Highlights
- Marvel's Wolverine's associate narrative director departs Insomniac for CD Projekt Red.
- CD Projekt Red is ramping up work on its current projects.
An associate narrative director for Marvel's Wolverine recently announced that she will be departing Insomniac Games for a new role at Witcher developer CD Projekt Red. Announced during the 2021 PlayStation Showcase, Marvel's Wolverine is set to be a grittier, more mature game than Insomniac's relatively lighter and mega-popular Spider-Man titles.
Three years later, though, not much has been said about Wolverine, at least officially. The enormous Insomniac data breach in December 2023 leaked huge chunks of sensitive information about Wolverine, such as its plot points, characters, licensing agreements, and voice cast, with even playable alpha builds of the game making their way to dataminers. Even after suffering the devastating leak, Insomniac affirmed in an official statement that development on Wolverine will continue as planned, and a proper reveal will happen when the studio is ready.
While fans patiently wait to see more of Wolverine in the future, it seems to have recently lost some major talent behind the scenes. In a new LinkedIn post, former Wolverine associate narrative director Mary Kenney announced that she recently left Insomniac for a senior writer position at CD Projekt Red, which is currently developing the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 (codenamed Project Orion) and the next entry in the Witcher series. Kenney lent her talents to Insomniac for over five years, during which she also worked on Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart.
Wolverine's Narrative Lead and Art Director Are No Longer at Insomniac
A few months prior to Kenney's departure, the art director for Wolverine, Aaron Habibipour, also exited Insomniac to work for CD Projekt Red. Kenney didn't specify which project she's working on at the Polish RPG studio, but Habibipour did confirm that he's part of the Project Orion team. Although the departures may seem alarming to fans, it should help to know that the Insomniac title has been in the works for a long time, and the leaks likely prove that Wolverine's narrative and art direction are set in stone by now. Therefore, Kenney's and Habibipour's departures don't seem to hint at any internal turmoil or development challenges.
Meanwhile, progress for CD Projekt Red's games appears to have ramped up, as the studio wrapped up development on Cyberpunk 2077 some time back to fully focus on its future projects. Wolverine is much further along its development cycle, but neither Insomniac nor Sony have confirmed an official release window at the time of writing. If Insomniac's track record is anything to go by, though, fans shouldn't have anything to be worried about.
Franchise Marvel System PlayStation Platform(s) PS5 Developer(s) Insomniac Games Publisher(s) Sony
