Marvel’s Venom Game From Insomniac Is Still in Development — Everything We Know

After months of cancellation rumors, mixed signals from actors, and a complete wall of silence from Sony and Insomniac, a reliable industry insider has stepped in to confirm what a lot of fans were hoping to hear: Marvel’s Venom is still in active development at Insomniac Games. The confirmation comes from NateTheHate — one of the most accurate PlayStation insiders in the business — and while it doesn’t come with a release window or announcement date, it does put to rest one of the more persistent cancellation stories in recent PlayStation memory. Here’s everything we know, including the full timeline of how we got here.

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What NateTheHate Actually Said

On September 4, 2026, NateTheHate2 responded to a question on X about the current status of the Venom game — specifically whether it might surface at The Game Awards in December or at a State of Play sometime next year. His answer was straightforward:

“Venom is very much still in development upon last check. As to when it’ll be announced, I don’t know.”

That’s it. No release window, no platform confirmation, no story details. But coming from NateTheHate — who has a track record of accurately calling unannounced PlayStation projects well ahead of their official reveals — “very much still in development” carries real weight. He’s not the only one saying it either. Separate confirmations from Telegram leaker NightGameCity and insider InYourEyes have independently corroborated that recent checks indicate the game is still alive. An Allfather Productions developer named LordHuffnPuff also posted on ResetEra that Marvel’s Venom was discussed at GDC 2026, suggesting active internal awareness of the project well into this year.

The Full Timeline: How We Got Here

December 2023 — The Insomniac Leak

This story starts with one of the most significant gaming data breaches in recent memory. In December 2023, ransomware group Rhysida hacked Insomniac Games and stole approximately 1.3 to 1.6 terabytes of internal data — concept art, build files, internal communications, and a detailed studio roadmap covering projects all the way through the early 2030s. When Insomniac refused to pay the ransom, Rhysida released the data publicly.

Buried in those files was a project roadmap that mapped out Insomniac’s entire upcoming slate. The leaked schedule, according to multiple outlets who reviewed the documents, showed:

• Marvel’s Venom — 2025
• Marvel’s Wolverine — 2026
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 — 2028
• New Ratchet and Clank — 2029
• Marvel’s X-Men — 2030

The leaked title for the Venom game, per those documents, was Venom: Lethal Protector — borrowing directly from the classic 1993 comic run that gave the character his most enduring nickname and solo identity. Project slides described it as continuing directly from the events of Spider-Man 2 and serving as a bridge leading into Spider-Man 3.

2025 — The Game Doesn’t Come Out

The leaked 2025 window passed without any official announcement or release. Insomniac said nothing, Sony said nothing, and the gaming community quietly shelved the assumption that the 2025 date would hold. Given that Wolverine was already confirmed for 2026, it made sense that development resources would be concentrated there, and that Venom’s timeline had likely shifted.

April 2026 — The Cancellation Scare

The most damaging blow to the Venom game’s reputation came in April 2026, when Nadji Jeter — the actor who plays Miles Morales in Insomniac’s Spider-Man series — said in an interview that a Venom spin-off had been in the works but was canceled following the death of Tony Todd. Todd had voiced Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and his passing in October 2024 was a genuine loss for the gaming community.

That statement spread rapidly through the Spider-Man fan community online. It was specific, it came from someone inside Insomniac’s extended cast, and it provided a plausible and emotionally resonant reason for a cancellation. For many fans, that was enough to consider the Venom game dead.

But within days, Jason Schreier of Bloomberg — whose reporting on PlayStation and Sony projects has consistently proven accurate — responded to Jeter’s claim in a ResetEra thread and disputed it. Schreier’s pushback was terse but meaningful: he cast doubt on the claim that the project had been canceled, and his credibility in this space made his response a significant counterweight to Jeter’s account.

Additionally, in the same month, an Allfather Productions developer posted on ResetEra that Marvel’s Venom had been discussed at GDC 2026 — which would be a strange topic for a canceled project. There was also a separate report from leaker REDACTEDSpider indicating that Insomniac had not yet finalized whether Venom would be a cross-gen release like Miles Morales or a PS6-exclusive title.

September 2026 — NateTheHate Clears It Up

With Marvel’s Wolverine releasing on September 15 and all of Sony’s marketing attention pointed squarely at that game, the timing of NateTheHate’s Venom confirmation makes sense from a coverage standpoint — it’s the kind of thing that surfaces right before Wolverine’s launch because the community is already paying close attention to Insomniac’s full slate. The confirmation doesn’t come with a date, but it does move the Venom game from “rumored and possibly dead” back to “confirmed in development by reliable sources.”

What We Know About the Game Itself

Insomniac has never officially acknowledged Marvel’s Venom, so everything here comes from leaked documents, insider reports, and context from Spider-Man 2. That said, the picture is reasonably detailed:

The Story — Eddie Brock, Not Harry Osborn

This is the element that has generated the most discussion. In Insomniac’s Spider-Man universe, the Venom symbiote bonded with Harry Osborn — not Eddie Brock, the character most traditionally associated with Venom in the comics. Harry’s version of Venom served as the main antagonist of Spider-Man 2.

However, multiple insider reports, including one from MP1st that surfaced last year, have indicated that the standalone Venom game will feature Eddie Brock as the symbiote’s host — bringing the game much closer to Venom’s classic comic identity. This would require the story to establish how Eddie acquires the symbiote in Insomniac’s continuity, which itself is a compelling narrative question given what happened to Harry in Spider-Man 2. The leaked title “Venom: Lethal Protector” also aligns with Eddie’s story rather than Harry’s — the Lethal Protector arc is specifically an Eddie Brock story.

Scope and Budget

The leaked project materials described Marvel’s Venom as having a noticeably smaller budget than Insomniac’s mainline Spider-Man entries. This positions it as a mid-tier release — bigger than a DLC but smaller than a full Spider-Man sequel. The closest comparable within Insomniac’s own catalog is Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales, which launched alongside the PS5 in 2020, ran around 15-20 hours for completionists, and was priced at $50 rather than $70. That game functioned as both a bridge title between Spider-Man 1 and Spider-Man 2 and as a PS5 showcase. Venom appears designed to fill a similar role in the gap between Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3.

Tony Todd and the Voice Casting Question

Tony Todd’s death in October 2024 is genuinely relevant here, and it’s worth acknowledging separately from the cancellation rumors it sparked. Todd’s Venom was a standout performance in Spider-Man 2 — a genuinely menacing, deep-voiced portrayal that the character had rarely received in other media. Recasting that role for a full standalone game is not a trivial decision, and it’s likely something Insomniac has been working through carefully in the time since. The game may recast Eddie Brock’s Venom with a new actor, or it may handle the transition in some other way. No casting has been reported.

When Could Marvel’s Venom Actually Come Out?

If the leaked Insomniac roadmap is still broadly accurate — with Spider-Man 3 targeting 2028 — then a 2027 release window for Venom is the most logical fit. It would mirror the Miles Morales model almost exactly: smaller game, released roughly two years before the next major sequel, serving as a narrative bridge and a way to keep Insomniac’s output consistent between mainline entries.

There’s also a platform question hanging over this. Push Square has speculated that Venom could be a cross-gen title on both PS5 and the PS6 — potentially even serving as a PS6 launch game, similar to how Miles Morales launched alongside the PS5. Sony’s next console is expected to arrive sometime in 2027 or 2028, which would make the timing plausible. REDACTEDSpider’s April report indicated Insomniac hadn’t yet finalized the platform approach, suggesting this question is still open internally.

An announcement at The Game Awards in December 2026 — right after Wolverine has launched and Insomniac can shift its public focus — would be a natural moment for Sony to pull the curtain back. A State of Play reveal in early 2027 is another obvious window. NateTheHate’s “I don’t know when it’ll be announced” suggests even his sources don’t have a firm date yet, which points to an announcement that probably hasn’t been internally scheduled at this stage.

What This Means for Insomniac’s Broader Slate

The leaked Insomniac roadmap through 2030 remains one of the most comprehensive looks at any major studio’s future plans that’s ever been made public. If it’s still broadly accurate:

• Marvel’s Wolverine — September 15, 2026 (confirmed and imminent)
• Marvel’s Venom — Likely 2027, unannounced but reportedly in development
• Marvel’s Spider-Man 3 — 2028 (leaked target)
• New Ratchet and Clank — 2029 (leaked target)
• Marvel’s X-Men — 2030 (leaked target)

That’s an extraordinarily packed slate for a single studio, and it’s worth noting that all of these dates have likely shifted at least somewhat since the original 2023 breach. Wolverine itself is the proof — it was on track per the leaked timeline, but the 2023 Rhysida attack reportedly set development back and added significant stress to the studio. The Venom game’s slip from 2025 to an unknown later date is a direct consequence of those disruptions.

For now, the important thing is that the game exists and is being made. The full picture of Insomniac’s Marvel universe — from Wolverine this month to an eventual X-Men game — is one of the most ambitious superhero gaming projects in history, and Venom sits at the center of it as the connective tissue between Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3. It was never going to be canceled quietly. It just needed time. And apparently, it’s getting it.