Marvel’s Blade gets a reassuring update: Todd Howard backs Arkane Lyon

Bethesda’s Todd Howard says Marvel’s Blade is still happening, and that Arkane Lyon is “doing a really, really good job” with it.

That’s a meaningful update because Marvel’s Blade has been quiet for a while. Since its reveal at The Game Awards 2023, it’s mostly disappeared from view. It also didn’t show up at a recent Xbox showcase, and after a stretch with so little news, people had started wondering if the game was in trouble, or worse, at risk of cancellation. Those concerns didn’t come out of nowhere either. Microsoft’s gaming division has had a rough run lately, including the closure of Arkane Austin.

Here’s what Bethesda and Arkane Lyon said back when Marvel’s Blade was announced at The Game Awards 2023: Arkane Lyon, the studio behind Dishonored 2 and Deathloop, and co-developer of the original Dishonored, is making a third-person, single-player action-adventure set in a quarantined part of Paris. On paper alone, that makes Marvel’s Blade a very interesting project.

Arkane Lyon has built its reputation on first-person immersive sims, smart level design, and combat systems that let players approach situations their own way. Even with that track record, there’s still a lot we haven’t seen. There’s no release window yet, no gameplay footage, and no real sense of how much of that Arkane design DNA will carry over to Marvel’s Blade.

So if you’ve been worried about Marvel’s Blade, this is at least encouraging. Still, a reassuring comment from Todd Howard only goes so far in AAA development, where projects can shift quickly, and in Marvel’s current games slate, which also includes Wolverine, Iron Man, and the Captain America/Black Panther game.

Marvel’s Blade is in development at Arkane Lyon for Bethesda and Xbox, but you can’t download it yet.

Author: Jesús Bosque

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