Tag: Spider-Man
News Sony Confirms Spider-Man PS5 Remaster Is Not a Free Upgrade
It's not available standalone, either
If you've been keeping up with the news then this story won't come as much of a surprise, but it's still worth having it in writing. In a statement to Kotaku, Sony has confirmed that the upcoming Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered on PS5 will not be available as a free upgrade to those who own Marvel's Spider-Man...
News Your Marvel's Spider-Man Saves Can't Be Carried Over to the PS5 Remaster
Treated as a new release
Marvel's Spider-Man: Remastered sounds like a pretty significant upgrade on the original PS4 release, boasting 60 frames-per-second and numerous graphical enhancements. However, developer Insomniac Games has confirmed that you won't be able to carry your save data from the PS4 game over to the PS5 remaster. This is probably...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales' First Alternative Suit Revealed
Pre-order bonus
Marvel's Spider-Man has a whole bunch of optional Spidey suits to unlock, so it's inevitable that the follow-up will be the same. In Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, you play as the titular younger hero, but that doesn't mean he won't have his own alternative outfits to wear. The very first of these, aside from his regular black...
News Marvel's Spider-Man Has Been Completely Remastered for PS5
Next-gen Peter Parker model, 60fps, and new Trophies
Insomniac Games is probably the busiest studio in games right now, as it’s working on PlayStation 5 titles Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart simultaneously. But this is one of the most industrious teams in the industry, and it wasn’t going to stop there:...
Both games on both systems
This was unexpected. While we were all watching the PS5 showcase, Sony announced some more details on Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. First and foremost, the game is coming to both PS5 and PS4. Yep, turns out it's a cross-gen game. The standard version will be available for $49.99 on shelves and on PS Store. If you...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Gets Explosive PS5 Gameplay Demo
And it looks awesome
As expected, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales made its gameplay debut during the latest PS5 showcase, and boy is it looking good. Our first look at next-gen Spidey is a snowy walk through the city, but quickly transitions to an action sequence full of combat gameplay. The set-piece sees a suspension bridge slowly break down...
Random Villain Turns Hero in Amazing Spider-Man PS4 Mod
Here comes the Spider-Fisk
Listen, it's perfectly simple: people just want to play as Spider-Man in their Marvel's Spider-Man PlayStation 4 game. We want to feel powerful and speedy like the spandex-clad superhero, swinging between buildings with grace before hitting bad guys like a train. But what if you could play as the villains? That'd be pretty...
News PS5 Spin-Off Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is a 'Complete Story'
Will do justice to the character
Insomniac Games revealed a new screenshot of PlayStation 5 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales earlier today, and it accompanied the image with an interview that was published by Entertainment Weekly. In the back-and-forth between the publication and creative director Brian Horton, the developer explains...
News Marvel's Spider-Man PS5 Remaster Rumours Re-Emerge, But Likely Erroneous
Speculation resurfaces
Aw, shucks – here we go again, folks. An excerpt from Game Informer magazine shared on Reddit and later around the web suggests that upcoming PlayStation 5 standalone exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales may ship with a remastered version of the original PlayStation 4 game. This was a popular point of discussion...
News Spider-Man Miles Morales Can Run at 4K, 60FPS on PS5 with Optional Performance Mode
Now we're talking
Developer Insomniac Games has confirmed that PlayStation 5 exclusive Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales will have an optional "performance mode", which offers 4K resolution (we assume checkerboarded) at 60 frames-per-second. For reference, Marvel's Spider-Man runs at 30 frames-per-second on PlayStation 4, so it's safe to say that...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales PS5 Trailer Returns to YouTube After Copyright Claim
Miles away
Update: Looks like Sony's legal team swiftly sorted this issue out, as the trailer for Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales has returned to the platform holder's official YouTube channel. This is a good excuse for you to watch it again: Original Story: Well, this is a weird one: Sony’s upload of the Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles...
News Insomniac Has 'Much of Peter’s Story Left to Tell' for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 on PS5
All systems go at Insomniac Games
Man, Insomniac Games is going full pelt on PlayStation 5 games. Not only is the studio bringing back the beloved Ratchet & Clank with Rift Apart, but another team is hard at work on Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales. The standalone follow-up to the PS4 blockbuster is scheduled to release alongside the next-gen...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is a 'Full Story Arc' with New Villains
Takes advantage of PS5 features
Now that we've got the confusion over what Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales exactly is out of the way, it's time to fully look forward to the standalone superhero adventure coming to PlayStation 5 this year. After the announcement last week, developer Insomniac Games has taken the chance to reflect on the reaction...
News Sony Insists Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales PS5 Reveal Was Not Misleading
"We wouldn't lead with something trivial"
Sony’s big PlayStation 5 reveal event went off without a hitch last week, but perhaps the only blunder the platform holder made was confusing the entire Internet about the nature of Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales. We’d initially assumed – correctly, as it turns out – that it was an Uncharted:...
Not an expansion or remaster
Update: And now developer Insomniac Games has confirmed that Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a standalone PS5 game. The studio will apparently have more to share in the future. Original story: Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales has been the source of much confusion following a very vague, and to be frank, poorly worded...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Is a Remaster of the 2018 Game with New Content
Takes advantage of PS5
Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales was one of the more surprising announcements Sony made at its PlayStation 5 games reveal event last night, but what actually is it? Is this an entirely new, full-length game? Or is it something more akin to InFAMOUS: First Light on PlayStation 4? Well, we now have our answer and it may...
Gallery Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Swings High in PS5 Screenshots
Spidey-sense is tingling
Perhaps the biggest shock of Sony’s big PlayStation 5 reveal presentation is that Insomniac Games is working on a new Marvel’s Spider-Man game starring Miles Morales – and it’s due out later this year. While we don’t know much about the game yet, these new screenshots captured on next-gen hardware should whet your...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales Announced for PS5, Holiday 2020
Next generation
Well we didn't see this coming. Sony announced Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales during its PS5 event. It's simply described as "a new adventure from Insomniac Games". It's coming to the next-gen console supposedly at launch, in holiday 2020. You can get a quick glimpse at the game thanks to above trailer. It looks good.
Random Kid Playing Spider-Man PS4 Is the #Content You Need Right Now
Swing star
How about something a little more uplifting? This video went viral on social media over the weekend, as it shows a kid playing Marvel’s Spider-Man for the first time. The slick superhero title is hugely satisfying, and the boy is clearly having a blast as he gets to grips with Peter Parker and swings through New York City. The clip...
Don't get your hopes up
Update: The first game from June 2020's PS Plus update has been announced, but it's not Marvel's Spider-Man, perhaps as expected. Call of Duty: WWII will be part of June's PlayStation Plus lineup. We'll need to wait until later in the week for the rest of the selection. Original Story: There's a rumour going around right...
News Spider-Man 2 PS5 Leak Exposed As Fake As Media Is Fooled
Spider-sense should have been tingling
We’re regularly criticised for exposing rumours here at Push Square, but we try to bust as much fake news as possible because people actually believe some of these stories. Case in point: the web went wild for a Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 "leak" this weekend, which was authored by a random Reddit poster. That...
News Remember That PS5 Spider-Man Tech Demo? That Was Running on an Early, Low-Speed Devkit
Marvelous
You can always rely on the users of Reddit to dig deep into their favourite topics. While we wait to get our first proper glimpse of PlayStation 5 gameplay, then, here’s a fascinating tidbit: the Marvel’s Spider-Man tech demo which emerged last year demonstrating the speed of Sony’s next-gen system was based upon an “early,
Random Marvel's Spider-Man Has An Eerie Message Which Rings Frighteningly True Right Now
Caught in a web
A quarter of the entire world is in lockdown, as coronavirus continues its unwelcome spread across the globe. It’s a frightening time, but back when Marvel’s Spider-Man released in 2018, the idea of a deadly virus was all largely make-believe. That’s what makes this billboard discovered in the release’s fictional New York...
New swing mechanics! Venom! Playable Miles!
There's a rumour causing a big old stink online right now, and we're not entirely sure why. A subreddit dedicated to video game leaks currently has a popular post all about Insomniac's inevitable PS5 sequel, Marvel's Spider-Man 2. It makes some specific points about the unannounced game, and everyone is...
Random Spider-Man PS4 Haunts Jared Leto in New Morbius Trailer
Thirty Seconds to Bars
Morbius is supposed to be the second entry in Sony's all-new cinematic universe after 2018's Venom outing, and the debut trailer for the film planned to release this summer dropped earlier today. That's cool and all, but did you spot the Marvel's Spider-Man easter egg hidden away in the footage? Exactly two minutes and four...
Rumour Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Is Coming to PS5 'Sooner Than You Think'
Spidey senses are tingling
Marvel's Spider-Man 2 is an inevitability. A nailed-on sequel to 2018's Marvel's Spider-Man, developer Insomniac Games is all but guaranteed to be working on the PlayStation 5-bound follow up as we sit here and type this. It's interesting, then, that Kinda Funny's Imran Khan apparently knows quite a bit about the supposed...
News Insomniac's Superb Marvel's Spider-Man Celebrates Its First Anniversary
A modern Marvel
It’s officially been a year since Insomniac Games released Marvel’s Spider-Man exclusively on the PlayStation 4, and the impact of the title has been so huge that we thought it was a moment worth celebrating. Sony, of course, recently capitalised on the success of the title by re-releasing it in Game of the Year form; if you...
News Marvel's Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition Officially Announced, Out Now on PS4
That was fast
And just like that, the previously leaked Marvel's Spider-Man: Game of the Year Edition is out now on PlayStation 4. The blockbuster PS4 exclusive will be a year old in about a week, and so the timing of this release seems just right. As you'd expect, the Game of the Year Edition includes both the base release and all downloadable...
News Spider-Man Movie Dispute Raises Video Game Concerns
Could Disney pull the plug on Insomniac canon?
Sony has purchased Insomniac Games, seemingly securing the future of the Marvel’s Spider-Man series. However, while this should be a time for celebration, fans are worried that an ongoing dispute between Sony Pictures and Disney could lead to complications for the video game franchise moving forwards...
News Marvel's Spider-Man Has Moved a Mind Boggling 13.2 Million Copies
Swing time
How successful was Marvel’s Spider-Man for Sony and Insomniac Games? Mind-bogglingly so. Tucked away in its acquisition press release, the platform holder has announced that the open world superhero title has sold an awe-inspiring 13.2 million copies. That’s a flabbergasting sum when you consider that the title has only released on...
News Spider-Man PS4 Is Most Likely Getting a Game of the Year Edition
4th Sept release date
What a great day it has been for Sony and Insomniac Games. The Japanese giant has announced that it has acquired the web-slinging studio, Marvel's Spider-Man has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide, and now it looks like the game in question is receiving a Game of the Year edition. Listed on Amazon UK
Random Brilliant Spider-Man PS4 Glitch Sees the Hero Get Caught in His Own Web
Catching bugs
Marvel's Spider-Man is a wonderfully made PlayStation 4 exclusive, and fun as heck too, but open world games tend to have a couple of bugs here and there. Some of them are frustrating, but some of them are hilarious. While Insomniac Games has squashed the vast majority of issues in the superhero sandbox, some odd glitches will still...
News PS4 Exclusive Marvel's Spider-Man Is the Best-Selling Superhero Game Ever
In the United States, anyway
Just how well did PlayStation 4 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man sell? Staggeringly well, if we’re honest. While it was previously recognised by United States-based sales tracking firm NPD as the fastest selling superhero game ever, it’s since become the best-selling game in its category – period. That means it’s...
News Spider-Man PS4 Gets Two New Suits from Spider-Man: Far From Home Movie
More free outfits incoming
Update: The patch, version 1.16, should be live right now for everyone. It's about 380MB, and adds the two below suits into the game for free. It doesn't look like the update makes any other changes. Original Story: Insomniac Games has gone above and beyond when it comes to adding in new costumes for the web head in...
Random Spider-Man's PS4 Design Depicted on Comic-Con Exclusive LEGO Minifigure
Advanced suit Spidey hits the bricks
We know not everyone is a fan of the hero's costume in Marvel's Spider-Man on PlayStation 4, but we think the Advanced suit looks great. That big white spider design looks fantastic, and has quickly become pretty iconic. Marvel clearly approves, as it's featured Insomniac's version of the web head and his new...
News Another Spider-Man PSVR Experience Releases This Week to Coincide with Far From Home
Get ahead of the cinemas
Spider-Man: Far From Home doesn’t hit cinemas until the very beginning of July, but a new PSVR experience coming later this week will give you the chance to don the Spidey suit early. The release sounds a lot like the experience that released alongside Spider-Man Homecoming - a short but sweet swing across Queens as Peter...
E3 2019 Is Marvel's Spider-Man Connected to Marvel's Avengers?
"We're all Marvel"
Eagle-eared Marvel fans noticed that Crystal Dynamics’ new game Marvel’s Avengers takes place on the West Coast, something that New York’s favourite web-slinger alluded to in PlayStation 4 exclusive Marvel’s Spider-Man. But was it just a happy coincidence or are the two titles connected in some way? Studio head Scot Amos...
Rumour Subtle Easter Egg Suggests Marvel's Avengers and Spider-Man PS4 Are Connected
But they probably aren't
It's a question that's been thrown around for a while, but after the full unveiling of Marvel's Avengers, there's obviously some renewed interest. Is Insomniac's PlayStation 4 exclusive Marvel's Spider-Man connected to Crystal Dynamics' newly revealed superhero title? Common sense says no, but
Random Spider-Man Replaces Mary Jane in This Spectacular PS4 Glitch
Spider-Woman
Reddit plays host to some amusing clips about bugs in various games, but this one might just take the biscuit. Posting on the PlayStation 4 subreddit, someone uploaded a friend's video of a bizarre error that occurred while they played Marvel's Spider-Man. The result is pretty amusing. The video shows an early scene in the game when yo
News Spider-Man Uses Your PS4's Internal Clock for a Nifty Easter Egg
How about Shabbat
Ever spotted the Jewish NPCs out-and-about while swinging through New York City in Marvel’s Spider-Man? Well, one thing’s for sure, you won’t have seen them anywhere on Saturday, as the exclusive uses your PlayStation 4’s internal clock to give the characters their day of rest during Shabbat. The tidbit was confirmed by...
News PlayStation Goes Hard on Captain Marvel Advertising
Sony's own infinity stones
If you're making the trip to a local cinema over the weekend for Captain Marvel, you may be in for more of a PlayStation 4-based feast than you were originally expecting. Marvel's first female-lead superhero film features multiple trailers for already released and upcoming PS4 games in the ad roll that plays prior to the...
News Spider-Man PS4 Platinum Trophy Achievers Rewarded with Free Avatar
Got 'em, Tiger
Did you get the Platinum Trophy in Marvel’s Spider-Man at all? If so, then you may want to check your inbox for a free avatar, as Sony’s seemingly sending out complimentary profile pictures to anyone who obtained 100 per cent in Insomniac Games’ open world superhero smash hit. It’s unclear which regions are being rewarded with...
News Spider-Man PS4 Update 1.14 Adds Two Fantastic Four Suits for Free
Available now
Remember a while back when Marvel heavily hinted at some Fantastic Four related content coming to Marvel's Spider-Man? Well, the popular PS4 exclusive has just received an update, taking it to version 1.14. The patch, which weighs in at about 230MB, seems to be the promised Fantastic Four update, adding two new Spidey suits to the game...
News Spider-Man PS4 Sequel Speculation Begins
Creative director sharing story drafts
Bryan Intihar, the creative director on the wildly successful Marvel’s Spider-Man, has prompted speculation that Insomniac Games is about to get started on a sequel. Writing on Twitter this week, he posted a famous GIF, alongside the caption: “Few things are more nerve-wracking than sharing your first story...
News Something Fantastic Four Related Is Heading to Spider-Man PS4 'Real Soon'
What will it be?
Insomniac Games finished off Marvel's Spider-Man on a high, delivering the final chapter of its entertaining City That Never Sleeps DLC story and providing patient fans with the much requested Sam Raimi suit free of charge. However, the new content for the 9 million-selling blockbuster doesn't end there. It app
News Spider-Man PS4 Has Sold More Than 9 Million Copies Worldwide, Says Sony
Pizza time?
We've been tracking the commercial success of Marvel's Spider-Man since its September launch, and as expected, it's been a sales juggernaut. In addition to becoming one of PS4's most beloved exclusives, the game has been performing extremely well at retail, whether that's via brick and mortar shops or the PlayStation Store. It toppled...
News Spider-Man PS4 Was the UK's Best Selling Exclusive in 2018
Games market massively boosted by digital
If you were ever curious about how important digital game sales have become, the UK is a good indicator. Of the £3.864 billion generated in 2018, about 80 per cent can be attributed to digital. GamesIndustry's latest report on the UK games market really highlights the rise of digital; it's up 12.5 per cent...
Game of the Year 2018 #3 - Marvel's Spider-Man
Spectacular
A lot of things could've gone wrong with Marvel's Spider-Man. Such a beloved character brings with it a massive list of expectations from millions of fans, and while the superhero's video game career has had its moments, there have been several titles that have left players a little cold. When you consider the pressure on Insomniac Games...
News Final Marvel's Spider-Man DLC Gets New Trailer as it Swings onto PS4 Today
Just the facts
The third and final chapter in Marvel's Spider-Man's City That Never Sleeps DLC is out today. The add-on, called Silver Lining, introduces a few more missions, Spidey suits, and side activities, but it also concludes the story told across the three expansions. In the above trailer, you can get a taste of all that with another of J...
News Spider-Man PS4 Is the Fastest Selling Superhero Game in US History
Got 'em, Tiger
In its first three months on sale in the United States, Marvel’s Spider-Man has become the fastest-selling superhero game ever. This means that it has outpaced juggernauts like Batman: Arkham Knight, and even more impressive is that the statistic does not include bundle sales. Considering that the PlayStation 4 exclusive was a part...
