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• Gameranx Todd Black on x

  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Wins Big At PlayStation Awards

• Gameranx Ryan Parreno on x

  Budget And Release Window For Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PC Port Has Leaked

• Gameranx Dennis Patrick on x

  Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Cost Insomniac Games $315M

• Gameranx Ryan Parreno on x

  Sony Is Planning More Layoffs At Insomniac And Other PlayStation Studios

• @ronnieblaz3 @ronnieblaz3 on x

  ❌ As of today, Spider-man 2 is UNPROFITABLE🥴 ❌ Sony is also Pressuring Insomniac to make budget cuts!🥴 https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @pc_focus_ @pc_focus_ on x

  PlayStation will close one of their Studios to make budget cuts https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @phasmatis75 Kevin Greene on x

  What we learned from these leaks is that Spider-Man 2 cost three times more to produce than the original Spider-Man game. Despite what is said by people in charge, internally they know they delivered a product with questionable quality. https://kotaku.com/... #gaming #xbox... [im…

• @geronimo_73_ Roberto Serrano on x

  According to @Kotaku, Sony @PlayStation has requested to reduce the number of employees in several development areas to limit first-party production costs, including Insomniac Games, and suggesting a potential closure of an in-house studio > https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @crusader3456 @crusader3456 on x

  May have to play Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction in the near future to cope with the fact I'm not getting a new game for years if ever due to the PlayStation budget cuts. Deeply saddened. https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @melnychuk86 Mark Melnychuk on x

  Spiderman 2 cost $300M. Unreal. https://kotaku.com/...

• @automaticzen M.H. Williams on x

  Your job may be fulfilling and you love the people there, but always remember that you are not your job. Despite how much you might feel like that, corporate minds can and will cut you if it's financially tenable. https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @deeketweak Derek Strickland on x

  This is a great example of the Insomniac Games leak being used to create a macro-view of PlayStation and the games industry as a whole. https://kotaku.com/...

• @carolynmichelle Carolyn Petit on x

  really great (imo) synthesis of noteworthy details in the recent leak that offer a valuable perspective into the challenges being faced in the current big-budget game development landscape, by @ethangach. https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @knoebelbroet Knoebel on x

  The Insomniac Leak mentioned that Sony asked for job cuts and “there will be one Studio closure.” It's unclear if that's still happening or if Sony changed its plans. https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @jcruzalvarez26 Jurge Cruz-Alvarez on x

  This take of what we can get from AAA/First-Party dev at the highest level from those stolen files sure does tell us a lot of where things are at. Doesn't really feel sustainable! Shout out to @ethangach + @Kotaku https://kotaku.com/... [image]

• @jmrivera02 Joshua Rivera on x

  Also appreciated @ethangach exploring what the leaked info from the hack tells us about making big-budget games, and the house of cards it all stands on https://kotaku.com/...

• @ethangach @ethangach on x

  Hacked files released online as part of a malicious ransomware attack offer a glimpse at the complex challenges Insomniac faces juggling teams, projects, and budgets to deliver top-tier games while contending with potential cost-cutting measures from Sony https://kotaku.com/...