Marvel’s Wolverine launches on PlayStation 5 on 15 September — and for a game that has had a difficult road to release, its final weeks have now brought one more unwelcome chapter. Clips of the completed game, including boss fights, unlockable content, and the final minutes of the story, have begun circulating on social media. If you are planning to go in unspoiled, the next week is going to require some deliberate avoidance.
Kotaku confirmed that the final minutes and credits roll of the game have been leaked in full. The source of the footage remains unknown — retail copies breaking street date, promotional copies, or digitally pilfered content are all possibilities. What is clear is that full playthroughs entered circulation, with at least one streamer openly broadcasting the game across multiple platforms before Sony’s legal team issued DMCA takedown notices and removed the content.
The leak covers more than the ending. Boss fights and unlockable content have also surfaced, meaning that for players who care about going into the game with fresh eyes, effectively any unguarded corner of social media is now a spoiler risk. Avoiding it entirely until 15 September will require genuine effort.
A Game That Has Been Leaking Since 2023
Marvel’s Wolverine has the distinction of being one of the most pre-leaked games in PlayStation history. In December 2023, the ransomware collective Rhysida hacked Insomniac Games and published an enormous volume of internal material: employee data, model dumps, production slates, and development assets for multiple in-progress games — including Wolverine. Gameplay slices, concept art, character details, and the unintended reveal of the game’s voice cast were among the materials made public.
Sony responded with DMCA takedown notices at the time, and Insomniac continued development. The 2023 hack was one of the most damaging data breaches in gaming history — not just for Wolverine, but for every project Insomniac had in development, with future game announcements, employee personal data, and years of internal communications all published by Rhysida.
In the months that followed, Insomniac staff were publicly frustrated at the way social media amplified worst-faith reactions to the leaked material — scrutinising character models, debating design choices, and generating hostility that the studio had to absorb while continuing to build the game they had promised players.
What Kind of Game Wolverine Is
The leaked footage, for those who’ve been following the discourse, confirms some of what had been expected from Insomniac’s approach. Unlike the studio’s Spider-Man games, Marvel’s Wolverine is a linear level-by-level action game rather than an open-world sandbox. Logan shreds through Reavers, Sentinels and members of the Hand across a structured campaign, joined by familiar characters including Jean Grey, Sabretooth, Mystique, and Lady Deathstrike.
Insomniac staff have repeatedly had to push back on criticism of that design choice, pointing out that a focused action game is not a lesser product than an open-world one. Kotaku’s piece draws the comparison to X-Men Origins: Wolverine from 2009 — still considered by many the best game to focus on the character — which used the same linear formula.
“It does not currently appear to be attached to any blackmail scheme like the 2023 leak, or the recent surreal Grand Theft Auto VI Cyberleek episode.” — Kotaku
The Leak Arrives at a Tense Moment
The timing is particularly rough. Wolverine has faced an online campaign that Insomniac staff themselves have described as “abnormally rough” — driven partly by social media reward structures that amplify negative reactions, and partly by controversy around PlayStation’s parent company that attached itself to the game without being about the game’s quality at all. A new trailer drew thousands of comments focused on PlayStation disc drive policy rather than anything in the trailer itself.
The game is, in any case, nearly finished. Insomniac’s Wolverine has been in development for several years and has already gone gold. The team that built it has navigated a hack, a sustained social media campaign, and now a pre-launch leak. What happens on 15 September will be determined by the game itself — and whether players decide the noise around it was worth engaging with at all.
The latest leak is not connected to any extortion or ransom demand, which is a different scenario from the 2023 Rhysida hack. It is, however, the last thing Insomniac’s team needs heading into launch week. Marvel’s Wolverine releases 15 September 2026, exclusively on PlayStation 5.
