15-year-old Spider-Man game finally got an unofficial native PC port, then it vanished from GitHub

An unofficial native PC version of Spider-Man: Edge of Time surfaced only days ago, giving the 2011 console game something it had never officially received. Now, however, the project's original GitHub repository is no longer available.

The Spider-Man: Edge of Time PC Edition from developer GenryTheFox was released as an unofficial Windows edition using ReXGlue-based recompilation, with an installer, launcher, PC controls, localisation, local achievements, graphics fixes and high-frame-rate options. Contemporary reporting from September 12 documented the project and its GitHub release. The project's original GitHub URL now returns a 404 error.

The reason for the repository's disappearance has not been independently established. There is currently insufficient evidence to attribute it to a copyright complaint or to any action by Activision, Marvel, Sony or another rights holder.

The PC Edition was presented as a beta rather than an official commercial Windows release. With the original repository now unavailable, some of its more detailed technical claims can only be checked against contemporary reporting rather than the project's original documentation.

Released in 2011, Spider-Man: Edge of Time was developed by Beenox for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii and Nintendo 3DS, with the Nintendo DS version developed separately by Other Ocean. Activision's E3 2011 slate lists those platforms but no Windows version.

Activision's original announcement describes a story split between Peter Parker's Amazing Spider-Man and Miguel O'Hara's Spider-Man 2099, with events in one timeline affecting the other.

That made the appearance of an unofficial native Windows version notable after 15 years without an official PC release. Its original GitHub repository is now inaccessible, leaving the project's immediate availability uncertain.

Whether the repository will return or the project will reappear elsewhere remains unknown. What can currently be established is narrower: the PC Edition was publicly available following its September release, and its original GitHub location no longer resolves.