Sony's Marvel bench might run deeper than any of us guessed. Per a report from PlayStation Lifestyle, that standalone Venom title that leaked a while back is still in active development, with a trusted insider offering a positive status update right as Marvel's Wolverine gets set to launch on PS5 this month.

The specifics are vague, which is how these insider drops always go. The game leaked, went quiet, and now someone with a decent track record says it hasn't been cancelled or shoved in a drawer. In 2026 that counts as real news. You've watched how many projects this generation got announced, sat in limbo for three years, then evaporated with a two-line statement dropped on a Friday afternoon.

Some context. Insomniac has spent the last several years turning Marvel properties into a load-bearing pillar of PlayStation's first-party lineup: Spider-Man, Miles Morales, Spider-Man 2, and now Wolverine. To be clear that's context, not attribution, nothing in the report establishes which studio has the Venom game and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. One secondary rumor mill claim has Insomniac juggling multiple Marvel projects, but that's unconfirmed, and I'd treat it as background noise until Sony says it out loud.

What I'd flag is the timing. Wolverine's launch is, in my book, the biggest PlayStation first-party release of the fall, and positive whispers about another Marvel project surfacing in the run-up to launch doesn't feel like an accident. Publishers love a halo effect. If Wolverine reviews well and sells through the roof, any formal Venom announcement lands on warmed-up soil. I'd argue Sony has run this playbook before, though that's my read and not a documented pattern.

There's a retro lesson here too. Licensed superhero games used to be lottery tickets. I grew up in the era where a Marvel game meant some rushed cartridge tie-in built in nine months to hit a movie window, and most of them were rough. X-Men on the Genesis was good, Spider-Man on PS1 was genuinely great, but for every one of those you ate five mediocre Fantastic Four carts. What PlayStation built over the last decade flipped that entirely: Marvel games are now events, treated with the same care as a mainline first-party title. A second exclusive in the pipeline just reinforces that this isn't a fluke, it's a strategy.

So keep expectations calibrated. This is an insider report about a leaked game, not a reveal, and insider reports have a shelf life measured in months. But between Wolverine's imminent launch and a Venom title apparently still alive, PlayStation's Marvel era is clearly just getting started. I'll be playing Wolverine on day one either way, dictionary of my childhood import days long since retired, and I'll let you know if the streak holds.