Last year Actor Edwin Gaffney posted two images on Instagram which seemed to suggest Ubisoft were working on a game based on Marvel’s Blade. This turned out to be a joke with Ubisoft confirming they are not working on the game. In retrospect that’s actually quite odd, studios don’t really comment on that sort of rumour but now it’s clear why they did, Arkane are making a Blade game.
In Marvel’s Blade, Eric Brooks is the legendary Daywalker, half-man, half-vampire torn between the warm society of the living and the rushing power of the undead. From Bethesda and Arkane Lyon, the studio that brought you Dishonored and “DEATHLOOP”, Marvel’s Blade is a mature, single-player, third-person game set in the heart of Paris, now in development in collaboration with Marvel Games.
I probably don’t need to remined you that Arkane are part of Bethesda which is owned by Microsoft so there’s a good chance Blade will be Xbox exclusive. Disney are not adverse to exclusivity deals as the Spider-Man games have shown, but given Xbox is so far behind in terms of console sales this generation they might have pushed for a multi-platform deal.
There’s no release date for the game but it would be sensible to release it around the same time as the Marvel Blade movie and that’s currently set for November 2025. Given that that there’s no in-game footage in teh trailer it’s probably safe to say the title is very earlier in development.
Blade joins Black Panther, Black Panther (again) and Captain America, Wolverine, and Iron Man who all have upcoming games, and of course Sony’s smash hit Spider-Man series.
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