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Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has generated more than $1.2 billion on PS5, while its Steam version brought Insomniac Games just $70 million, despite selling 2.3 million copies in 2026. According to Alinea Analytics, the game has generated a total of $1.3 billion in revenue across PS5 and Steam. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has sold 19.1 million copies....

Patch Notes is Polygon’s weekly newsletter, delivered on Fridays and posted on the site each Sunday. Subscribe to Patch Notes. Add Polygon.com as a preferred source on Google or follow Polygon on Google Discover. Why are video game remakes everywhere? The answer may be straightforward: original ideas are difficult to develop, while modern games demand...

Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy) will reprise his role as James Reece, a former Navy SEAL sniper, in a new chapter of The Terminal List, Variety reports. The project, titled Savage Son, is not a full third season but a spin-off of the Prime Video series, which premiered in 2022. It is based on...

Lords of the Fallen II will get a full physical release on disc for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. CI Games president Marek Tyminski confirmed the decision. Polish studio CI Games has made an effort in recent years to listen to its audience. Studio president Marek Tyminski is one of the strongest advocates of that...

Call of Duty: Warzone has arrived on Nintendo Switch 2. The free-to-play battle royale is available now on the eShop and does not require a purchase of Modern Warfare 4. Switch 2 owners can download the game from the eShop and jump into battle. Warzone is free to play, whether or not players own the...

Soviet and Russian actress Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina died last Friday, November 6, in her 89th year. Her daughter, Maria Shukshina, announced the news on Telegram. Heart failure was the cause of death. Fedoseyeva-Shukshina was born in Leningrad in 1938 and made her film debut in the 1955 movie Two Captains. In 1964, she met her future...

Bit Reactor, the studio behind Star Wars: Zero Company, is laying off employees again. The cuts come a month after some developers who had previously been placed on unpaid leave returned to work. Bit Reactor employees reported several layoffs on LinkedIn on Friday, November 6. Bespin Bulletin was the first to report the news. The...

Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden warned Sony that launching the PS6 and a new handheld console at the same time would be a major mistake. He said the company would struggle to support both devices fully. In an interview on the Trophy Room podcast, the former president of SIE Worldwide Studios recalled his experience working...

Nearly 80% of PS4 owners never played Ratchet & Clank, giving Sony a reason to reboot the series Former PlayStation executive Shawn Layden explained during a podcast why companies make remakes and revive older game series for new audiences. After the Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake found success with the press and players, Layden was...

Mike Flanagan knows how to make horror and serialized TV. His latest show brings together many of his strengths: his connection to Stephen King, his skill as an adapter, his eye for casting, and his ability to create emotional depth. One thing is missing, though: fear. Carrie came out in October of this year and...