Kids who have ever fantasized about swinging through the city like Spider-Man now have a device that brings that dream one step closer to reality. HeroTech’s Magnus MKII Thread Shooter Watch is the result of years of tinkering and ambition, a practical timepiece with a thread-shooting mechanism that looks like it came straight out of a comic book.
Set for release tomorrow (Jan. 30), priced at $60 USD, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 PC port will let fans battle as Spider-Men, Peter Parker and Miles Morales, against a rogue’s gallery of iconic Marvel Super Villains, including Venom as well as Kraven the Hunter.
At $215,000 USD, the Marvel x Audemars Piguet The Royal Oak Concept Tourbillon Spider-Man watch arrives just in time for the theatrical premier of Across the Spider-Verse. Its 42mm titanium case surrounded by a black ceramic bezel and crown showcases a web-slinging 3D Spider-Man in the center.
Set for release during Fall 2023 is Insomniac Games’ Marvel Spider-Man 2, an action-adventure game played in a third-person perspective. This installment features two playable Spider-Heroes, and in this demo, Miles Morales is hot on Lizard’s tail in Harlem, which means speed is of the essence.
Spider-Man isn’t a fan of Doctor Octopus’ tentacles, especially in the ‘Spider-Man 2’ film, but inventor James Bruton most certainly is. He wanted to see if it was possible to build a better Doc Ock tentacle using joints made from Stewart platforms, or a type of parallel manipulator with six prismatic actuators.
Italian Extreme Modders transformed the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GamingPro GPU into a Spider-Man-themed design as part of Palit’s ‘Maker’ project, which is essentially an open-source database of 3D files for users to customize their graphics cards.
Some may prefer to have a Miles Morales PS5 console, while others find more joy in watching a small robot swing like Spider-Man. The latter includes Adam Beedle, who built such a Spider-Man-inspired robot capable of firing a grappling hook and swinging from it before releasing the cord.
Available for pre-order now in New Zealand and Australia, priced from $93 USD, the new Seagate Spider-Man FireCuda hard drives just might be the coolest-looking yet, but unfortunately, will not give your computer superpowers. This limited edition series features unique artwork of Spider-Man, Ghost-Spider (Gwen Stacy), and Miles Morales.
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered is a revamped version of the 2018 PlayStation 4 game, and there are a plethora of mods, with this latest one aimed at fans of Breaking Bad / Better Call Saul. It does this by transforming the web-slinger into Saul Goodman, a character played by actor Bob Odenkirk, who made his first appearance in season 2 of Breaking Bad.
Insomniac Games’ Spider-Man Remastered is headed to the PC this summer, and unlike the console versions, this one boasts adjustable render settings as well as ray-traced reflections, with more features to be announced later. Their PlayStation Studios partner studio Nixxes Software fully optimized Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered for PC right down to the very last detail.