By A follow-up report on the massive hack of developer Insomniac Games is up at Bloomberg and has gone into the hard times for numerous current and former employees at the company.
For the staff, it is going to be a stressful holiday as there are obvious concerns about job security and identity theft following their personal information being disseminated by the leak.
There’s also the unsurprising reveal that some of the game development information in the leaked material is not accurate.
The leak pointed towards a multiplayer project set within the world of the “Marvel’s Spider-Man” games. Sources for the outlet say that’s no longer accurate and the multiplayer title was scrapped “a long time ago”.
The news comes as the game’s director Bryan Intihar appeared on the Game Makers Notebook podcast and says the team realised in the middle of development they weren’t going to hit the level of quality they were striving for in the second half of the game’s story.
This resulted in ‘heated’, but not argumentative, talk with producers at Sony to discuss achieving the things they wanted to achieve and ultimately they had to rework parts of the back half of the game to tell the story they wanted without worrying about ‘scope creep’.
One good bit of news, however, is that the company has no plans to cancel its upcoming “Wolverine” game, saying in a statement on Friday morning: “Like Logan, Insomniac is resilient… Marvel’s Wolverine continues as planned”.
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