Lots of people on GAF saying Activision lost the rights to Spiderman games, does anyone here know why they're saying this? The only official statement I can find says Activisions owns the rights to games based on "movie sequels and new television series." through 2017 http://investor.activision.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?releaseid=180674
I know that Activision had to pull multiple Spiderman games back in 2014, but from what I can find those Spiderman games are unique and 1 was partially based on comic-books, which Activision lost the rights to, but I can't find anything on them losing the rights to movie-based games and television series-based games. When they had to pull those games due to licensing issues they did not pull a game based on the movie The Amazing Spider-Man indicating that at that time they stilled owned at least the rights to games based on movies, and they even released a sequel in April 2014. Both games are also still available for purchase on PSN, XBL and Steam with Activision as publisher, if Activision lost the rights they would have been pulled.