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How Insomniac Games is creating new lore for The Amazing Spider-Man game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Peter Parker has grown up. He’s 23 years old in The Amazing Spider-Man, being developed by Insomniac Games for the Sony PlayStation 4. That’s fresh territory for everybody’s favorite web-crawler, and that enables Insomniac to create new lore for its video game, said Bryan Intihar, the creative director on the game, in an interview with GamesBeat.

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Sony showed off an amazing demo of extended gameplay from the title, which won’t come out until 2018. Intihar walked us through the demo and said that Spider-Man has mass appeal because he’s a vulnerable character and that the game will show Parker’s struggles and his connection with the world of Spider-Man.

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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.