Blade will be Xbox's first exclusive Marvel game
As expected this week’s The Game Awards was packed full of reveals, music and of course, awards. Otherwise, why call it The Game Awards? Anyway, let’s get back on track.
One of the joys of watching shows like The Game Awards is surprise reveals, video games that many of us never saw coming like an RKO out of nowhere. One such announcement is Marvel’s Blade from Bethesda Softworks developer, Arkane Lyon.
Check out the Marvel’s Blade announcement trailer below!
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If there’s one Marvel character that epitomises being an anti-hero, it would be Eric Cross Brooks aka Blade. Dubbed by his enemies as “Daywalker”, Blade is a half-human/half-vampire who loves nothing more than to hunt down the creatures of the night and eradicate the evil of our world, often in brutal fashion.
Despite making his debut in 1973 as a side character in an issue of The Tomb of Dracula, Blade would later not only get his comic book series but also a movie trilogy with action star Wesley Snipes as the leading man. Though the less said about the third movie, the better. There is however a new Blade movie on the way starring the brilliant Mahershala Ali and it will be part of the MCU.
Marvel’s Blade is from the same studio that brought us both Dishonored games as well as Deathloop. This is great news, as long as we forget that its other vampiric game ever existed, Redfall. Where’s Agent J when we need him? Marvel’s Blade will be a mature, third-person single-player game based on the comics and not the movies.
Despite not seeing any gameplay for Marvel’s Blade, excitement for the title is understandably high. Unfortunately, with this being a Bethesda-published title, not everyone will be as excited. Now that Microsoft owns Bethesda, this means that Marvel’s Blade will not be coming to PlayStation 5. However, if you’re an Xbox gamer this will come as great news, because not only will Marvel’s Blade be the first exclusive Marvel game on the Xbox ecosystem, but it will also launch day one on Xbox Game Pass.
Marvel’s Blade doesn't have a release date at the time of writing, but we do know that it will be released for PC and Xbox Series X|S.