Spider-Man 2's long-awaited New Game Plus mode launches in one month, alongside new suits and other "big requests"

Marvel's Spider-Man 2
(Image credit: Sony)

The long-anticipated Marvel's Spider-Man 2 New Game Plus update is finally set to launch on March 7, as developer Insomniac Games has now confirmed.

"Our next update is coming March 7," Insomniac writes on Twitter. "Our title update for Marvel's Spider-Man 2 arrives next month and adds highly requested features like New Game Plus, new suits, and more! Watch our social media for a complete list of features closer to release."

Insomniac has previously teased some of those new features, revealing back in December that the studio is working on "the ability to change the time of day, swap tendril colors, and replay missions," plus other unspecified additions. The New Game Plus update was originally teased for release in 2023, but those other features certainly help take a bit of sting out of the delay.

In today's announcement, Insomniac doesn't specify any of those features, but hopefully they'll all make it in for this patch. Community manager Aaron Jason Espinoza teases that this will have "some pretty cool stuff" and will be "addressing some big requests from the community," so clearly the studio expects fans to be pleased.

We also don't know what those "new suits" will entail, but fans are already offering plenty of hopes and speculation. There's also a lot of hope that this update might lead into some kind of DLC announcement, partially fuelled by information that came out from the hack Insomniac suffered last year. I wouldn't put too much stock in those leaks - if only because game development plans tend to change - but there's certainly a big ol' teaser for a story involving Carnage in Spider-Man 2 itself, so it'd be more surprising if the studio didn't take on that plot at some point.

Marvel's Wolverine is coming, and it's set to take place in the same universe as the Spider-Man games. 

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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.

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