has been r🐬eleased. 

Ready to take on great power and great responsibility? Take a look at our best Spider-Man 2 skills, gadgets, abilities, and suit tech guide before you get started.

Bryan Intihar, creative director of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 took to X just thꦗe other day to sing the praises of game videographer Much118, whose recent video m𓆏anaged to mimic the Into the Spiderverse movie's Leap Of Faith scene almost perfectly.

Captured entirely within Marvel's Spider Man 2 game, th🏅e camera angles and flips line up so well with the original movie's iconic scene, that Intihar seems lost for words in .

"I mean…how is this…just wow…" he says.

Granted, the video's designer does this kind of thing in a professional capacity, with their bio listing clients such as Sony Santa Monica, CD Projekt Red, Ubisoft, and PlayStation Access. But as the comments section points out, this is one of their most impressive feats yet. And to have caught the attention of the game's creative director, whose work on making 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Miles and Peter so darn relatable is garnering a lot of positive attention at꧋ the mome🤪nt, is something to be immensely proud of.

Over on Much118s YouTube channel, their about page says "I play, capture and edit short movies and trailers showcasing and highlighting the beautiful𓃲, unique and fun gameplay of some of the best games in the medium."

That includes everything from "Precise parries, slick combos and brutal takedowns, always loꦦ🌌oking for the best angle, the right light and breath-taking vistas."

This one certainly captures a lot of breathtaking vistas - jumping headfirst into trafꦕfic from a skyscrap🃏er certainly counts as breathtaking in my book - but it also showcases Much's aptitude for working to a tight and specific brief. 

That's a skill that any videographer should strive tow🦂ard achieving, especially if they're looking to get gigs from the industry's big-name-developers.

In response to Intihar's flattery�𝔉�, Much's comments reflect a supremely positive opinion on Marvel's Spider Man 2 as a whole. "Thanks for making a masterpiece of a game!"

In our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review our Joe Donnely raved about the game's story, as did many of the game's reviewers. In particular people have been heavily invested in the portrayal of the protagonists' backstories, and how the studio chose to represent their innermost feelings throu🐽ghout the narrative.

Aside from Intihar's comments around the fact that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:lon꧂ger isn't always better for games, he says that in order to help players connect with Peter and Miles on a more intimate level - as you should with a๊ny character you embody in a game - it was important 🐻for them to demonstrate their battles with grief, the difficulties of growing up, and how they deal with forming (and breaking) relationships.

His conclusion is that the level of connection players feel with Peter and Miles is down to their being just normal men.

They're r🌸elatable on a level few other Marvel characters are, because they're just dudes doing normal dude stuff, only with a few inhum𒁏an abilities thrown in to make things a little more exciting. 

It's not the spidey-moves that make a com🍒pelling character,𝕴 it's the human angle.

Intihar compares Peter and Miles to some of the franchise's less relatable characters, saying "I love To🥂ny Stark, but it's hard to identify with a billionaire, right?" 

It's true, the majority of the population probably do have trouble stepping into the b🌟espoke and exo🦂rbitantly expensive shoes of the one percent. I know I do.

"And look at Thor. Great hero, but it🌸's hard to identify with a god." I'm not sure about you, Intihar… 

These a꧅re fascinating insights into the mind of Insomniac Games' creative director, in any case, and it's great that he was able ♋to shed some light on what he feels is most important to players when it comes to game characters.

Here's hoping more game studios take note, and inject their storylines with more 🍰rꦕelatable happenings in characters' lives.

The reason I wish I had hel꧟d off for a few more months is that Insomniac recently took to the to list the accessibility support that will be in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 at launch and what options will arrive in December 2023. While it isn't uncommon for a developer to release a post-launch accessibility update, what is uncommon is how transparent Sony Interactive Entertainment has been about all this ahead of release. I applaud and appreciate PlayStation for taking this step as it's something I've been wanting to see from publishers for a while now. 

So, what accessibility support is coming to Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in December? There will be a screen reader, which will include an option to set a repeat timer so if you miss a line o🀅f text, you can set how long of a delay before it will repeat🍸 that line. Audio Descriptions for in-game cinematics, Full captions for sound effects and combat music, controller remapping, and more. That is a lot of accessibility to sadly not have at launch. So if any of those features are options you need, you can either buy the game now and wait for the free update to release or just hold off and wait to buy in December.

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 accessibility at launch

With that being said, I do want to talk about what accessibility is in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 today, knowing that there's still more to come. Most of the accessibility in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is primarily a culmination of all the accessibility Insomniac has done in its previous Spider-Man games and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. So i꧟f you are familiar with those games and their accessibility options, you will be comfortable with what's here.

There are accessibility presets for Vision, Motor, Hearing, and Motion sensitivity that will enable multiple options labeled for those specific disabilities without having to go into the main menus and manually enable them yourself. Even though Audio Descriptions and the screen reader for blind players aren't present at launch, there are several options for some of the blindness spectrum, like High Contrast Modes and larger waypoint icons. High Contrast Mode will allow you to add shaders to all the characters, and you can manually set the colors you want to identify the character you're playing, your allies, as wel🎉l as all the enemy types – whether unarmed, armed, or brute characters or bosses. It can also identify objects or areas you can interact with in your environment if you need to f🃏ind the next part of your mission.

For deaf/hard of hearing players, sadly again will have to wait to get full captions which will provide captions for non-speaking dialogue as well as sound effects and music cues. But at launch, there are customizable subtitles to adjust text size, speaker tag, background, background opacity, and text color. They even have a cute little Spider𒀰-Man head ꧋icon to tell you whether it's Peter or Miles talking while they are in their spidey suits. 

It's also worth flagging that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is great for Deaf representation. Insomniac introduced a deaf character named Hailey in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel&apꦜos;s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, an artist and friend who speaks with Miles through ASL. The 2020 release featured Narrated ASL support where, whenever Hailey speaks, her lines are not only subtitled but narrated by Deaf actor Natasha Ofili and it's great to see that return for Spider-Man 2. Additionally, for deaf/hard of hearing players, there is the ability to turn off or adjust the ꦰaudio frequencies. So for instance if you find that the high pitch of an explosion to be painful, you can turn the high frequencies off. Or in the same explosion,🐼 if the low rumble of that explosion is not comfortable, you can turn off that frequency as well.

For Motor disabled players, Insomniac has introduced two new features that I think benefit everyone and that's in regards to combat. The previous Spider-Man games have been called very button-bashy, in terms of how much you are constantly hitting buttons when attacking or dodging enemies. To address that, Insomniac has added an option called Melee Mode that when enabled you can hold down on Square to do a single attack, a four combo move, or to continuously attack. That way you aren't having to mash that button every time you want to hit someone. This allows you to focus on dodging ene♛mies without interrupting your attacks. 

Speaking of dodging you can also enable a similar option called Continuous Dodge when you hold down on Circle, you will constantly be dodging until you push another button to interrupt that dodge. To go even further, the studio borrowed an option from Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart that allows you to adjust the game's speed so you can slow down combat to make the combat less frantic and give you more time to stra💙tegize your attack better. Believe me, those options came in handy for me in my playthrough, particularly towards the end of the game when enemies were coming at me so quickly that it was hard to keep up. 

Verdict

There is one major blocker that I do have to mention, and that's in regards to a mini-game involving the trigger buttons on the PS5 DualSense controller. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Prowler Stash side quest involves finding hidden tech throughout New York City; when trying to scan the relevant areas, two vertical bars pop up on the screen with a horizontal gray bar in each and a yellow target. You have to subtly push down on both trigger butt💝ons to try to line that yellow target to the horizontal gray bar and then hold it there for a few seconds to complete the mini-game. There is no way to skip them, simplify them, or an option in the settings to help with them. So if you have trouble with fine motor control or pushing down on the triggers is uncomfortable o♌r painful, doing this task will be very difficult. This quest is skippable as its main purpose is to unlock Tech Gear points to level up and to try to 100% complete Spider-Man 2. However, this mini-game pops up twice near the end of the game and you can't move forward in the story until you complete it.

Overall, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is good. It is one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best superhero games I've played. The story is compelling, has great emotional and fantastical moments. The characters are really great and stand out. It definitely lives up to Marvel's Spider-Man and Spider-Man: Miles Moraꦗles in so many ways. It's also one of the rare games I personally was able to roll credits on. However, until that update in December, I don't feel comfortable giving the game a recommendation until we see full accessibility support introduced. If any of what I mentioned doesn't affect your disability then I would recommend the game now, otherwise, wait until December.

“Man, that’s a hard one,” Lowenthal said in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:an interview with Gamesradar. “It’s hard with all the things that we’ve built𓆏 to not love the relationship Spider-Man, Peter Parker, has 🎃with Otto Octavius, Doctor Octopus.” He’s of course referring to the mentor-mentee relationship that was central to Insomniac’s first superhero outing, but the actor had another surprising baddie in mind.

“One of the villains I’ve always loved, and that I pushed for in the games early on, is Spot,” he continued. “I was like, ‘Can we get Spot in this game [the se🌺quel]?’ And then of course, he ends up showing up in the movie [Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse], so I kind of get the best of b🎐oth worlds.”

Lowenthal previously mused that S🔯pidꩵer-Man’s rogues gallery was second only to Batman’s, and he 💙continued to assert that “they’re some of the most memorable bad people out there.” But upon reflection, Lowenthal had a second, even more unexpected, pick. “I say it now as tongue-in-cheek because I feel kind of like an asshole even saying this, but Peter's greatest villain is… himself,” the actor said. “It's that guilt, his lack of confidence, and he beats himself up much more than any villain would ever do."

When it comes to his own sequel’s big bad and arguably Spidey’s most recognizable villain ever, Lowenthal admitted he didn’ꦑt have much history with Venom: “I mean, everybody, everybody, loves Venom. It’s funny because I didn’t grow up reading Spider-Man comics at the time when Venom was big. So I know Venom is huge for a lot of people, but maybe less so for me because I imprinted on Spider-Man way before Venom was around.”

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is out worldwide today - an event that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:forced fans𒅌 to go into lock🌜down to avoid spoilers.

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In 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2, however, Peter's submission to the black suit is more complicated. The same behavior changes consume the star of the show, but all told this slant on the symbiote, Spider-Man, and, ultimately, Venom is far darker; more closely aping its The Amazing Spider-Man comic run, as⛎ opposed to the suit's myriad appearances in other media since. 

I won't spoil anything here, but suffice to say this process in Insomniac Games' much-anticipated follow-up uncovers a moodier, more twisted and volatile side to Peter Parker's Spider-Man. And for Yuri Lo🍨wenthal, the actor and voice actor who helped bring the character to life, that was exactl꧙y what hooked him from the outset.

"Even from the outline of the story, I got so excited," Lowenthal explains. "Not just because we were getting to tell a Venom story, and getting to tell a symbiote story, but also because we were getting to tell a story with a fundamentally different Peter Parkeꦓr. And any actor will tell you that they'll play a villain in a heartbeat. You know, we prefer playing villains to heroes because it gives us license to behave badly, with no social repercussions." 

"That said, I was unaware how difficult that would be for me. Peter is so, well, Peter, he's our friendly neighborhood Spider-Man, and so making him antithetical to all of those thin🌼gs was challenging to the point where it l♌eft me exhausted at the end of every working day."

Back to black 

Albeit gradual, the pivot in Peter Parker's persona in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a distinguished one, wh🃏ich sees the OG Spider-Man steadily losing sight of what's important to him. Supporting characters like Miles Morales, aka the game's other playable Spider-Man, and Mary Jane Watson do what they can ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚto steer Peter from temptation, but the inherent strength of the symbiote suit proves a difficult obstacle to shift.  

A moodier protagonist, of course, calls for a moodier performance. I ask Lowenthal if this impacted his approach to his acting methods, his preparation or his down time. "I didn't bring my work home as such," he says, laughing. "But, again, I was going home exhausted at night unlike before and I wasn't used to that. I'd gotten into a very easy place with Peter, and suddenly I was required to shov꧑e him into a different box, and that was always ꦿweird, and physically and mentally exhausting. So I brought that side of it home."

"But my wife, who played Yuri [Watanabe] in the first game, she, just like that character, will not take any of my shit. Then there's my son who's seven, he's jumping around like a superhero most of the time anyway, so I feel like I still get to live that life when I get home. It's funny, because my son was like two or three when we made the first game. When I was leaving for work every morning, telling him I was going away for the day to be Spider-Man – it occurred to me later on that he might have thought I was going out to be actual Spider-Man!"

Despite taking nothing for granted while playing such an important role in such a blockbuster video game series – a gratitude Lowenthal extends to his work across the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mortal Kombat 1, Diablo 4, Redfall and a host of other games – the working life of a superhero video game actor has the same peaks and troughs as any other vocation behind the scenes. Which is to say: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 in its finished, super-polished, five-star state after several years of development, crafted by thousands of hugely talented individuals is great; but it's always worth remembeไring just how much goes into bringing such an ambitious undertaking to life. 

By Lowenthal's own admission, his part in this is to bring a performance that's as full and as natural as the virtual world the developers around him have created. When filming and motion-capturing the game's breakneck, larger-than-life cutscenes, this might see the cast in its entirety gather in the studio, pouring their collective blood, sweat and tears into the headline-stealing set-pieces tha🐓t feature in the final product. Other times, it might require Lowenthal to spend consecutive days in an isolated booth, recording and re-recording seemingly trivial (but no less important) lines for open-world segments opposite performance ꦕdirector Kris Zimmerman.  

"I'll🔯 tell you something, and I don't think I'm speaking out of school when I say this," says Lowenthal. "When Insomniac casts people, they cast them for the role, for the story, and to be part of a family. And that last one is equally important, maybe even more important than the other two, to be honest, but they definitely pay attention to all three elements. They need to know that each actor is a person who's willing to come and play and be creative and work with other people and not fill the room with an ego, or to cause problems because, you know, this takes a lot of work, and the♏y don't have a lot of time to do it. And everyone I've worked with on these games has been amazing [with this in mind]"

"As a personal thing, though, if I know their career, I can't deny that's exciting. Like when Mark Ralston first came in, you know, to play Norman Osborn. I waited a couple of days of working with him before I said, 'Hey, Mark, what's, what's the statute of limitations on asking you to tell stories about working on Aliens? Are you cool about it?'" And the same goes for Tony Todd – he's the Candyman, you know? Tony and I worked on something recently so we have a pre-existing relationship, but even still, when he walks into ♈a room it definitely takes a second to get past his career and all the characters he's played. Luckily, Tony is a very loving, giving, collaborative actor, and he's just so cool."

 With great power 

Believe it or not, everything up to this point is the easy part for your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man. The acting, the voice over work, the mo-cap performances, the years and years of hard graft, of injecting love and personality into every recording, and then going home exhausted in the real-world, having saved virtual NYC across Manhattan, Harlem, Queens, Brooklyn and Coney Island from some of the toughest supervilla🌱ins the city has ever seen in-game. 

That is a walk in Central Park. The hard part, for Lowenthal at least, is this 🌄part – where Marvel's Spider-Man 2 has only just made its way into the hands of players, and when those same people are still forming their opinions of both Spider-Man's latest video game outing under the care of Insomniac Games, and a perf𝔉ormance powered by Lowenthal himself.  

"This part is maddening," he says. "Right up to this point, you just want people to play it already. I think everybody on the team is the same. Once they were able to let go of it, they worked on it right up until the very last second, refining and refining everything, but I think all of us just want people to play it, to really get into it, and to, hopefully, enjoy it."

"This part is a different kind of nerves because there's nothing anyone on this side can 💦do now. You can never please everyone, but hopefully we'll be able to excite Spider-Man fans and video game fans in the same way we did last time."

This feature forms part of our special On the Radar series celebrating the launch of Marvel's Spider-Man 2. You can follow all our week-long coverage in our On The Radar - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 hub.

Insomniac's latest Spider-Man game has only been out in the world for a few hours, but players are already sharing videos of their playthroughs online. One per༒son is Twitter user @bartonovopolis who shared the below clip with the caption: "I turned off swinging assistance for the first time and…" followed by a skull em♉oji. As you can see from the video, swing assist is actually quite beneficial for players, which this fan found out the hard way. 

After flinging Spider-Man off a skyscraper, the player in question catapults Peter Parker across the New York City skyline. What they didn't quite account for is how ♑difficult swinging across town is when the adjustable swing assist is switched all the way down. After flying through the air and latching onto a nearby building, this player then loops Spider-Man in the air before he smashes into a ledge (it's hard to watch it without wincing) killing the character instantly. 

If you didn't know, Marvel's Spide🦂r-Man 2 has adjustable swing assist and fall damage - making swinging through New York City just that little bit more thrilling. Players can adjust the swing assist slider from 1 - 10 with the lower end being no help whatsoever and the higher end being the standard set by previous Marvel's Spider-Man games. The game automatically starts 🉐at level 10, so it's up to you just how far you want to push Peter Parker and Miles Morales' web-swinging skills. 

As pointed out by PlayStation UK in the replies to the tweet above, this moment feels reminiscent of that scene in Sam Raimi's Spi🍨der-Man 2 movie. In the sequel, Peter Parker tries to regain his lost Spidey abilities by launching himself off a building. As you'll no doubt remember, this doesn't exactly go to plan and results in Peter hurtling towards the ground and hurting his back after smacking himself aga🤪inst a brick wall and falling on top of a car. I'm not sure which one looks more painful. 

Want to know more about the superhero sequel? Marvel's Spider-Man 2's Mister Negative actor says working with Denzel Washington and Jennifer Garner helped bring his character to life.

In an interview with , Marvel's Spider-Man 2's senior narrative director, Jon Paquette, discussed their hopes for the sequel explaining: "I want this to be one of the best Venom stories you've ever experienced."  Insomniac already has a lot of co🅷mpetition, since the character was first introduced in The Amazing Spider-Man comics back in the 80s. Since then, we've seen the symbiote in several places, including movies and cartoon series. 

This time around, Venom is voiced by none other than Tony Todd (aka Candyman), which makes a lot of sense considering the actor's frightening tones. If it wasn't already obvious - from the monstrous Marvel's Spider-Man 2 collector's edition statue that shows just how big the villain is compared to Peter and Miles -Insomniac's version of Venom is definitely a force to be reckoned with. I can't wait to see even more of the character🥃 now that the game is officially out. 

Elsewhere in the interview above, Paquette discusses the possibility of another Marvel's Spider-Man spin-off ﷽game - similar to Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. "So, here's what we're doing," Paquette tol♕d the publication, "we're focused on Spider-Man 2, and what we're gonna do is we're gonna wait to see how the fans react." 

The developer continues: "We're going to listen to the fans and we're gonna a♒sk ourselves 'Okay, what do the fans really want?" Paquette then elaborates, adding: "We'll kind of talk about stuff after we've all had time to sleep and take vacations."

Find out everything you need to know about Venom, as well as all of the other web-head's foes, with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Spider-Man villains list. 

One moderator post on the reads: "Just a quick announcement, but as I'm sure many of you may know by now, the game has already released in New Zealand and will continue to release around the world, meaning spoilers have reached an all-time high." To combat further spoiler spreads, the mod team isn꧑'t approving any posts until October 23rd to "allow everyone to enjoy the game for 72 hours as spoiler-free as possible."

After the brief downtime period, the mod team 😼will continue with their 𒅌"spoiler reviewal process" for an indefinite amount of time. "As we go further and further away from release, we are likely to go back to normality and get rid of this spoiler approval process," the post continued.

Those who want to discuss the sequel - and there's much to chew on, according to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review - can do so on the two megathreads that remain o🐎pen on the subreddit. Aspi🌳ring web-slingers might want to be careful on other websites, though, as spider spoilers leaked across the internet weeks ago.

Players across the thread were excited about the downtime and understanding abou🏅t the decision. But one Redditor, faylasuf, mentioned thaℱt the Final Fantasy 16 subreddit instead opted for "progression-based discussion threads" that allowed fans to discuss mid-way through the game. "There are so many times when I've got to a mission or cutscene where I've been desperate to discuss it with others, but too scared to go on to the discussion thread in case I come across a late-gate spoiler," one fan responded. Here, here.

Before jumping into the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:significantly darker sequel, you should note that 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:puzzles are skippable from the very beginning of the game - just in case brain scratching isn't what you come to Spider-Man for. Be sure to also check out the 澳洲幸运5开奖♑号码历史查询:8 tips we wish we knew bef🌟ore starting.

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Even Venom, who likewise features prominently in Insomniac Gamﷺes' incoming sequel, first hit the pages of print in the late 1980s – making this relative newbie a 30-odd-year-old fixture in the life and timesಞ of the web-shooting wonder. 

Mister Negative, on the other hand, made his first comic book appear✃ance in May of 2007. Over the next decade, the character would feature here and there in various storylines, but it wasn't until Insomniac and Sony Interactive Entertainment'✅s Marvel's Spider-Man of 2018 that Mister Negative forced his way into the spotlight. Played by Stephen Oyoung, the Taiwanese-American actor, voice actor, and stunt performer recalls a time when video game fans were less familiar with a name now synonymous with Spidey, as he appears in video games.

"A funny story about Mister Negative, just in terms of how new he was to some fans back before the first g👍ame," say🦂s Oyoung. "I vividly remember being at San Diego Comic-Con 2018, they'd just shown the trailer for the video game, they'd just announced Yuri [Lowenthal] as Spider-Man, and I then I remember them saying: 'Okay, here's Mister Negative, played by Steven Oyoung. I came out to 8,000 people – and you've never heard silence like that." 

"It felt like nobody knew who this character was, and nobody knew who I was. And so to see the reaction from then to now, that's so satisfying. I gotta give credit to the writing, you know, and obviously the animators. That's one th🃏ing about video game performance work that I love: you get so much you get such a boost from the writers and animators."

Stunt, man

Oyoung says that besides helping 𒊎to bring such a cool and interesting character as Mister Negative to life, simply being able to feature in such a prominent and influential video game was an incredible experience. For him, getting to play a character that was required to perform martial arts, who was a badass, who was bilingual, who was an antagonist but who was also sympathetic – all of these things combined to create the perfect mix of challenge and satisfaction in his work. 

"Up to that point in my career, I had definitely played a lot of bad guys," explains Oyoung. "But very rarely was I able to play a three-dimensional character that you could actually root for, and have all those cool, fun moments with. And then also to see my face in the actual game itself – all I have, I owe Insomniac, and I&apos꧒;m super grateful for that. Any kind of notoriety that I have now, you know, five years later, is from that game. If I ever get recognized, whether it's on a movie set or on the street, it's always by a gamer. And they recognize me for Mister Negative."

It's true that Oyoung's career prior to 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man saw him playing an array of bad guys, but his stunt work also saw him w🌳orking with some pretty distinguished Hollywood talent. As a martial artist, he trained Denzel Washington in close-quarters combat while filming The Equalizer; and did the same for Adam Driver in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Keanu Reeves in 47 Ronin, and Jennifer Garner in Peppermint. 

"I seem to be either training them or getting killed by all these A-list stars," Oyoung says through laughter. "I learned a lot from watching the likes of Denzel, Keanu, Adam, Jennifer, and one thing I  definitely took away from this was that the top of the top, the best of the best, the ones that you idolize – at least the on𝐆es that I worked with – those people were so cool, like, so professional. And so chill with very little ego. Of course, they also got down to business whenever it was t💞ime to do so."

Mr Positive

As for his own business, the fact that Mister Negative was considered lesser known in the landscape of Marvel supervillains actually helped Oyoung's process. Besides scant comic book, cartoon, and even Lego features, Oyoung didn't have an abundance of source material to pull from, which meant less external expectations pertaining to how this character might act and behave, which in turn allo𒅌wed more scope for experimentation. 

Between his outings in Marvel's Spider-Man and its sequel, Oyoung filled the shoes of Jason Todd, aka Red Hook, in Gotham Knights, and likewise provided voice work on this year's 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Mortal Kombat 1 – two household names with passionate and dedicated fan bases. Not that Spider-Man as a dynasty is shy of vocal supporters, b♒ut the relative unfamiliarity with Mister Negative as a character ultimately pl🍎ayed in Oyoung's favor. 

"I pretty much had free rein," he says. "And I think one of the mandates that [creative director] Bryan Intihar told me right from the start, when I had questions like, was my behavior correct in this situation or that scenario, I remember him vividly telling me to: 'Just be you, man. Just do you'ꦆ."

Of course, this directive once more applied with the return of Mister Negative, aka Martin Li, in Marvꦯel's Spider-Man 2. No spoilers as to the hows and whys of the antagonist's place in Peter Parker and Miles Morales' new and combined tale, but suffice to say, Oyoung was delighted to receive the call – and cannot wait for fans of Spider-Man, Miles, and Mister Negative to see how things unfold this time around. 

Oyoung says: "Oh, man, I was ecstatic when Insomniac reached out again. At first, I thought if Mister Negative were to come back, it would surely just be a cameo. It would just be his face on a newspaper or something along those lines. And then when I got a call… yeah, I was cautiously optimistic, because they didn't initially tell me the scope of Martin Li's return."

"Without spoiling too much for the fans, what I will say is that you'll get what you want. There is definitely a big competition between Miles Morales and Mister 𝕴Negative. So it was awesome. I'm an actor, I love to work, I'll never turn down work, but I 𒁃was also so pleased that they wanted me back. And yeah, we got to do some cool stuff for Mister Negative on this one." 

This feature forms part of our special On the Radar series celebrating the launch of Marvel's Spider-Man 2. You can follow all our week-long coverage in our On The Radar - Marvel's Spider-Man 2 hub.

How to access Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus mode

To play Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus mode you first need to finish the main story (check our guide on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man 2 length to see what you've got left). When you have a completed save, hover over that save slot and you'll see a message pop up in the bottom right corner of the screen telling you that you access NG+. You can then follow the prompt to create a fresh New Game+ save file which wi🐼ll be separate from your existing save, so you won't lose that.

What's added in Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus mode?

Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus gives you access to new features, as well as additional items to unlock. You can also replay the game on harder difficulties, including Ultimate difficulty, while keeping all of your unlocked suits and abilities, and levelling up past Level 60 to reach Ultimate Levels. These provide additional Styles for your 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man 2 suits.

There are also enhancements for your ✃Spider-Man 2 skills, abilities, gadgets and suitꦑ tech, including Golden Gadget styles to purchase, and Suit Tech Fusion which allows both mods in a Suit Mod Group to be active at once. Mission Replay and Time of Day options ♑can also be accessed through the menu, to revisit your favorite quests and custo✱mise how the world around you appears.

There are fresh Suit Styles available for a selection of Peter's symbiote story suits in NG+ too, plus new Marvel's Hellfire Gala suits for both Peter and Miles.ဣ Insomniac Games, Marvel Games, and Gameheads have partnered to create the Fly N' Fresh suits (pictured above).

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In an interview with , Bryan Intihar, creative director at Insomniac, reveals that we're meeting a very different Peter from the studio's previous games. Intihar says that Peter's relationship with the sꦕymbiote is used to explore themes of addiction and that "this isn't the sweet Peter Parker that we love," there's now "a roughness to him." 

This isn't the first time we've heard about Marvel's Spider-Man 2's "darker story." Peter Parker actor Yuri Lowenthal has previously said he researched "the behaviors of addiction" to prepare for his character in the symbiote suit. This, alon⛎g with the addition of new enemies 𓆏Venom and Kraven the Hunter, shows that Insomniac is taking the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man to a much darker place this time around.

In the NME interview, Intihar also touches on Peter and Miles Morales' changing relationship, explaining that "one of the best parts" of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is the way it tests and expands the pair's relationship. "The north star that we've had since the beginning of working on this thing was wanting to deliver the Spider-Man fantasy," the♏ developer says, "But it's equally important to tell ♎that relatable, human story. When you get people to care about stuff outside of the mask, they're going to care even more when Miles and Pete are inside the mask."

We are now just one single day away from playing Marvel's Spider-Man 2 as it's set to release on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 on October 20, 2023. 

Want to get even more excited for its release? Take a look at our glowing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review. 

One recent clip that went viral on Twitter - see below - shows off the near-instant fast travel feature available in the superhero sequel. “The ♒fact that you can travel to any location, even the opposite corner of 𝐆the map, with zero loading is absolutely mind-boggling,” the clip’s poster said. But a small icon that pops up left some wondering if there were any hidden load times during fast travel.

“Could you please patch the ability to either reduce or remove the pseudo-loading animation when using fast travel?” one fan asked on . Another responded with “Who cares? 3 to 5 second loads are amazing.” Hear hear - thre♚e-second loads are genuinely impressive, but that’s apparently not what’s happening in Spider-Man 2.

Insomniac’s ꧅director of core technologies, Mike Fitzgerald, onto the thread to say “That’s a hold-to-confirm but🔥ton,” not a hidden loading bar. “If anyone wants to check,” he continued, “they can look at how late it’s possible to cancel it out when they’re playing.”

Fitzgerald continues: “Last month I brought up whether we should remove the hold-to-confirm, mostly to address that accusation we were seeing. But it was correctly pointed out to me that having a confirmation window was⛦ important for player🍷 usability, which at the end of the day is far more important than Internet cred points (even though we love our Internet cred points).”

In fairness to the internet speculators, Spider-Man 2’s load times do look too quick to be true, but it seems some technical magic beyond my comprehension does make it possible. On his account, Fitzgerald mused about the importance of his department. “Tech talk often comes down to numbers: frame rates, loading🍰 times, etc,” he said. “But if we do it right, our tech is more than that. It takes part in the storytelling, helping give players experiences they've never had and moments they'll never forget.”

Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 swings into action later this week on October 20th and, despite the quick load times, some players 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历🎐史查询:would ra♒ther just web-sling around the city. 

See where Spider-Man 2 ranks on our best Marvel games list.

This news comes from The Washington Post's Gene Park who revealed via Twitter that a "skip puzzle feature is immediately available in Spider-꧟Man 2" and that "you don’t have to wait for a patch" to access this option. If this will be your first time playing one of Insomniac's Spider-Man games, let us explain: throughout various points in the game players will be tasked with completing a number of circuit, spectrograph, and surveillance tower puzzles to progress through the game.

Although a challenging and sometime🐭s fun addition to the game, not everyone is a fan of the change of pace that the puzzles bring. Thankfully, in the first Marvel's Spider-Man game, there was an option in the game's accessibility menu that lets you skip any puzzles you didn't fancy or couldn't get on with during the game. One thing most people can agree on, though, is that the musi🏅c that played while you were completing the puzzles was the best bit. 

The good news is that Park also confirmed in the replies to their original tweet that yes, the puzzle music has the "same vibe" as it did in the first game - which has surprisingly got a lot of fans excited: "[I] loved the music that played in Spidey 1 doing the puzzles. It made m♓e feel like I was doing something tricky but worth doing."

News of this feature has traveled over to ✱ as well🍷, where several fans took the opportunity to share their thoughts on Spider-Man's puzzles. "Puzzles are one of my favorite parts of games, but it's great that people have options," one user shared. "I like the puzzles but always skipped them on repeat playthroughs. They’re not fun the second time around," another fan has said. "I'm operating on a single brain cell, so sometimes puzzles are a bit much for me, glad to know I can skip them if I get into trouble," a final player adds. 

However you feel about the game's puzzles, it's great to see that Insomniac is continuing to implement a number of accessibility options in its game. As well as this skip puzzle option, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 will let you slow down combat for better accessibility and will have 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:custom difficulty settings ๊so that you can fine-tune combat ꦉand stealth separately. 

Find out if it's worth playing the Spidey sequel with our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review. 

Ranking for a spot on our list is only going to get more competitive, too, what with plenty of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Marvel games on the near horizon, as well as new DC games like Warner Bros' 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Wonder Woman game. And while the newly released 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Rivals didn't make our ♎list, it's just the newest example of how this genre is still growing and thriving today.

So, while we wait for all o💦f those upcoming ti💞tles, I'm going to help you find one of the best superhero games that you should dive in and play today. 

10. The Punisher

Developer: Volition
Platform(s): PC, PS2, Xbox

Looking back to the early '00s, The Punisher should be considered amongst the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS2 games and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Xbox games – at least as far as superhero antics are concerned. Developer Volition stepped away from its Red Faction franchise to make what is effectively a continuation of (low-key) one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel movies, with actor Tom ܫJane returning to the rౠole of Frank Castle.

The studio absolutely nailed the gritty brutalis💞m that surrounds The Punisher, wit﷽h action hinging around quick kills, stomach-churning interrogations, and horrendously violent executions. The Punisher game is a riot for those looking for some anti-hero action. 

9. Injustice 2

Developer: NetherRealm
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One

NetherRealm is known for building heavy, brutal brawlers – some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best fighting games of all time, via the immutable Mortal Kombat franchise. Here, the studio applies that expertise to an absolutely brilliant superhero fighter in Injustice 2, a ไsequel that builds smartly on its predecessor's foundations 𝄹with deep character customization and a far broader roster.

With plenty of nods to the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best DC comics stories of all time, a really premium visual presentation, and well-balanced combat systems, Injustice 2 remains the go-to option for fighting game fans looking to settle long-running debates around character p💟ower levels. 

8. South Park: The Fractured But Whole

Developer: Ubisoft San Francisco
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One, Switch

South Park is the king of parodies and didn't hold back on the laughs when they decided to take a spin on the superhero trend. Following the wildly successful The Stick of Truth (a take on fantasy franchises like The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones), The Fractured But Whole sees the kids of the small Colorado town leading their own Marvel/ DC franchises. Lik💫e the first game, you play as the mysterious new kid with a farting ability that will knock the socks off of any six-graders that try to mess with you.

Not only is this game funny as heck, but as you progress, you unlock powers and a backstory. It feels like you are playing pretend with your friends again (adult jokes and all the gore aside). The turn-based combat system also lets you use other characters' superpowers, making sure you get to witness all the unhinged and humorous ultimates on offer. If you love The Boys (aka one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Amazon Prime shows), then you are going to love South Park:♓ T🎃he Fractured But Whole.

Read our South Park: The Fractured But Whole review.

7. Lego Marvel Super Heroes

Developer: TT Games
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One

Lego Marvel Super Heroes may be a decade old, but there's no question that it remains one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Lego games out there. It's a big adventure full of silly superheroics and a window into some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel comic stories that can be enjoyed by kids of all ages.

With over 100 of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel characters to unlock and play as, and with support for local and online co-op, Lego Marvel Super Heroes is one of those experiences that is endless🧸ly enjoyable. If you're looking for pure fun and accessible action, you won't be disappointed wit🥂h this one. 

6. Batman: Arkham Knight

Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One

When Rocksteady launched Batman: Arkham Knight in 2015, it was working to succeed two of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Batman games of all time – the conclusion of a trilogy which had effectively reshaped the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best action games landscape.

Arkham Knight smartly built on the innovations of its predecessor, Batman: Arkham City, introducing a wider Gotham City to explore and secure. It is in many ways the ultimate Batman fantasy, allowing you to really hone in on your desired caped crusader power fantasy while drawing from some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Batman stories to heꦑlp inform𒐪 its core narrative and crunchy combat.  

Read our Batman Arkham Knight review.

5. Marvel's Spider-Man

Developer: Insomniac Games
Platform(s): PC, PS5, PS4

Insomniac Games redefined what a Spide💞r-Man game could be in 2018. The studio took the lessons it learned from building the hyper-kinetic open world found in Sunset Overdrive and𝕴 applied it to a slice of New York City, letting us swing across Manhattan as a Peter Parker already a few years into his career as the wall-crawler.

An original adventure that only draws lightly on the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Spider-Man stories, Insomniac delivered what is undoubtedly one of the best PS4 games of all time. Smart, fast, and fun – Marvel's Spider-Man is one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel games, and it shouldn't be missed. 

Read our Marvel's Spider-Man review.

4. Marvel's Midnight Suns

Developer: Firaxis Games
Platform(s): PC, PS5, Xbox Series X

You have to respect developer Firaxis for attempting to push boundaries. While a great many superhero games are contenders for the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best adventure games of any given year, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Midnight Suns is a strategy experience tha🃏t attempts to provide a new perspective on superheroes.

Drawing on its experience with the XCOMꦍ series – not to mention its love ofꦗ competitive card games and other turn-based battlers – Firaxis pushed a pretty delightful strategy game that's full of heart and character. Come for the massive story, stay for the tactical combat, and fall in love with the surprisingly intimate moments between heroes. 

Read our Marvel's Midnight Suns review.

3. Batman: Arkham Asylum

Developer: Rocksteady Studios
Platform(s): PC, PS4, Xbox One

Batman: Arkham City may have delivered a more comic bo🃏ok fait🌼hful story, and Arkham Knight a far wider adventure, but there's something special in the sharper focus of the video game that started the trilogy.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is arguably one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Metroidvania games of the late '00s, a stea🌟lth-action experience that does an unbelievably incredible job of 🥂making you feel like the caped crusader. With its heavy combat and authentic movement, Batman: Arkham Asylum set a new standard for superhero games – a benchmark that only Rocksteady was able to raise for years to come. 

2. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy

Developer: Eidos Montreal
Platform(s): PC, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X, Xbox One

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy is an easy game to fall in love with. It's undoubtedly one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best single-player games of the new genღeration, an adventure that is full of heart, humor💯, and a fair amount of carnage.

An original narrative distinct from the MCU films, which brushes smartly against some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:bes🎃t Guardians of the Galaxy comic stories, developer Eidos Montreal delivered a generous experience that strikes a delicate balance between expansive combat encounters and calming moments of downtime, givi💧ng you the time to appreciate the chaဣracters and world which surrounds you. 

Read our Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy review.

1. Marvel's Spider-Man 2

Developer: Insomniac Games
Platform(s): PS5

Insomniac hasn't just delivered the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Spider-Man game of all time, but the best superhero game available right now. 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is a triumph, one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best open world games where you're never far from something to catch your attention. Peter Parker and his young protege, Miles Morales, go up against some of the most formidable 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Spider-Man villains in an adventure that never seems to waver.

With utterly sublime web-swinging and exploration, countless cinematic setpieces and invigorating combat encounters, and a smart approach to character customization, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 should not be ignored. It's one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best PS5 games around and is a must-play for every suܫperh🌊ero fan. 

Read our Marvel's Spider-Man 2 review.

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By now, it should go without saying that Insomniac Games knows a thing or two about superhero spectacle. Our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man review billed Peter Parker's maiden voyage under this developer's care as "about as good as superhero gaming gets." Fast forward five years and a new console generation, and I can say with absolute certainty that Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is as good as superhero gaming gets. It's th🔥e quint🐼essential costume caper, larger than life in more ways than one, and whose blockbuster boss battles and mob-fighting forays have set new standards in not just superhero games, but AAA action-adventure games in general moving forward.   

Marvel's Spider-Man 2's busiest moments, though, are accentuated by its quietest. The Manhattan map of the original 2018 outing was a triumph in open-world design, but that game's bustling thoroughfares and scaled interpretations of NYC's busiest tourist spots feel empty in comparison to its (exclusively) PS5-powered sequel. Here, we're seeing the true potential of Sony's cutting-edge hardware, spread across an enhanced version of Manhattan and Harlem, as well as Brooklyn, Queens, and Coney Island for the very first time. In practice, this means more yellow cabs slouching down Fifth Avenue at rush hour, more holidaymakers snapping selfies at Times Square, and, as evidenced by my off-hand nosiness above, more subtle suggestions that this virtual sprawl is alive away from the action. 

The idea that a video game setting can be so well-designed that it can be considered a central character is a well-worn cliche – but I genuinely can't think of any game I've ever played in recent years where the assertion is more true. In Marvel's Spider-Man 2, every journey to and from each breakneck action set-piece feels satisfying, it feels credible, it feels, almost, real. Despite the fact that, you know, you're dressed in increasingly outlandish spandex costumes, and🌠 shooting fake spider webs from devices attached to your wrists en-route to fight a giant man made of literal sand. And, of course, while Marvel's Spider-Man 2 shines in its down time, it absolutely thrives in its moments of carnage. 

There goes the neighborhood

That's likely best showcased when the game's duo of spider men – Peter P⭕arker and Miles Morales – join forces in the throes of fast and furious combat. Following his support act appearance in the first Marvel's Spider-Man, Miles Morales was treated to a full-fledged spin-off in 2020, an expansion that further explored the character's unique story and style. In Marvel's Spider-Man 2, however, both Peter and Miles are fully playable characters, each with their own stakes in the overarching central narrative, and each with their own tailored off-shoot side quests. 

Outside of core missions, switching involves swiping left on the DualSense touchpad and selecting sub-quests dedicated to each character, hitting X, and watching a quick fade-to-b൩lack transition change things up almost instantly. When teamed up in combat, you'll control one Spider-Man with the other offering AI support – either locking horns with individual enemies elsewhere in whichever conflict you've wound up in this time, or assisting in picture-perfect, slow motion, double-team takedowns. 

Surviving these hectic wave-based battle royales requires fast reflexes – flitting between attacks with the square button, dodging with circle, and pulling yourself towards the nearest enemy with triangle – and executing speci💟al abilities at the perfect moment. Unlike the first game, these abilities♐ are no longer tied to specific suits, but are instead assigned via the pause menu. Mixing and matching your favorites is essential in ascertaining what works best and is most effective for you, as is strategizing the order in which you perform them. 

My own preferred Miles combo, for example, saw me kick things off with a blast of Reverse Flux that floored enemies, before quickly doubling down with a hit of Chain Lightning. This, more often than not, weeded out the weakest enemies of the pack, which let me then follow-up on the big guns with Thunder Burst and Galvanise: the first, a devastating area-of-effect maneuver; the se🦋cond, a focused blow that sends one enemy airborne, while also dealing nearby enemies damage too. A cooldown timer governs all of the above, underlining the importance of timing in battle, whereas regular attacks build your focus bar. Only after maxing that out can you either heal or enact the aforementioned slo-mo takedowns, either solo or with your spider-pal in tow.  

Does it come in black? 

A suite of skills, gadgets, and suit tech options likewise complement the more flexible combat systems, with improvements unlocked with skill points accrued by winning battles, and uncovering secrets out on the field. Peter and Miles each have their own individual traits that ai♋d them in combat, while a third tier of shared unlockable skills offer more generalized leg-ups – both in battle and while traversing New York City. 

The latter means of travel is now bolstered by the inclusion of a 'web wing' wingsuit that lets you glide through the skies at any height, as opposed to swinging from platforms above. This is especially helpful when making the journey over the East River towards Queens and Brooklyn, whereby catching wind tunnels – delineated on-scree𓆉n by glowing rings – and updrafts around skyscrapers and industrial air vents helps to maintain aerial momentum, forcing a degree of light puzzle work in getting around that I enjoyed moment-to-moment.  

As for the spider suits themselves, Marvel's Spider-Man 2 boasts 66 in total (34 for Peter, and 32 for Miles), each of which is a nod to a specific era or story thread in Spider-Man's storied multimedia lineage. One of those, of course, is the symbiote suit. And while it's impossible to properly dig into why this is so special here without spoiling some pretty key narrative beats, know that it is special. 

Kraven the Hunter marks Marvel's Spider-Man 2's central antagonist, with some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Spider-Man villains – from Sandman to The Lizard, Scorpion, Mysterio, The Prowler, Tombstone, Mister Negative, Scream, Venom, and more – all showing face in various capacities throughout, meaning Peter and Miles really do have their work cut out for them this time around. And, inspired by the symbiote suit, Peter makes especially light work of it all with a library of OP abilities that'll satisfy any fan's power fantasies. Shooting a web of tendrils from the suit, grabbing half-a-dozen enemies by the skull and slamming them into the concrete simultaneously never, ever, gets old.

Great possibility  

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 also includes a pretty comprehensive suite of accessibility options. I can't speak to their helpfulness directly, but I can say the game includes: Hearing Presets, which let players enable subtitles, make adjustments to the color of subtitle speakers and subtitle background opacity, and tweak music volume and vibration settings. The game includes Motion Sensitivity Presets, that enables a 'slow corner timescale' and 'center dot'; and disables things like camera shake, motion blur, depth of field, and swing camera motion. It includes Motor Presets that aid aiming, melee, and parkour mode; and enables things like continuous dodge, enhanced auto aim, and QTE autocomplete. And it includes Visio🍸n Presets, that enable things like auto-heal, chase assist, and waypoint navigation. 

With navigation in mind, unlocking the world's various districts is a far more organic process in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 compared to its forerunner, with discovery hinged on simply physically entering areas, as opposed to the first game's Far Cry-esque comms tower interactions. Like its predecessor, the Marvel's Spider-Man 2 map is littered with extracurricular activities away from the main quest, that take the shape of designated photo ops, raidable enemy gang headquarters, randomly-generated crime scenes, and time trial-style puzzles, each of which offers a predetermined amount of tokens used to unlock skills, suit tech, gadgets, and more. For a sense of scale, I'd completed less than 50% of the game in its entirety after beating its Story Mode, meaning there's l🐎oads more to dig into after the credits roll.

As it turns out, my only notable criticism of Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is tied to this very point. Despite being succinctly-paced throughout its first and second acts, the game's third act struggles to maintain the same consistency in tension and momentum. That's not to say it lacks either, but, similar to the likes of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Last of Us 2, there's a section towards the end where I was sure I was nearing the final scene, before it lulled, then hit the roof and dialed everything up to 11, from that point ꧋onto its climax. The choice puzzled me a little, but it's perhaps reflective of a wider issue pertaining to sequels in 2023, where💮by value is unreasonable tied to the length of games, and wherein devs feel under pressure to go bigger and bolder at any cost. 

I'm speculating, of course, and all of this matters a lot less when a game like this backs it up with quality 🤡across the board. Through all of this, I reckon Marvel's Spider-Man 2 does something few game sequels are capable of – it feels fresh and new, innovative and expansive, and familiar and deferential all at once; constantly shocking and inspiring awe, all the while tilting its cap to decades of inspiration from one second to the next. 

PlayStation Studios and Insomniac Games' much-anticipated follow-up, then, is the result of years of evolution and iteration, both from Insomniac Games itself, and within the wider superhero action-adventure genre. And it shows. Just about everything here is an improvement over the original game. The combat and gadgetry is a tangible, if sometimes shameless homage to Rocksteady's Batman: Arkham series. And the breakneck traversal is a tribute to anyone with a passing interest in the subject matter, or anyone else who's ever dreamt of saving the world or defying gravity by flying through the skies. Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is, quite simply, the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best superhero game yet. 

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was revie✤wed on PS5, with code provided by the publisher. 

Back in 2020, ahead of the launch of both the game and the PS5 itself, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:creative director Marcus Smith said that "Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart is ♍a game that utilizes dimensions and dimensional rifts, and that would not have been possible without the solid state drive of the PlayStation 5." That statement has proven weirdly controversial among console warriors over the years, though it's always been clear enough that the quote was referring more to the type of SSD the PS5 uses than some special property of the console itself.

Digital Foundry's John Linneman pro🌌vided a clip of the PC version of Rift Apart running on a minimum-spec machine equipped with an original PS4 hard drive, and the results are predictably disastrous. In the game's breakneck opening sequence, where you instantaneously travel through a series of portals to other worlds, just getting through a single portal queues up a loading time over a minute long.

Linneman that Rift Apart is somewhat more playable on a faster hard drive in a higher-spec PC, but it's still not a match for a proper, modern SSD. I guess that technically means Rift Apart is "possible" without a PS5-grade SSD, but I'm not sure I'd categorize that clip as appearing at all playa🌠ble. ꧟One couldn't resist a little "as we said" jab with these results.

The PC release of Rift Apart has had its own weirdo-driven controversy, with some suggesting that its existence is a betrayal of that original quote. Folks, again, that quote is about SSDs - but for what it's worth, the PS5 version of the game still loads margina𝔉🎃lly faster than even a high-end PC equipped with a top shelf SSD.

Early testing from suggests that the game isn't taking full advantage of the highest-end PC SSDs in general, and that there are a few stability issues and missing graphical features that are preventing this from being a perfect port. It's still substantial🐽ly better than the ℱlaunch version of The Last of Us Part 1 on PC and much more in li♋ne with Sony's better-regarded PC releases. 

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Project director Erin Eberhardt spoke last year in 2022 🍸at a ༺seminar with Full Sail University, and a clip of the seminar has now made its way onto . The Insomniac Games project director says she's working on an "unannounced game," but that she "can't really talk a lot about it."

Eberhardt doesn't specifically say whether this game is 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Wolverine, and because the clip is old, there&apos𒀰;s some speculation that the project director is actually referring to Wolverine instead of a more recent unannounced game. It's worth noting that Marvel's Wolverine was announced back in 2021 though, so there's no doubt the project directo🦄r is referring to a game aside from the two Marvel projects.

Right now, Insomniac is likely wrapping up work on Marvel's Spide🃏r-Man 2, which is due to release later this year on October 20. Marvel's Woꦦlverine has no release date however, and we've heard absolutely nothing of the game from Insomniac since it was announced around two years ago. 

There was a rumor earlier this year that Marvel&ap🍨os;s Wol꧃verine could launch as soon as Fall 2024, which would mean Insomniac is putting out two AAA games within 12 months of each other. A third game on top o🍬f these two blockbuster projects might seem unthinkable, but Insomniac does have the backing of a megacorporation in Sony, after all.

On that note, we can be pretty sure whatever Insomniac is working on will be a console exclusive for the PS5 crowd. 

For a look at all the other Sony console exclusives launching over the next year or so, you can head over to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games guide for more. 

Yesterday, developer Insomniac premiered a brand 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:new story trailer for Spider-Man 2, s💜traight from San Diego Comic Con. You can check out the trailer just below, which quietly reveals that none other than Mr. Negative will be returning in some form from the original game, and after having murdered Jefferson Morales, the father of Miles Morales, no less.

You might recall that in the original game, Mr. Negative is defeated by Spider-Man near the finale, and ultimately arrested at some point later. He's referenced in Miles Morales, but never seen in the spin-off. We don't see Mr. Negative in his traditional villain design in the trailer above, but ins൲ꦓtead as regular old human Martin Li, which could mean he's not necessarily back as a villain in the sequel.

reported that at a pane🐓l after the new trailer, Insomniac revealed the sequel will take place roughly nine to 10 months after Spider-Man:♏ Miles Morales. The death of Jefferson Morales took place in the original Insomniac game, so prior to Miles's own adventure, but it certainly looks like Miles isn't just going to let the past events go.

The new Spider-Man 2 trai🔴lౠer also finally killed the Venom debate, asserting that Harry Osborn is the one powering the beastly new🗹 foe. There's been a tonne of debate online for a while about who would be using the symbiote in the sequel, especially after Insomniac threw out that Eddie Brock wouldn't be in the new game.

You can head over to our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming PS5 games guide for a look at all the other console exclusive coming to Sony's platform within the next year. 

Yesterday, as part of San Diego Comic-Con, Insomniac treated us to a new for the highly-anticipated web-slinging sequel. The video shows Peter Parker, Miles Morales and Mary Jane Watson, as well as Harry Osborn - who is pretty much con﷽firmed to be the game's antagon🍰ist, Venom - and fans were quick 🐈to point out just how impressive their new chara♊cter models look.

"Peter looks 100% better. I hated the v2 face model, but this ♈is a much better version of it," wrote one fan on the . Another said, "Man, I'm so glad they changed MJ's model. Her old face seems so plastic and lifeless to me. Her new face looks like an actual person." A third commented, "Miles' face pairs extremely well with the longer hair and adds some much-needed, I don&apos🥂;t know, I guess dimensions? It looks great."

Fans also showed their appreciation on Twitter, prompting a response from Insomniac's community and marketing director James Stevenson, who teased that Pete and the gang could look even more impressive when 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:the game arrives later this year on O📖ctober 20. "It'll✨ be even better by launch," he wrote.

Alongside the trailer, Insomniac unveiled a limited edition Marvꦍel's Spider-𝓡Man 2 PS5 console featuring a black and red design with the Spider-Man logo and what appears to be the symbiote creeping up from the console's lower corner. Pre-orders start on July 28, and if you already happen to own a PS5, the design is also available as a custom console c💛over.

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PlayStation has revealed a new Marvel's Spider-Man 2 story trailer and limited-edition PS5 console based on the upcoming superh🌸ero sequel.

Both the console and the trailer were rꩲevealed during San Diego Comic Con 2023. The beautifully designed console and controller feature a black and red design with the Spider-Man logo featured prominently and what looks like the symbiote taking over the console from the lower corner. The limited edition bundle includes the console, DualSense controller, and a digital copy of the game. Pre-orders go live on July 28 via , where you'll also be able to buy the custom console covers and controller separately if you already have a PS5.

The story trailer seems to strongly suggest that Harry Osborn, Peter Parker's best friend, ultimately becomes the main antagonist Venom. It's also the first we've seen of Insomniac's take on Harry, a popular character from the Spider-Man movies and comic books who you can read all about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:right here.

Elsewhere in the trailer, we get our first look at Marvel's Spider-Manඣ 2's Mary Jane, who's now working at The Daily Bugle under J Jonah Jameson. MJ's new boss is keen to clean house, leaving her employment in peril. Meanwhile, Miles is struggling to find time to apply to college, and Peter Parker is underwater on the mortgage payments for Aunt May's h⛎ouse. Basically, everyone's in kind of a rough start when the sequel's story picks up 9-10 months after the first game. Somehow though, I expect things to get much worse before they get any better, as the story trailer ends with Venom in a full rage.

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According to , the official Marvel's Spider-Man 2 preload date is Friday, October 13, and you can download the game start🌠ing at 6am PT / 9am ET / 2pm BST. This info was reportedly found on the PlayStation Store after a digital copy was pre-ordered.

The download will be available to anyone with a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-🐓Man 2 pre-order, but just to be clear, it doesn't grant early access to the actual game. The preload just gives you a way to have the game downloaded and ready to go before it releases, saving you time and allowing you to swing into New York as soon as possible. Plus, with a map a✃bout twice▨ the size of the already expansive original, we&aposౠ;re expecting a pretty chonky file for the sequel, so it'll be handy to have it already installed on your SSD when i༺t launches.

Another reason we expect Spider-Man 2 to eat up all of your gigabytes is that Insomniac Games has made it clear it was made with "no compromises" as a PS5 exclusi🧜ve. The original Spider-Man was built for PS4 and later remastered for PS5, while the much smaller Spider-Man: Miles Morales launched on PS5 but was developed to run on PS4 as well. PlayStation🐭 has yet to reveal the file size for the sequel, but we wouldn't be surprised to see it weigh in at over 100 GB.

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As highlighted by Twitter user @SpikeDaHedgehog, Morbius has actually been present in Insomniac's Spider-Man universe for quite some time now. If you've played Marvel's Spider-Man, you'll already be familiar with scientist Morgan Michaels who is working on Devil's Breath. It's probably not a coincidence that Dr. Michaels just so happens to have the same name as Dr. Micheal Morbius' alias in the Amazing Spꦍider-Man 🅘comics. 

Although we do get to see Dr. Michaels in Marvel's Spider-Man, he's clearly not Morbius the vampire that we've come to associate with that name now. Since discovering the connection, fans have been sharing their excitement at the possibility of seeing a new take on Morbius in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

"Imagine if he actually becomes a vampire in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2," one Twitter user . "Maybe they’ll take Morbius in a totally monstrous direction in Spider-Man 2. Like just totally make him like this straight up♔ bat human hybrid thing," another . Plenty of other fans have also theorized that the Morbius reference may be left at just that as the character hasn't been taken as seriously by fans since the release of the 2022 Morbius film. 

Still, it'll be interesting to see if🌳 Insomniac does decide to develop the character. Jared Leto aside, Morbius is just as iconic as the other Spidey villains we've seen in the game so far including the likes of Kingpin, Mister Negative, Rhꦫino, and soon Venom. There's definitely a lot of potential for Insomniac to bring the vampire to its Spider-Man universe, but we'll have to wait and see if this actually ends up being the case. 

Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is set to release exclusively on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:PS5 on October 20, 2023. 

While we wait to reunite with Peter Parker and Miles Morales, take a look at our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Marvel games to see what else we've got to look forward to. 

For those who haven't caught up with their calendars yet, let me tell you that October 20 is also the launch date for another hotly-anticipated upcoming video game: 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel's Spider-Man 2. In the immediate wake of the Super Mario Bros Wonder reveal news, I text my dad – a one-time Super Mario aficionado back in his late 1980s / early 1990s video gaജme-playing hay day – who has now promised to buy my daughter, his granddaughter, the game and visit our house to play it with her on its day of release. 

And so on October 20, three generations of my family will be playing video games in the same room – my daughter, my son, and my father as eleph🅺ant Mario in Super Mario Bros Wonder; and me across the room guiding Peter Parker and Milꦯes Morales around their latest superhero playground in Insomniac's Marvel's Spider-Man 2.

United we play

Better still (or worse, depending on how much time and money you can spare at the moment), between October 10 and October 25 all of these games are set for launch: Forza Motorsport, Assassin's Creed Mirage, Lords of the Fallen, Alan Wake 2, Endless Dungeon, Marvel's Spider-Man 2, Super Mario Bros Wonder, Cities: Skylines 2, and the Alone in the Dark remake. We are, of course, in-line for Starfield and Baldur's Gate 3 before then, and if we consider the fact we've already had Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Star Wars Jedi Survivor, and Diablo 4 this year so⭕ far – with Final Fantasy 16 due on June 22 – this year has been, and continues to be, a pretty amazing and hectic stretch for video games. 

I suspect loads of families and friend groups have experienced similar to what I've described above in this year alone, given the wealth of great, genre-spanning games that continue to land on our plates in 2023 – and it looks like 2024 is hardly slowing down on that front. If you play totally solo, you've also got some pretty big decisions to make in the coming weeks and months, be that which games you decide to splash out on, or, if you're feeling flush and are able to pick up more than one, howꦰ you split your time between them. My kids are too young to watch me kick scores of faceless thugs up and down the Manhattan streets in Marvel's Spider-Man 2, but I'll definitely be spreading myself between that and pushing the boundaries of Super Mario Bros Wonder's manipulatable world by way of its psychedelic consumables. 

You don't need me to tell you that Nintendo caters well for video game players of all ages, but I'm grateful for its unwavering desire to march to the beat of its own drum. With such a big Sony exclusive game launching on the same day, Nintendo could easily have shifted Super Mario Bros Wonder to a different date that didn't coincide with a potential competitor. But it didn't, and while the writer in me is objectively terrified at how increasingly busy the upcoming games schedule continues to be (seriously, we only have so many pairs of typing hands at GamesRadar+, won't someone think of the games journos?), the player in me is delighted that my household geไts to share the joy of such a monumental day in the video games calendar together. 

If that all sounds a bit soppy and romantic, well, I guess it is. But between the stellar 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Xbox Games Showcase earlier this month, the wealth of cool games that surfaced from Summer ဣGame Fest, and now Nintendo's jam-packed, new-Mario-revealing Ninten🍌do Direct, this feels like a great time for video games. And long may that continue. 

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If you couldn’t watch the show as it was streamed live acrꦛoss GamesRadar’s social channels, then you’ve come to the right place. We’ve ꧋put together a list of all of the games shown during the show and the accompanying news, so you can follow up with anything that may have caught your attention.

Before we begin, don't forgeꦿt to head over to our  and check out some of the exclusive demos that launched alongside theꦉ show. 

Also, if you’re looking for more information on the Future Games Show and how to take part in future events, then head over to our dedicated page explaining everything you need to know about the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Future Games Show.

Highwater

The Future Games Show 💎Summer Showcase kicked off with a very special musical introduction. Tamara Jokic and Gilad Barakan appeared on a virtual stage to perform Beyond the Waves from the soundtrack to Demagog Studio’s turn-b♋ased action-adventure Highwater. The performance was intercut with scenes from the game, which is coming to PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S and Nintendo Switch in Summer 2023.

Resistor

The first world premiere of the night provided a look at Long Way Home’s Resistor, a post-apocalyptic CaR-PG where you build a rag-tag team of racers. Resistor is coming soon to PꦜC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch.

Instinction 

A gameplay trailꦯer for Hashbane’s tense dino shooter Instinction dropped during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. Playtests start soon, and you can sign up on the game’s Steam page. 

Star Trucker

A world premiere announcement trailer for Star Trucker pulled in for a rest stop a♋t the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. This big rig odyssey blends 💃the tranquil bliss of the truck sim genre with dynamic storytelling and RPG elements… in space. Star Trucker is coming to a galaxy near you in 2024. 

Lords of the Fallen

Hexworks brought dark fantasy and demon gods to the Future Games Show Summer Showcase with a meaty developer presentati🃏on for Lords of the Fallen. A cha💝llenging soulslike with colossal boss battles and parallel realms to explore, it’s coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox on October 13, 2023. 

Headbangers: Rhythm Royale

Day ba doooo… Day ba doo… it’s world premiere time! Headbangers: Rhythm Royale is a rhythm-based battle royale 💙game where players (pigeons?) compete in mini-games to become the master headbanger. Headbangers is coming, infectious soundtrack in tow, to PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch in 2023.  

The Last Faith

A release date trailer for The Last Faith sliced its way into the schedule at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. A mix of Metroidvania sensibilities with Soulslike flair, The Last Faith looks like a pixellated take on Bloodborne and is coming to PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch in October 2023. Those keen to check it out can re𒁃gister for access to the upcoming beta at . 

Steel Seed

Storm in a Teacup founder Carlo Bianchi provided us with an in-depth look at Steel Seed,ꦗ the studio’s next game. A sci-fi stealth-action platfꦡormer set in the wake of a climate catastrophe, Steel Seed is coming soon to PC, PlayStation and Xbox. 

Distant Bloom 

A gameplay trailer for Distant Bloom aired during the Future Games Show, showing off the game’s serene management systems as you wield the power of plants to restore the envꦉironment of an alien world. Distant Bloom is coming so🍎on to PC.

Go Fight Fantastic

A blend of cinematics and gameplay revealed what players can expect in Go Fight Fantastic, Dinomite Games’ futuristic top-down co-op brawler. Go Fight Fantastic is🃏 coming to PC later this ye𒐪ar. 

En Garde

A tyranny-defying world premiere from the forgotten pages of history… En Garde is a swashbuckling action adventure from Fireplace Games, and it’s coming in the summer of 2023. 𝐆But if you can’t wait, there’s a demo available on Steam right now!

Alaskan Road Truckers

If you like pit stops and snowy l🎐andscapes, this one’s for you! Live the life of a trucker and face up against challenging conditions in Alaskan Road ⛎Truckers, which is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox in Fall 2023.

The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales

A gorgeous cinematic trailer for The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales debꦑuted during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, s💃etting up the premise of this eclectic action adventure. Players will dive into a variety of book worlds and attempt to steal historic literary items to restore the protagonist’s ability to write. The Bookwalker: Thief of Tales is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox on June 22, and you can play a demo for the game right now on Steam.

Deceit 2

A trailer featuring alpha gameplay of Deceitꦓ 2 appeared during this year’s Future Games Show Summer Showcase. Built from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, this social subterfuge game has a beta you can check out right now by heading to . Deceit 2 is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox in 2023.

Life by You

Paradox Tectonic’s♚ King Choi dropped by the Future Games Show Summer Showcase to deliver a developer presentation for Life by You, revealing exclusive footage of the barista job. Life by You is launching in Early Access on September 12, 2023.

The VR Showcase

T🍒he VR showcase returned after its inaugural showing during the Future Games Show Spring Showc🍬ase. This time around, it was, once again, full of VR news delivered by our talented hosts. 

• C-Smash VRS lets you play squash in space and is coming to PS VR 2 on June 23, 2023. You can check out a free demo of the game on the PlayStation store.
• MADiSON VR is a psychological thriller centred around developing photos from an instant camera. It’s coming soon to PS VR 2 and Steam VR.
• VR Skater is kickflipping its way onto PS VR 2 headsets in 2023.
• Firewall Ultra is a tactical shooter coming exclusively to PS VR 2 later this year, and First Contact Entertainment delivered a developer presentation for the game during the showcase.
• Wallace and Gromit: The Grand Getaway is a brand-new VR adventure involving the famous Aardman animated duo. The Grand Getaway is coming to Meta Quest in 2023.

Surviving Deponia   

Another world premiere! Surv🌳iving Deponia is a story-driven survival twist on the cult classic point-and-click series where you’ll build your own base and meet new and old friends. Surviving Deponia is getting an early access release in 2023.

Homeseek

Homeseek is a post-apocalyptic survival strategy game from Traptics in a world where water is the new gold. A brand nꦕew trailer aired during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, revealing that Homeseek is coming to PC on July 20, 2023.

Laika: Aged Through Blood 

Brainwash Gang’s stylish ‘motorvania’ raced onto our screens with a world premiere trailer during the Future G𒅌ames Show Summer Showcase. This narrative-driven motorbike combat odyssey is coming soon to PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch, with a Steam demo launching on June 19.

Space Gears

During the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, Pentapeak Studios delivered a developer presentation concerning the studio's upcoming s⛄t♔rategy game Space Gears, where you'll fight to conquer Mars. A demo for the game is launching this month, so you can terra-form your opinion on it very soon.

Layers of Fear

A cinematic launch trailer for Bloober Team's Layers of Fear debuted during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. The spine-tingling video set up the premise of the forthcoming psychological horror🅷 game, offering creepy scenes of the protagonist jumping between surreal worlds. Layers of Fear has been rebuilt from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5, and it's launching on PC, Mac, PlayStation and Xbox on June 15.

Enchanted Portals

Play as a pair of rookie magicians on a bullet hell adventure in Enchanted Portals, a co-op 2D platformer from Xixo Games Studio. A new gameplay trailer for Enchanted Portals appeared during the Future Games Show Summer Show𝐆case, revealing how the game will use a variety of animation styles across its tricky levels. Enchanted Portals is coming to PC and consoles later this year.

Shattered Heaven

Interested in 🌼a dark fantasy deckbuilding RPG where you'll explore procedural dungeons and make important narrative choices? Shattered Heaven is out now on PC, and a gameplay trailer debuted during this year's Summer Showcase.

Moving Out 2

The F.A.R.T Squad are on a recruitment drive! Multiplayer removal mayhem is back on the menu, as Movꦍing Out 2 is comiไng soon to PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Nintendo Switch. To celebrate that fact, Team 17 debuted an awesome cartoon-themed trailer during this year's Summer Showcase.

Ones To Watch Montage

ܫThe Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2023 Ones to W♑atch Montage featured several exciting upcoming games from a variety of excellent developers. 

Featuring:

• Punch Club 2
• Cross Blitz
• Deathground
• Venture to the Vile
• Unrecord
• Odinfall

Warhaven

A newಞ trailer for NEXON's free-to-play 16v16 fantasy brawler Warhaven appeared dur🌺ing the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. Warhaven is coming to PC in Fall 2023, but you can play it for free during Steam Next Fest, which kicks off on June 19.

SteamWorld Build

The Steamworld universe is expanding o𒁃nce again. Steamworld Build is a city builder from Thunderful where you develop a mining town to dig up lost technology. A new trailer revealed that Steamworld Build is coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation and Xbox in 2023.

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle

Daymare 1994 Sandcastle is a stylish survival horror game with plenty of𝄹 nostalgia for the 90s. A gameplay trailer for Daymare appeared during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, showing the protagonist freezing and defeating some mutated monsters. Daymare 1994 Sandcastle is coming to PC, PlayStation and Xbox on August 30, 2023.

New Cycle

Chart a future beyond survival in New Cycle, a city builder set in the aftermath of a devastating solar flare. A gameplay trailer for New Cycle debuted during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, noting that the game has a free demo that playe🔯rs can check out on Steam. New Cycle is coming soon to𓆏 PC.

Ruffy and the Riverside

Ruffy and the Riverside is a charming mascot platformer where you copy and paste textures to change the game world in a radical fashion. Ruff🌌y was revealed during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase with a funky gameplay trailer. If you’re interested, you’ll be pleased to hear that it’s coming to PC and Nintendo Switch later this year, wit🐼h more consoles to be announced, so get it on your wishlists.

Unreal Engine 5 Showcase

This year's Summer Showcase saw the ♛debut of a new section called the Unreal Engine 5 Showcase, which featured a variety of vistas, demos and game projects leveraging the power of Unreal 𒅌Engine 5.

Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson

We got a face-melting first look at Fre🧸tless: The Wrath of Riffson during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase.☂ A deckbuilding RPG set in a musical pixel art world, it's coming in 2024.

Paleo Pines 

Paleo Pines isꦅ a life simulator where you befriend dinosaurs and build out a roarsome ranch. It's coming to PC on September 26, but you can check out a demo for the game during Steam Next Fest, which kicks off on June 19.

Hammerwatch 2

A trailer for Crackshell's Hammerwatch 2 debuted during the Summer Showcase. Hammerwatch 2 is a co-op action RPG where you'll use your might to fend off beasts and bees in a pixelated world. Hammerwatch 2⭕ is coming soon to PC, but a demo will be available for the game during Steam Next Fest starting June 19.

Ones to Play Montage

Our Ones to Play Montage debuted in this year's Spring Showcase, and it returned in triumphant fashion for the Summer Show. Eve🌞ry game featured in this section has a demo attach🧜ed, which you can play on Steam right after the show! 

Featuring:

• Paper Trail
• Stick It To The Stickman
• Laysara: Summit Kingdom
• Mythwrecked
• Worlds Worst Handyman
• REMEDIUM

Station to Station

The firღst gameplay trailer for Station to Station choo-choo’d its way into the Future Games Show Summer Showcase schedule. Station to Station is a wholesome simulator game where you'll connect voxel railways🌊 to build thriving cities. It's coming to PC in 2023, and you can check out a demo for the game on Steam.

REKA

Iꦑf you've ever wanted to play as a witch, collecting plants and crafting supplies in a giant chicken cottage, today's your lucky day. A new trailer for Emberstorm Entertainment's Reka was dropped during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. Reka is coming to PC in 2024.

Company of Heroes 3

SEGA delivered a thrilling trailer for C♔ompany of Heroes 3 Console Edition during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. The converted version of the PC game is available now, so you can pick it up on PlayStation and Xbox and experience its thrilling campaigns with a controller in your hand.

Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical

A new trailer for Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical gave us a closer look at some of the game's romanceable characters. Show host Laura Bailey (who plays Grace𝐆, the protagonist of Stray Gods) was on hand to reveal that Stra♏y Gods: The Roleplaying Musical is also coming to Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo Switch as well as PC on August 3, 2023. 

Reveil

A thrilling first-person puzzle game set in a sinister circus, Re𝔍veil was... revealed at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase. A story and exploration-൩focused game that marks a collaboration between Pixelsplit and Daedalic Entertainment, Reveil is coming soon to PC.

Pacific Drive

The developers of Pacific Drive stopped by the Future Games Show Summer Showcase to tell us all about their history with station wagons and reveal more about Pacific Drive, the studioಞ's driving-focused survival adventure. Pacific Drive is coming to PC and PS5 later this year.

Cookie Cutter

A techno-pop-punk Metroidvania starring a badass android, Cookie Cutter is a hand-drawn adventure 🍷full of rage and chainsaws, and as our traile🧸r revealed, it's coming to PC in the summer of 2023.

The Precinct

Evoking the classic top-down GTA games, T꧙he Precinct is a 1980s sandbox crime adventure where you play as rookie beat cop Nick Cor💟dell. A world premiere trailer for the game debuted during the Future Games Show Summer Showcase, revealing that the game is coming soon to PC, PlayStation and Xbox.

Luto

Luto is an atmospheric psychological horror exper﷽ience where you play as an unfortunate soul unable to leave the confines of their own home. A new trailer for this thrilling tale appeared during the Future Games Show Summer Sho꧂wcase, revealing that a demo for the game is available now on Steam. Luto is coming soon to PC and consoles.

The Spirit of the Samurai

Our 'one more thing' for this year's Summer Showcase concerned The Spirit of the Samurai, a stunning stop-motion horror Metroidvania inspired by Japanese mythology. The Spirit of the Samurai is coming ♉in 2024, so in the meantime, get it on your wishlists!