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Jay Ong describes Marvel’s return to blockbuster games with Spider-Man

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Marvel has been licensing a lot of games in the mobile and online space, and it has been cooking some good hits in partnership with Lego and TT Games. But Disney-owned Marvel surprised everyone with the announcement this week of a major console game based on its Spider-Man superhero.

One of the people behind that effort is Jay Ong, the vice president of games at Marvel. He joined a couple of years ago with the aim of bringing higher quality to Marvel’s efforts. The Spider-Man game is one of the fruits of that work. It is being developed by Insomniac Games, known for titles like Ratchet & Clank.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.