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Marvel's Wolverine · 2 days ago · 2 sources

Marvel's Wolverine sold an estimated 1.9 million copies in its first days, but Spider-Man 2 it is not

Marvel's Wolverine launched on September 15 and has already moved an estimated 1.9 million copies, generating around $130 million in revenue, according to Rhys Elliott, head of market analysis at Alinea Analytics. Sony has not issued an official sales figure yet, though the company has done so for other PlayStation Studios titles in the past. Of that estimated revenue, roughly 22.9% came from physical sales — notable given Sony's plan to stop producing PlayStation discs by 2028. Elliott says Wolverine is already the top-performing new PlayStation Studios PS5 release of 2026, ahead of MLB The Show, Bungie's Marathon, Housemarque's Saros, and Marvel Tōkon. It has also already surpassed the lifetime PS5 sales and revenue of Death Stranding 2. That said, it is tracking well behind Spider-Man 2, which sold more than 2.5 million copies in its first 24 hours alone — a record at the time, since overtaken by Helldivers 2. For comparison, Ghost of Yotei sold 3.3 million units in its first 32 days per Sony's official figures. On the critical side, Wolverine sits at a 77 Metascore, with IGN scoring it 6/10. Insomniac has already said it is working to "further refine the player experience" based on player feedback. One of the loudest pieces of that feedback concerns Logan's scent trail — a gameplay mechanic that players have dubbed "fart gas" — which has become a running joke online. Insomniac has since toned the effect down, and some players are calling for a full toggle to disable it. The mixed critical reception is a real factor in the game's commercial outlook. Elliott put it plainly: "Wolverine has sold well, but its commercial long tail is limited by its mixed media and streamer reception. Unlike Spider-Man, which reviewed insanely well and has stayed evergreen for years, this one's tail will be shorter and lumpier, but still there." He added: "Wolverine will keep selling, just not at Spider-Man heights. Spidey's been evergreen. Wolverine will be more ever-yellow." Elliott does see a few tailwinds ahead. The MCU's Avengers: Doomsday arrives in December and features the X-Men, which could push renewed interest in the game. GTA 6's November release is also expected to expand the PS5 install base, and Wolverine is likely to be a popular holiday gift pick. Whether those bumps are enough to close the gap with Sony's bigger hitters remains to be seen.

Grand Theft Auto VI · 12 hours ago

Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick pushes back hard on investor question about GTA 6 delays

At a shareholder meeting on September 17, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick got visibly prickly when an investor questioned whether the current m...

Control Resonant · 12 hours ago

Control Resonant's giant hammer gets built in real life — and it's too heavy to lift

The blacksmiths at Man at Arms built a real-life replica of the Aberrant hammer from Control Resonant ahead of the game's launch next week —...

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Pokémon Unite · 2 months ago

Pokémon Unite dropped from 2027 Pokémon World Championships lineup

Pokémon Unite has been officially cut from the 2027 Pokémon World Championships. The MOBA spin-off, which had been part of the competitive Worlds circuit, will no longer feature as an official event a...

Overwatch · 2 months ago · 2 sources

Blizzard stops expanding Stadium mode as it draws just 3% of Overwatch players

Blizzard is freezing Stadium's development — no new heroes, no new maps — after the MOBA-inspired build mode settled to just 3% of Overwatch's daily player base. Game director Aaron Keller broke the n...

Rayman Origins · 2 months ago

Rayman Origins Runs in 4K on PS5 via Backward Compatibility

Rayman Origins, Ubisoft's acclaimed 2011 platformer, is running in 4K on PS5 through backward compatibility — and it looks sharp. The PS5's backward compatibility system is upscaling the PS3/PS4 vers...

Doom · 2 months ago

Doom named one of the 25 most influential works of American culture by the Washington Post

The Washington Post has placed Doom — id Software's 1993 first-person shooter — on its list of the 25 most influential works of American culture, assembled to mark the 250th anniversary of the United...

The Odyssey · 2 months ago

The Odyssey adventure game from 2012 is the perfect preview for Nolan's film

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey opens this weekend, but with IMAX seats already sold out, one writer decided to preview the film by playing the 2012 mobile point-and-click adventure game of the same n...

Star Ocean: The Second Story R · 2 months ago · 3 sources

Star Ocean: The Second Story R Lands on Switch 2 at $49.99 — No Upgrades, No Save Transfer

Square Enix surprise-dropped a Nintendo Switch 2 version of Star Ocean: The Second Story R, the HD-2D sci-fi RPG that originally launched on Switch, PlayStation, and PC in 2023. No announcement, no wa...

2 months ago

Sony patent hints PS6 could ditch liquid metal cooling for good

A Sony patent filed in early 2026 and published in April describes a revised heat sink design that could show up in the PS6 — and it points toward ditching the liquid metal cooling system that caused...

Langrisser: Sea of Sword · 2 months ago · 2 sources

Langrisser: Sea of Sword gameplay trailer reveals dual-general system and destructible battlefields

BlackJack Studio has dropped the first gameplay trailer for Langrisser: Sea of Sword, giving the clearest look yet at how the next entry in the long-running tactical RPG series plays. The game is head...

Pokémon Snap · 2 months ago

Pokémon TCG 30th Anniversary Pre-Orders Are a Complete Disaster

The Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration set — marking the franchise's 30th anniversary — opened pre-orders today, and it went about as badly as you'd expect. Queue times hit six hours at peak, technical erro...

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