However, it seems that its sales haven’t been too crazy either. Alinea Analytics’ Rhys Elliott estimates that 485,000 copies were sold on PS5 and PC in the first week, apparently resulting in $33 million in revenue. Unsurprisingly, 74 percent of copies sold were reportedly on PS5, while Steam contributed only 26 percent.

Interestingly, PlayStation may have other Marvel titles to thank for the response, as Elliott reports significant crossover with Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales and Spider-Man 2 (though Marvel Rivals also figured into the equation). Dragon Ball FighterZ, ArcSys’s best-selling fighting game to date, apparently had significant overlap, though fans of Street Fighter 6 and Mortal Kombat 1 also reportedly showed up.

Of course, the sentiment is that Tōkon could have reached one million sales if the PC version fared better. As such, the developer is committed to addressing issues and long-term support with new characters (with the first DLC character, Phoenix Cyclops, out in Fall), so we’ll see if it can pick up over time.

Stay tuned for more details and check out our review of the PC version. Aside from the high CPU utilisation and rollback issue, we found it to be a very fun, if initially daunting, fighter.

Of course, the biggest difference from Marvel’s Spider-Man is that this isn’t an open world. Logan may explore more open locations for secrets while conversing with other characters between missions, but the focus is on a linear action-adventure.

When asked why the team opted for this approach, senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed explained to GamesRadar, “We’re telling a Logan story. He’s so different from Spider-Man in so many different ways. One of the ways is that Logan is not somebody who stays in the same spot for a while. He’s not somebody who has a friendly neighborhood. He’s not settling down in one location. He’s a loner guy in a lot of ways.”

This approach also affected other aspects that the team is well-versed in, including traversal. As head of technology Mike Fitzgerald noted, “It took us a while to say ‘traversal is not an important part of Wolverine as a character. As we talk about those key things, it’s about his claws, his healing factor, his rage and anger, his past and dealing with that. These are some of the core things. The game doesn’t have to be everything and have everything. At the same time, you don’t want to be frustrating or slow.”

Which makes sense because anyone who’s seen the movies or read the comics can attest to Logan’s speed, especially when pouncing on enemies. However, it’s interesting to note all the other ways that they captured his traits.

“Some of it’s subtle, though, in fun ways,” Fitzgerald said. “Like, he can climb trees. I mean, he’s a wolverine with claws that you go up. But if you walk out on the branch, the branch bends, because he’s a very heavy guy. That’s a whole system we had to build […] But Spider-Man walks out on stuff and doesn’t affect those things at all. He’s very light and nimble. As soon as we put it so the branch was bending under the weight and the leaves were all moving the right way, it’s like, ‘Oh yeah, this feels like this character and not that other character,’ even because of that subtle bit.”

Marvel’s Wolverine launches on September 15th for PS5, and thus far, it’s looked mighty impressive. The fact that it’s running at 60 FPS on a base PS5 at launch, that too with ray tracing, in Performance Mode is a big reason, but Insomniac has also put in the work to improve its foliage tech. Head here for all the details (and why Logan’s suit magically regenerates alongside his wounds).

It’s essentially “set up to mimic a potential victim’s demographic messaging behavior while seeming completely legitimate to an anti-social (AS) user. This can entail mimicking the messaging behavior of minors and presenting that behavior where AS users look for it. The AS account establishes communication with the pseudo account.

“The AS account may be flagged as suspicious, and the system can wait for the AS user to make an initial move on a legitimate account and report it before any undesirable communication takes place. The pseudo account can be controlled by a large language model (LLM) such as a generative pre-trained transformer (GPTT).”

What constitutes “suspicious” activity? Spam, asking for personal information, inappropriate messages, cheating in-game, scams, and even attempting to contact a potential minor. Of course, it doesn’t move to ban them, nor does it punish regular interactions. Those who meet the above conditions, however, will be flagged, and anyone who interacts with them will see a warning.

It’s essentially a moderation system with the benefit that any hazardous accounts won’t know it’s a pseudo account. As far as AI use goes, this certainly ranks as useful. The real question is whether it’s actually put to use, given the number of patents that are registered and never materialize in a commercial sense. As always, time will tell, so stay tuned for more updates.

As far as popular decisions, it could certainly help PlayStation’s cause, especially after it decided to stop producing physical discs for new titles starting in January 2028. Despite acknowledging the significant backlash, CFO Lin Tao said the company would “cautiously move this forward.” Head here for more details.

In an interview with GamesRadar, the studio wanted to ensure that players who don’t like seeing blood, gore, and dismemberment in their games won’t have to. “Yes, we are making a Wolverine game. Yes, it is extremely bloody. But we also understand that not everybody has the same level of squeamishness when it comes to blood. So, we have settings where you can disable blood, disable gore, disable [dismemberment],” said creative director Marcus Smith.

Head of technology Mike Fitzgerald noted that offering the option of disabling gore was quite challenging, since there is “a very complex set of systems” at play in the game when it comes to displaying gore.

“The way it affects characters is one thing. The way it affects environments is another thing. The way it sprays out of the characters is another thing. A lot of cinematics have custom-authored blood that’s independent [to what] someone very carefully painted onto a character or object. Finding all those places, making them all relate into the accessibility system the right way, took quite a bit of work, effort, and testing.”

He went on to note that since people have “a real reaction to that stuff,” the team has ensured that edge cases are accounted for. “We don’t want to surprise anyone with it when they think they have it turned off.”

Senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed notes that, while “Wolverine is a brutal character,” his stories never glorify violence. Rather, the character always has nobler goals, even if that means his enemies must be cut down.

“That’s a part of the DNA of Wolverine. It is rated mature as far as topics, and as you mentioned, as far as violence, but Logan is not somebody who is ever glorifying violence. He’s not cutting up people for violence’s sake. He’s doing it because he got into some situation. He has to defend somebody who can’t defend themselves. He has to fight [against] injustice.”

Marvel’s Wolverine is being developed for PS5, and is slated for release on September 15th. Smith has previously spoken on a variety of subjects, including that it won’t be an origin story. “He does not remember how that happened, why it happened, and we are not really covering it because we’re not doing an origin story.”

Reiner-Reed has also confirmed that, while the whole game will be available on the disc for the physical release, the studio wants to encourage players to at least download the day-one patch.

If it’s any comfort, however, Marvel’s Wolverine will have a physical disc at launch. And thankfully, it isn’t cosmetic – project director Jess Reiner-Reed told Eurogamer that the game is fully playable.

“Marvel’s Wolverine will come out in digital and physical [versions], and the game will be fully playable on the disc when you purchase it.” That said, there will be a day-one patch, as is always the case for games nowadays, and you’re encouraged to download it.

“We want people or encourage people to download that day-one patch because we are right now working on – or we’re continuing over the next few months before release – to work on polish and some bug fixing.”

Head of technology Mike Fitzgerald chimed in to encourage the same. “I would say we’re perfectionists. We take every minute we can get to just tweak this little thing, make everything a little bit better – we’re gonna squeeze as much out of it as we can. And so if players download that patch, they get that little bit of extra time.”

Marvel’s Wolverine launches on September 15th for PS5, and thus far, it’s only looked better with each reveal. Rather than pursuing an origin story, Insomniac is focusing on a world without X-Men, where mutants are considered outsiders and typically ostracized. Logan is trying to find his way, anger management issues and all, and Bolivar Trask kidnapping them for his experiments doesn’t help.

Aside from the main story, players can also engage in Nightmare Doors, optional trials that delve into Wolverine’s mind, though the rewards for the same remain to be disclosed. If you’re keen on replaying in New Game Plus, there will be Adaptations that can seemingly increase the difficulty or unlock all kinds of ways to wreak further havoc. Stay tuned for more updates in the meantime.

“He does not remember how that happened, why it happened, and we are not really covering it because we’re not doing an origin story.”

The publication brought up the fact that the demos for Marvel’s Wolverine have included many scenes that have Logan interacting with various other characters, including Nathaniel Essex, and just about every interaction indicating that the characters already have history between them. How this will play out, however, remains to be seen.

Insomniac’s last Marvel-based superhero outings, Marvel’s Spider-Man and its sequels, also avoided telling yet another origin story for the webslinger. Rather, the narrative of the first game revolved around Peter Parker figuring out how he can balance his dual lives. Interestingly, his conversations with many of the villains, including Wilson Fisk, indicated that the two had clashed in the past.

The studio had also previously confirmed that there won’t be other playable characters in Marvel’s Wolverine. According to project director Jess Reiner-Reed and head of technology Mike Fitzgerald, the story will see Logan teaming up with many other characters.

“There’s definitely the team vibe in that sense,” explained Fitzgerald. “But we were really focusing on Wolverine as a playable character and making sure we nailed that.” This also means that the side characters that occasionally pop up to aid Logan will serve as important supplements to the protagonist’s combat capabilities.

The question was likely raised due to the presence of MJ as a playable character in Marvel’s Spider-Man. Her gameplay sections have gone on to be largely derided by fans, and when it came to some of the gameplay showcases, some took to Reddit to compare Jean Grey in Marvel’s Wolverine to Control protagonist Jesse Faden instead.

As for whether we’ll see hints at a larger Marvel universe in Marvel’s Wolverine, Smith had previously said that the studio wanted to focus its efforts on the main character, and that means that the X-Men won’t be showing up.

“The important thing, I guess, is the X-Men don’t exist in our game,” he said. “We wanted to focus on a Wolverine storyline and really build it from that character and build a world that is in a state where mutants aren’t well known. They are known; they’re falling victim to people who do know about them and want to destroy them.”

Smith went on to note that there will, however, be other Marvel characters, including Sabretooth and Jean Grey, as already confirmed by the trailers. Whether Spider-Man will show up or not is another matter altogether. Rather than having a full-fledged appearance, the game might feature “some Easter-eggy sort of overlap” with Marvel’s Spider-Man. However, “there is no crossover between Spider-Man and Wolverine”, said Smith.

Marvel’s Wolverine is being developed exclusively for PS5, and is slated for release on September 15th.

There was that welcome announcement about its performance on the base PS5, for starters, along with the reveal that New Game+ was baked into the release build. But an interview with IGN addresses a detail that has stuck out like a sore thumb for many players who’ve been eagle-eyed enough to spot it: Logan’s self-healing suit. We did find it odd but explained it away as a nanotechnology-based solution to a problem likely faced during his early days as Wolverine. However, Insomniac chose a more straightforward answer when asked about it.

“You can’t play through most of the game wearing just shredded rags on his body,” said head of technology Mike Fitzgerald. “So we find the right balance between clothing that reflects the gameplay you’re doing and this brutal combat and the realities of that, and then finding the right moments to have it restore itself so you get that right cinematic feel of Wolverine.”

Senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed added, “Early on, you would be playing through missions, and your clothes are shredded for way too long. You don’t feel as powerful as you’re playing through. So yeah, we definitely found that [the] balance was the right thing to say.”

That does allow for a bit of cinematic realism that could blend very well with Insomniac’s vision for the game’s visceral combat.

“We invested a lot in how damage is reflected on him in his suit, on enemies and their suits. And then as you attack them, the blood sprays coming off them are some really interesting fluid tech. So it’s not just pre-baked visual effects. These are actual blood particles coming out. They hit the ground and make the exact splatter mark they would make if they land on Logan. They leave blood there. If he walks through water, it washes off and leaves blood swirls in the water,” noted Fitzgerald.

With ray tracing working by default behind the scenes, and a dark and gritty take on the beloved character in the foreground, that self-healing suit is probably going to melt away into the back of your mind once you take on whatever Logan needs to when Marvel’s Wolverine launches on September 15th.

But you won’t see that in Marvel’s Wolverine. Senior project director Jess Reiner-Reed and head of technology Mike Fitzgerald confirmed to GamesRadar that “Wolverine is our only playable character.” That segment in the latest story trailer did not, in fact, show the player controlling Jean Grey, even if temporarily.

Instead, they’re relegated to helping Logan out during combat, especially in slick team-up attacks. “There’s definitely the team vibe in that sense,” said Fitzgerald. “But we were really focusing on Wolverine as a playable character and making sure we nailed that.”

And while some fans will doubtless like that, there is some pushback. In a Reddit thread about the same, one user said, “Comparing MJ playability to Jean Grey playability is insane.” Another likened her to Control’s Jesse Faden without a gun. “The blueprint is there.”

Of course, as others noted, it’s possible that designing and animating a separate playstyle for Jean would have tacked on extra development time, especially if she’s only in a short section. There would also be expectations for similar sections for Mystique and Sabertooth, which would further detract from the focus on Logan.

Regardless, he’s the only killer that you’ll control when Marvel’s Wolverine launches on September 15th for PS5. As for why the X-Men don’t exist, narrative director Walt Williams offered a good explanation here.

This MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls guide lists the inputs for all of Deadpool’s secret moves across all relevant platforms. All directional moves are assuming that your character is facing right.

Healing Agura

Down, Down, Down, Down, Down, Heavy Attack and Unique Attack

PlayStation 5: Down, Down, Down, Down, Down + Circle + R1

Fever Dream

Down, Down-Right, Right, Medium Attack and Heavy Attack

PlayStation 5: Down, Down-Right, Right + Triangle + Circle

Deadpool’s Super Skill uniquely forms the basis for the remaining three variant secret Commands:

Fever Dream: Ranbu

Down, Down-Right, Right, Heavy Attack and Light Attack

PlayStation 5: Down, Down-Right, Right + Circle + Square

Directional input followed by simultaneously pressing the two attack buttons for Ryuuko Ranbu, which is primarily from the Art of Fighting series.

Fever Dream: Phoenix

Down, Down-Left, Left, Down-Left, Right, Medium Attack and Heavy Attack

PlayStation 5: Down, Down-Left, Left, Down-Left, Right + Triangle + Circle

Directional input followed by pressing attack buttons simultaneously for Kim’s Hoyaku from the King of Fighters games.

Fever Dream: Raging

Light Attack, Light Attack, Right, Medium Attack, Heavy Attack

PlayStation 5: Square, Square, Right, Triangle, Circle

Sequential pressing this combo leads to an homage to Akuma’s Raging Demon from Street Fighter.

How To Unlock The Secret Achievement/Trophy ‘Deadpool Saves the Tōkon Universe’

Pulling off each of these poses and moves will make the five secret ones visible in the Command List. Despite the base Fever Dream move not being a secret, it apparently needs to be performed at least one time in order to properly register for completion of the achievement/trophy, so do so if you experience a failure to unlock it.

You will also need to actually view Deadpool’s Command List after unlocking the fifth and final move, before the confirmation will appear.

Those are all the secret Commands you can unlock for Deadpool in order to earn the related achievement/trophy in MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls.

This is a quick guide to unlocking the secret 21st playable character known as The Champion, in MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls.

How To Unlock The Champion Secret Character

Simply complete any single one of the Episodes, start to finish, in order to unlock The Champion. Despite the storylines being distinct, all paths eventually converge on a final confrontation with him.

The remaining storylines have some bearing on other unlocks including a color scheme and various achievements/trophies, in case you need some incentive to remain engaged with story mode as a whole.

While sitting through multiple chapters of even a single Episode may seem daunting, with all of their cutscenes and comics, you can simply skip the narrative devices in order to quicken the pace. It is entirely possible to speed through the entire process within less than an hour at most.

At the end you will first battle The Promoter, followed by multiple forms of The Champion himself with ever-escalating difficulty in power and moves. Defeating him will complete the unlock after the credits roll.

The Promoter cannot be unlocked as a playable character.

That is everything there is to know about unlocking the secret 21st playable character known as The Champion in MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls.