A new claim from Miles Morales actor Nadji Jeter suggests that Insomniac Games was developing a standalone Venom game but may have scrapped it after Tony Todd’s death in 2024. However, conflicting reports from industry sources and timelines tied to GDC 2026 indicate the project may not be fully cancelled, leaving the fate of the Venom game uncertain.
A bombshell claim dropped on April 25, 2026, and the gaming internet has been arguing about it ever since.
Nadji Jeter, the actor who voices Miles Morales in Insomniac’s Spider-Man games, appeared on the Love It Film podcast and said something that nobody expected. He claimed that Insomniac had been building a full standalone Venom game, and that it got scrapped after Tony Todd died in 2024.
“Let me give y’all an exclusive,” Jeter said. “We were going to have a Venom game. We were going to drop a Venom game and a Venom DLC, but we lost Tony Todd.”
Todd voiced Venom in Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and for a lot of fans, he was the best part of the game. His deep, threatening voice gave the character a real menace that stuck with players long after the credits rolled.
What the Game Was Supposed to Be
According to Jeter, the Venom game would have expanded the brief Venom gameplay section from Spider-Man 2 into a complete standalone experience.
That lines up with what leakers and industry sources had been saying for months. A September 2025 report described the game as centering on Eddie Brock, with Carnage as the main villain and Anti-Venom also playing a role. The Venom in this game was said to be a completely different version from the one in Spider-Man 2, closer to the character’s comic book roots, right down to the short blonde hair and muscular build.
One source even claimed the game was further along than most people realized. Combat was done. Traversal was done. The story was locked. Tony Todd had even recorded his lines. The project was described as relatively small in scope, which, it turns out, may have worked against it.
The whole thing first came to light because of the 2023 ransomware attack on Insomniac, which leaked a huge amount of internal documents, including plans for a Venom spin-off.
Here’s Where It Gets Complicated
Within hours of Jeter’s comments spreading online, the story started falling apart at the edges.
Jason Schreier of Bloomberg, one of the most reliable reporters covering the games industry, went on the ResetEra forums and said Jeter’s account wasn’t accurate.
A separate claim made things even messier. A verified developer posted that the Venom project was still being discussed internally at GDC 2026, which ran from March 9 to 13 in San Francisco. Tony Todd passed away on November 6, 2024. If people were still talking about the game four months after his death and at a major industry conference over a year later, the timeline Jeter described simply doesn’t hold up.
That doesn’t mean Jeter was lying. He may have been told the project was dead and connected the dots to Todd’s passing himself, without knowing the full picture. Or things may have changed after GDC. Game development decisions shift constantly, and not everyone on a project gets the same information at the same time.
So Is the Game Dead or Not?
Honestly, nobody outside Insomniac really knows.
The pessimistic read: Insomniac has been under pressure ever since the ransomware breach. Multiple projects were reportedly affected. The Venom game was small enough that killing it quietly would not have been a shock.
The optimistic read: Multiple sources across different points in time kept describing a project that had real work behind it. You don’t finish combat systems, traversal mechanics, and voice recording on a game you never intend to ship. And if it was still on the table at GDC 2026, it might still be on the table now.
Insomniac Games and PlayStation have not made any official statement on any of this.
Why This Matters Beyond the Drama
Tony Todd deserved better than a footnote, and this story is a reminder of how much one actor can shape an entire project.
His Venom wasn’t just a voice performance. It was a character. He brought something irreplaceable to Spider-Man 2, and the idea that a full game could have existed around that performance, only to disappear, is genuinely frustrating to think about.
Whether Todd’s death was the reason, or just one factor among many, the game that fans wanted to play may never arrive. And that’s a loss worth talking about.
What do you think happened to the Venom game? Do you believe Jeter’s account, or does the GDC timeline change things for you? Drop your take in the comments below, and share this story with a friend who’s been waiting for Insomniac’s next Marvel project.
