Insomniac leaks reveal an X-Men game and a future Marvel roadmap

Marvel and Insomniac Games will continue their relationship for at least the next decade, with the Spider-Man developer tackling the X-Men for a new video game slated for 2030, according to leaked internal documents. The leak was part of a ransomware attack on Sony's studio.

Insomniac had already teased a standalone Wolverine game, expected to release in 2026, but it seems to have big plans for Marvel's mutants. According to a leaked internal roadmap, which reportedly dates back to July this year, the studio's future lineup of licensed superhero games includes: Marvel's poison (2025), Marvel's Wolverine (2026), Marvel's Spider-Man 3 (2028), and Marvel's X Men (2030).

Of course, those release plans and dates could shift, especially in light of the studio's devastating data breach. But especially those games Marvel's X Men, would possibly be released within the period of the next generation PlayStation (i.e. PlayStation 6). It would also reasonably tie in with Marvel Studios' plans to finally bring the X-Men to the big screen some time after the release of Avengers: Secret Warswhich Disney currently has scheduled for 2027.

According to other details leaked as part of the hack, Insomniac is reassigning a majority of its staff Venom And Wolverineand will not seriously work on it X Men until mid-2025. What appears to be a separate, now outdated roadmap for Insomniac Games showed that there would be multiple X-Men games until 2033.

Insomniac appears to have entered into a semi-exclusive deal with Marvel to use the X-Men in its games, according to an internal document detailing X-Men licensing terms. That document, which may also be outdated, states that Marvel cannot release or announce any X-Men games on console, PC or streaming platforms, or use any X-Men character in competitive play, until the end of 2035.

There is an exception that X-Men characters can appear in “Marvel multi-family games (e.g. Avengers, Guardians of the universe)”, and that Marvel “retains the rights to children's games and certain X-Men games from the 1990s”, but the X-Men license appears to have been effectively blocked by Insomniac.

In addition to the four games it's making with Marvel, Insomniac's roadmap includes two other titles slated for release in 2032: a new Ratchet & Clank game and a new, unannounced IP.