WOLVERINE: Insomniac Confirms The Game Will Be Released As Planned After Breaking Silence On Hack

WOLVERINE: Insomniac Confirms The Game Will Be Released As Planned After Breaking Silence On Hack

Insomniac Games has finally broken its silence on the hack which took place earlier this week, and while Wolverine will be released as planned, it sounds like the company has been put through the wringer.

By JoshWilding - Dec 23, 2023 12:12 AM EST
Filed Under: Wolverine
Source: GameFragger.com

A few days ago, Insomniac Games suffered one of the biggest hacks in recent memory when a ransomware group stole and released a whopping 1.67 terabytes of data comprising over 1.3 million files. 

They did so after the Sony-owned studio refused to pay them $2 million and, as well as personal and financial data, details have also found their way online about Spider-Man 3, Venom, a Ratchet & Clank game and more. However, Wolverine took the brunt of it.

Concept art, gameplay footage, and the entire story were released, as was a playable PC build which could have quite easily led to the game being scrapped (those who have downloaded it are already being hit with DMCA requests through their ISPs). Now, though, Insomniac has confirmed Wolverine is still moving ahead as planned. 

Here's the statement which was released by the company (via GameFragger.com):

Thank you for the outpouring of compassion and unwavering support. It's deeply appreciated.

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. We have focused inwardly for the last several days to support each other.

We are aware that the stolen data includes personal information belonging to our employees, former employees, and independent contractors. It also includes early development details about Marvel's Wolverine for PlayStation 5. We continue working quickly to determine what data was impacted.

This experience has been extremely distressing for us.

We want everyone to enjoy the games we develop as intended and as our players deserve. However, like Logan...Insomniac is resilient. 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.

While we appreciate everyone's enthusiasm, we will share official information about Marvel's Wolverine when the time is right.

On behalf of everyone at Insomniac, thank you for your ongoing support during this challenging time.

Based on that leaked information, Wolverine won't arrive in stores until late 2026, so it's likely to be a very long time before we get to see anything official from the game. By that point, though, we have to believe this hack will be a distant memory for Insomniac and anyone who decided to take a deep dive into the leaked content.

However you look at it, the situation is unfortunate, and it comes just over a year after Rockstar suffered a hack which compromised the release of Grand Theft Auto VI (the teenager behind that has just been sentenced to life in a secure hospital). 

Stay tuned for updates as we have them.

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Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 12:23 AM
From the footage I saw I though it looked cool.

It being in the alpha stage of course it'll need a ton more work. Gameplay looked like a mix of GoW, Tomb Raider/Uncharted, with a touch of Spider-Man.

I liked what I saw and can't wait until the game is done.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 12/23/2023, 5:40 AM
@Mercwitham0uth - Totally agree. But I saw a little GTA in there too.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 6:43 AM
@JustAWaffle - Did Wolvie steal a car or punch a Madripoor hooker and steal her money?
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 12/23/2023, 7:49 AM
@Mercwitham0uth -
bl0odwerk
bl0odwerk - 12/23/2023, 12:34 AM
Why is everybody acting like they won't release it after it leaked? They supposed to be salty about it? Is that why?
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 12:48 AM
@bl0odwerk - People get into a panic frenzy when shit like this happens.
they think that spoiler concepts, and etc leaks it all has to be scrapped cause now people know a big amount of info on the plot and whatever. So it's either scrap what they have a rewrite/redo everything or whatever.

I don't think too much of the game has gotten out. But the worst thing it the employee and former employee ID's.
bl0odwerk
bl0odwerk - 12/23/2023, 3:20 AM
@Mercwitham0uth - Oh shit. I hadn't thought about the plot being leaked. All I saw was the video footage.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 4:33 AM
@bl0odwerk - Yeah a lot of info on the game was leaked.

Voice cast

Villains

Supporting characters

Plot details

Playable portions of the game.

Unfortunately the hackers put the game up to give away to anyone who wants what it contains.

Modders are already "patching" it.

It's not the complete game but more of an incomplete alpha build.
JustAWaffle
JustAWaffle - 12/23/2023, 5:41 AM
@Mercwitham0uth - I don’t understand why they’d scrap a thing. The leak only brought a bunch more hype for me.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 6:31 AM
@JustAWaffle - They're not scrapping it. It was just gaming fan in a mass panic thinking they'd scrap it because of the leak.

The footage I saw made me look forward to the finished product.
Superheromoviefan
Superheromoviefan - 12/23/2023, 12:35 AM
[frick] these leakers
Scarilian
Scarilian - 12/23/2023, 1:08 AM
Some of this was an internal leak, similar to how The Last Of Us 2 leaked. When people working on a project disagree with the companies vision they tend to leak aspects.

Personally, the story looked underwhelming/uninteresting. It's frustrating having the character narrate everything and there's a lot of linear segments in the 30 minutes of 'game-play'. The play itself just kinda looked repetitive, taking aspects of Venom and Spider-man and just transplanting them to Wolverine.

The 'slashing' dynamic could be interesting, but if enemies are tanky or just ignore it then it's not going to make it feel powerful. They need a system where the damage is visible on the enemy or impacts them in some way such as them recoiling from the attack. I'm worried about how they'll characterize Wolverine after how their missteps in Marvel's Spider-man 2.

I'm also concerned about the focus. It also seems perhaps too heavily focused on him being motivated by other characters such as finding the wife of his former female ally or trying to track his former female ally. It looks like the plot is dragging him around, sure he's looking into the mystery but enemies kinda just turn up at random points during his investigation.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 4:37 AM
@Scarilian - Dude. It's an alpha build. Still being worked on. 3 years from release. They have tons of time to go fine tune the gameplay and make it look much better.
MaximusTheMad
MaximusTheMad - 12/23/2023, 6:35 AM
@Mercwitham0uth -

Exactly. I'm not worried about the quality of this game at all. If you saw alpha/pre-alpha footage of Spider-Man PS4 you'd think it was a shitty mobile game.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 6:41 AM
@MaximusTheMad - Reminds me of when they released Marvel's Spider-Man footage at E3 years ago. One of the funniest complaints was the Kingpin construction site. I guess a year or two later, Insomniac released pics closer to the games release. They reduced the amount of puddles on the mission area and people cried about it. The whole thing was made fun of and was dubbed "puddlegate" over how ridiculous people are when nitpicking tiny details.

It's pretty much the process of making games they change things as it's being worked on.
Scarilian
Scarilian - 12/25/2023, 3:23 PM
@Mercwitham0uth -
It's an alpha build, sure, but they won't change things such as the plot or primary structure. This seems, if anything, like they intentionally put effort into completing a segment to demonstrate what they want to do with the game.

The finished game will likely be very similar to the segments we've seen in terms of plot/structure.
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/25/2023, 5:38 PM
@Scarilian - Yeah it's stuff they worked on just to demo at gaming conventions and most definitely a PlayStation showcase.
Matchesz
Matchesz - 12/23/2023, 1:30 AM
They managed to track down the GT6 hacker fairly quick its only a matter of time I suppose
PoolParty
PoolParty - 12/23/2023, 2:37 AM
The game comes out in 2026, I don’t wanna hear shit about it anymore for 2 years
TheManWithoutFear
TheManWithoutFear - 12/23/2023, 7:24 AM
Keep going Insomniac. Stoop, pick up tools and keep going. I'll be here waiting for the day 1 purchase.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/23/2023, 7:59 AM
Those hackers getting PUT UNDER THE JAIL after the way the GTA6 hacker was handled
FireandBlood
FireandBlood - 12/23/2023, 8:13 AM
@GhostDog - R* built different tho. Theyre about it 😂
GhostDog
GhostDog - 12/23/2023, 9:44 AM
@FireandBlood - life in a hospital prison is CRAZY
Mercwitham0uth
Mercwitham0uth - 12/23/2023, 2:23 PM
@GhostDog - R* sent their "chiropractors" to keep him confined in the hospital.

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