A week ago, cyber attackers announced that they had broken into Sony's game studio Insomniac Games and leaked terabytes of confidential information – except it's serious. Redemption of 50 Bitcoin ($2 million at the time) was paid in seven days.
The files went up for immediate auction last week, but only 2 percent of the leaked trove appears to have been sold, the report said. Cyber Daily. The remaining 98% of Insomniac's information was published, including files from the studio's Spider-Man 2 game, the three-game X-Men contract signed between Sony and Marvel in 2021, and personal employee documents such as I-9 forms and passport scans.
In the 2021 contract, Insomniac's upcoming Wolverine game was slated to launch before September 2025, with the second two games scheduled for release before December 2029 and December 2033. The Wolverine game is currently expected to release in 2026, however, according to leaked files. .
In the year According to the leaked July 2023 roadmap, the company's other planned games will be Venom, Spider-Man 3, a new Rat and Clank game, and an X-Men game.
The said Leakage Significant Wolverine leaks have begun trickling online, showing off the upcoming game's concept art, gameplay footage, animations, road maps, motion capture, and more. According to the leaked Wolverine roadmap, the game's alpha build will ship in late 2025, with a beta release in early 2026 before full production begins later that year.
Leaked Wolverine features gameplay footage from a third-person perspective and allows players to use Wolverine's claws to climb buildings, verbally sniff out clues, and witness events featuring X-Men characters like Mystique using the superhero's heightened senses.
According to the leak, the Venom game will be set in the timeline between Spider-Man 2 and 3 and will feature “carnage-stricken NYC boroughs,” an 8-10 hour gameplay experience with 12 missions and three boss fights, and playable Venom and Spidey. Characters.
Lex also revealed that Sony has a budget of $120 million for each game through Insomniac, and separately expects a net profit of $85 million from Wolverine, $75 million from Spider-Man 2, and $170 million from Spider-Man 3.
Additional hints suggest that Insonia will have some exceptions to X-Men games until 2035, as Marvel will not be able to use X-Men characters in games or launch X-Men games for PC, console or streaming, according to a document. Marvel holds certain gaming rights to the X-Men characters in games about the Marvel Universe, but Insomniac has exclusive rights to a standalone X-Men title for the next 11 years.
Rhysida, the hacker group responsible for the ransomware attack and subsequent leak, said. Cyber Daily That money was their only motivation and “developers who make games like this are easy targets”.
The hackers also claimed that it only took them 20-25 minutes to access Insomniac's data to breach Sony's system.
Sony did not respond. DecryptFeedback questions.
Edited by Andrew Hayward.
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