There is a team game planned after the Wolverine game by Insomniac Games
Leaked internal documents reveal that Marvel and Insomniac Games will stay together for at least the next ten years, with the Spider-Man developer taking on the X-Men in a new video game scheduled for 2030. A ransomware attack against the Sony-owned studio included the leak.
Although Insomniac had previously hinted at a stand-alone Wolverine game, which is allegedly scheduled for release in 2026, it seems that the company has bigger plans for Marvel’s mutants. The studio’s upcoming slate of licensed superhero games includes Marvel’s Venom (2025), Marvel’s Wolverine (2026), Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 (2028), and Marvel’s X-Men (2030), according to a leaked internal roadmap that is purportedly dated from July of this year.
Of course, those release schedules and dates could change in the wake of the studio’s disastrous data breach. However, it is possible that those titles—Marvel’sX-Menin particular—will be released during the PlayStation 6 generation. It would also make sense given Marvel Studios’ intentions to eventually adapt the X-Men for the big screen, possibly following the 2027 release of Disney’s Avengers: Secret Wars.
Other information from the hack indicates that Insomniac is devoting the majority of its personnel to Venom and Wolverine and won’t begin work on X-Men in earnest until mid-2025. Insomniac Games’s allegedly separate and now-outdated roadmap revealed several X-Men titles that would release through 2033.
An internal document outlining the terms of Insomniac’s X-Men license suggests that the company has negotiated a semi-exclusive deal with Marvel to use the X-Men in its games. Marvel is prohibited from releasing or announcing any X-Men games on consoles, PCs, or streaming services, or from using an X-Men character as a competitive in a game until the end of 2035, according to that document, which may also be out of date.
The X-Men license appears to have been effectively locked down by Insomniac, despite a carve-out that allows X-Men characters to appear in “multi-family Marvel games (e.g., Avengers, Guardians of the Galaxy)” and that Marvel “retains rights to children’s games and certain X-Men games from the 1990s.”
In addition to the four games it is developing with Marvel, Insomniac has two more games on its release schedule that are scheduled for release by 2032: a new Ratchet & Clank game and an unnamed new IP.