Short answer: Marvel’s Wolverine trailer confirms that Insomniac’s PS5 exclusive starts after Logan has already become Wolverine, places that story on Earth-1048, and builds the game around memory loss, feral combat, and Logan’s unresolved bond with Jean Grey.
At San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Insomniac Games used the Hall H Marvel’s Wolverine: Deep Cuts panel to show that story trailer and talk through the game’s September 24, 2026 release with creative director Marcus Smith, Wolverine director Mike Daly, narrative director Walt Williams, project director Jess Reiner-Reed, executive producer Eric Monacelli, plus voice actors Liam McIntyre and Krizia Bajos.
The show opened with the new trailer, which gives the game a clearer shape than the earlier combat-focused footage did. This is not just “big claws, big fights”; it is a mystery about who Logan was before the player takes control.
You can watch the story trailer here: Marvel’s Wolverine story trailer.
Earth-1048 ties Wolverine to Insomniac’s Spider-Man history
That Earth number is the trailer’s biggest franchise clue. Earth-1048 is already home to Insomniac’s Spider-Man games, which means Marvel’s Wolverine is sitting inside a connected PlayStation Marvel universe rather than a blank slate.
The catch is that the game has not confirmed a Spider-Man cameo. Daly’s explanation keeps the door open for crossovers while avoiding the easy promise of one. For now, Earth-1048 functions as continuity infrastructure, not a guaranteed crossover coupon.
Insomniac is leaning into a damaged Wolverine, not a clean origin
The story begins three years after Logan took the Wolverine mantle and worked with Team X, a special-ops unit assembled by Nathaniel Essex, better known in the comics as Mister Sinister. Logan has lost his memory, so the game’s central hook is less “how did he become Wolverine?” and more “what did Wolverine do before the player met him?”
That is a smart fit for a blockbuster game. Origin stories usually slow the momentum down with training montages and tragedy; this setup can open with claws already out while still giving writers room to investigate the character’s past.
Daly described the team’s version as “cynical, candid, and distant,” but also driven by a “big heart.” That is the important tension: Logan is not being rewritten as a soft-edged mentor, and he is not just a monster with a healing factor. He is a wounded soldier who still wants to care about people.
“Our Wolverine is cynical, he’s candid, he keeps people at a distance,” Mike Daly said. “Not just because he knows he’s dangerous, but also because he doesn’t want to get hurt again. He’s got a big heart and that gets him into trouble.”
The official prequel comic from Marvel, written by Walt Williams, tracks an early Team X mission involving Wolverine, Sabretooth, Mystique, and Sunfire. It is not required reading, but it shows how the game wants to define Logan before the opening credits: as someone shaped by violent missions, anti-mutant politics, and his first major Berserker Rage.
The X-Men are missing, but the mutants are not
Insomniac is keeping the X-Men out of the main cast for now. Mutants exist in secret, the team is not formed yet, and Jean Grey is operating alone while trying to find and help other mutants.
That matters because Wolverine fans often expect the X-Men to be the emotional center. Here, the center is Jean Grey, played by Krizia Bajos, who described her bond with Logan as a “cosmic connection.” If the trailer is accurate, their relationship will carry more story weight than a standard superhero side plot.
The cast still gives the game a familiar mutant shadow: Sabretooth, Mystique, Omega Red, and Bolivar Trask. Trask is one of the antagonists, and the prequel comic ties him to anti-mutant secrecy through the treatment of his wife and mutant daughter.
Why Insomniac is making this move now
Games have become a much bigger part of San Diego Comic-Con, and Marvel’s Wolverine is clearly being positioned as one of the show’s major gaming moments. That timing is not accidental: Insomniac has already proven it can turn Spider-Man into a blockbuster PlayStation identity, and now it is testing whether that same engine can support a darker, stranger corner of Marvel.
From a market standpoint, the move makes sense. Sony needs high-profile exclusive releases that are not just sequels to its best-known franchises, and Marvel gives Insomniac a character with instant recognition. Wolverine also gives the studio a different fantasy: less traversal spectacle, more brutal close-range action.
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