Marvel’s Blade Developer Surfaces, Requests Patience for ‘Special Game’
Progress is still steadily moving forward on at least one of Marvel’s Blade projects, according to the co-creative director behind Arkane Lyon’s upcoming Bethesda-published Blade video game.
Alright, let’s get this bit out of the way first: nobody knows what’s going on with the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Mahershala Ali-led Blade film at the moment.
Thankfully, however, it seems that Arkane Lyon and Bethesda’s Marvel’s Blade video game isn’t stuck in development hell, too, as some had previously assumed.
Marvel's Blade was announced way back in December 2023 at The Game Awards, alongside a striking red trailer that gave us our first look at protagonist Eric Brooks.
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Since then, that's all we've really heard about the project. A financial briefing released by Arkane Lyon earlier this year revealed that the game had entered full-scale production in late 2024, but that's the best I've got for you in terms of updates.
Well, actually, there has been a small development on the, um, development side of things, and it does sound relatively promising.
As spotted by PC Gamer's Andy Chalk, one user on Twitter asked Arkane Lyon for an update on Marvel’s Blade’s progress, and, surprisingly enough, studio and co-creative director Dinga Bakaba actually replied.
“The team is hard at work, everyone is super proud and out doing themselves,” Bakaba revealed on Twitter.
“Please be patient, it will be a special game and we all hope it will be meeting the high standards that we set for ourselves and for you all.”
Now, look, this isn’t exactly the juiciest piece of info or some kind of huge scoop, but it’s nice to know that the project is still moving ahead (especially after the disaster that has been the MCU’s Blade).
Plus, I'm biased, but I just think it's nice to hear that the folks at Arkane are still doing well.
These guys had an absolutely generational run from 2012 to 2021, as they pumped out back-to-back bangers like Dishonored, Dishonored 2, Prey and Deathloop.
Unfortunately, all it took was one (admittedly huge) mistake to tarnish their track record, as the disastrous, poorly-received release of Redfall back in 2023 resulted in Microsoft closing Arkane Austin and laying off 96 employees.
If you ask me, Redfall’s quality was more of a failure on Microsoft’s part than Arkane’s, as they seemed comfortable pushing a half-baked game out the door instead of, I dunno… delaying it and giving the devs more time to finish it? Crazy idea, I know.
Either way, I want to see Arkane bounce back, and I hope that they take as long as they need to make Marvel’s Blade perfect. We can wait. I mean, it’ll probably be out before the Blade film, regardless, so don’t feel like you have to rush…