If you were waiting for Insomniac to officially announce Marvel's Spider-Man 3, well, someone beat them to it. Just not intentionally.
Ben Jordan, the actor behind Peter Parker's face in Insomniac's Spider-Man series, posted a photo to his Instagram showing himself in a facial capture suit, striking the classic web-shooting pose in what appears to be a motion capture studio. He deleted it quickly. Not quickly enough.
The post was spotted and archived by Reddit user Spider-Man222 in the r/SpidermanPS4 community, where it spread fast enough to reach major outlets including Push Square and Kotaku before Jordan could do much about it.
The photo that said everything without saying anything
Here's the thing: the image itself doesn't include any logos, titles, or on-screen text confirming a specific project. But the context does most of the work. Jordan's only acting credit is playing Peter Parker's face in Insomniac's Marvel games. He's not a general hire who bounces between projects. He is, specifically, the face of Spider-Man.
So when he shows up in a mo-cap suit doing a Spidey pose, the list of plausible explanations gets very short very fast.
Could this be for Wolverine instead?
The one alternative theory floating around is that Jordan might be capturing a Spider-Man cameo for Marvel's Wolverine, Insomniac's next big release due out in September. That game is confirmed to feature characters like Mystique and Omega Red, so the wider Marvel universe isn't completely off the table.
The problem with that theory: facial mo-cap work happening five months before a game ships is pretty late in the production pipeline for what would be a supporting cameo. That kind of capture typically wraps much earlier. Timing alone makes the Wolverine cameo explanation a stretch.
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Marvel's Wolverine is currently Insomniac's publicly confirmed project, scheduled for release in September. Sony and Marvel have made no official statement about Spider-Man 3.
Why Insomniac was probably hoping to keep this quiet
The timing here matters. Insomniac and Sony are in the final push for Wolverine, and the last thing the marketing team needs is the conversation shifting to a game that hasn't been announced yet. Keeping the spotlight on Wolverine through its September launch makes obvious sense.
The key here is that nobody is surprised Spider-Man 3 exists. The first game launched in 2018, the second in 2023, and the series has been one of PlayStation's strongest franchises. A third entry was always a matter of when, not if. What Jordan's post changed is that "when" now has an implied answer: soon enough that facial capture work is already underway.
What the timeline actually suggests
The gap between Marvel's Spider-Man and Marvel's Spider-Man 2 was five years. Apply that same window to the sequel and you're looking at a release no earlier than 2028. That raises its own question: does Marvel's Spider-Man 3 ship on PS5, PS6, or both? Sony's next console is expected sometime around 2027-2028, which puts the game squarely in the middle of a platform transition.
For players invested in the series, that's worth keeping in mind. A 2028 release window could mean the game launches as a cross-gen title, similar to how some PS4 games carried over to PS5 at launch.
For now, Insomniac isn't saying a word. Check out the latest gaming news for ongoing coverage as Wolverine approaches its September release, and keep an eye on any official PlayStation State of Play events where a Spider-Man 3 reveal would make a lot of sense once Wolverine is out the door. The latest reviews will have you covered when Wolverine finally lands too.
