PS5 Spider-Man 3 screenshots featuring Silk leak online

The fact that there’ll eventually be a Spider-Man 3 game for PlayStation 5 seems pretty obvious, but the problem is that Spider-Man 2 cost over $300 million to make. Its massive budget is assumed to be one of the primary reasons that Sony is suddenly so obsessed with live service games and its number of new releases have slowed to a crawl in the last few years.

That doesn’t mean Sony won’t fund more such games in the future, just that they’re likely to be far less frequent and/or subject to lower budgets. Insomniac is known to be working on a new Wolverine game though, as rumours also suggest a spin-off starring Venom (likely similar in scope to the Miles Morales game).

A massive hack last year revealed that Insomniac is also planning games based on the X-Men and a new Ratchet & Clank, as well as the inevitable Spider-Man 3 for autumn 2028. And now the first screenshots have, sort-of, leaked online.

The hacked information suggested that Venom would be out in autumn 2025 and Wolverine in 2026, but the further forward you get in time the more subject to change these plans will inevitably be.

Nevertheless, the hack suggests that Spider-Man 3 is due in 2028 and may be split into two parts -either because it’s too big or to help compensate for the high budget.

The ending of Spider-Man 2 certainly made it very clear there was going to be another one, with a number of plot threads left dangling and a teaser featuring a new character called Cindy Moon, who in the comics becomes the superhero Silk.

Silk has similar powers to the current two Spider-Men (plus organic webshooters) and it seems obvious that Spider-Man 2 is setting her up as a new playable character, so it’s no surprise to find her turning up in new images from a prototype version of the game.

The prototype is extremely early, so the graphics are very basic, but assuming they’re real they show her web-swinging around what seems to be New York City’s Central Park.

We can’t show the images here for legal reasons but they’re easy enough to find online. Although it’s unclear why they’ve only emerged now and not at the same time as the other hacked information last winter.

It was a lot of data to sift through but that also means they could be fakes, given Silk’s presence is all but confirmed by the last game.

The hacked information about a 2028 release date for Spider-Man 3 does seem to be real, but the release of Venom will be the best indication of whether Insomniac has been forced to change its plans since the hack.