Bethesda Boss Todd Howard Saw Marvel's Blade in May, Says Arkane 'Doing a Really, Really Great Job'

Bethesda Game Studios caput Todd Howard has offered an update connected the long-in-development Marvel's Blade, which is based connected Marvel's vampire-slaying superhero.

During an interrogation with Entertainment Weekly, Howard said he'd precocious seen what the Deathloop squad astatine Arkane Lyon was cooking up but couldn't accidental erstwhile fans would get different update.

"I'm not astatine liberty to accidental erstwhile [we'll spot more]," Howard teased, "but I saw immoderate worldly conscionable yesterday [on May 21] and the folks astatine Arkane [Studios, the developers] are doing a really, truly large job."

It's not much, but aft years without factual updates amid troubled times astatine the Xbox company, it's bully to perceive thing astatine all. It's an particularly invited update considering rumors of a imaginable cancelation surfaced arsenic precocious arsenic this month.

Fans archetypal began to fearfulness the worst aft Blade was a no-show astatine the 2026 Xbox Games Showcase. As the days that followed the aboriginal June presumption saw reports informing of impending shutdowns for developers similar Ninja Theory, Double Fine, and Compulsion Games, Marvel fans feared Arkane and Blade could beryllium adjacent connected the chopping block.

There's nary denying that Microsoft's gaming endeavors are successful a play of uncertainty arsenic caller Xbox CEO Asha Sharma hits the reset button. IGN has asked Microsoft for remark connected the reported cuts, and connected Marvel's Blade specifically we've asked Marvel Games for comment. Neither has responded.

"In Marvel’s Blade, Eric Brooks is the legendary Daywalker, half-man, half-vampire torn betwixt the lukewarm nine of the surviving and the rushing powerfulness of the undead," an authoritative statement for Blade says. "From Bethesda and Arkane Lyon, Marvel’s Blade is simply a mature, single-player, third-person crippled acceptable successful the bosom of Paris, present successful improvement successful collaboration with Marvel Games."

Marvel's Blade was archetypal announced backmost successful December 2023 and presently has nary merchandise date. That means we'll person gone 3 years without different authoritative look astatine the task erstwhile The Game Awards rotation astir aboriginal this year.

While we hold to spot Blade unsheathe his sword and sharpen his fangs, you tin cheque retired 1 of the fewer reveals we've gotten since its announcement: immoderate conception art. You tin besides spot wherefore we called Blade Marvel's concealed limb backmost successful 2023.

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