Back in 2022, a rumour began to make the rounds online that Ubisoft was making a game based on Marvel's day-walking vampire, Blade. That was not the case, Ubisoft confirmed, but that didn't mean no one was making a Blade game, just that Ubisoft wasn't making it. A year later, we learned that Arkane Lyon was working on Marvel's Blade, a third-person, single-player action-adventure game set in Paris.
It was an exciting announcement, and one of the highlights from the 2023 Game Awards reveals. A week later, Arkane Lyon followed the reveal up with a look at some stellar concept art for the game. Since then? A whole lot of nothing. We heard from studio director Dinga Bakaba when Arkane Austin was shut down, as he called it a "f**king gut punch," but nothing directly about Marvel's Blade.
Back in July, we learned from one of Arkane Lyon's financial reports that the game entered the production phase as of late 2024, which means that at the time of this writing, the Lyon team has spent approximately a full year executing on what it established during the conceptual and pre-production phase. In other words, the studio has only spent about a year actually putting the game together.
So we can't really be too surprised when studio director and co-creative director Dinga Bakaba tells a fan asking for some small morsel of an update on Marvel's Blade that the studio currently has nothing to share.
"The team is hard at work, everyone is super proud and out doing themselves. 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," Bakaba wrote in a reply to a user on X (formerly Twitter) who proclaimed his Christmas wish was to see some news about the upcoming Blade game.
So, for now, it seems the update on Marvel's Blade is that there's no update. Hopefully, that changes in 2026, but if our approximation of how long the studio has been in the production phase with the game is correct, then we'd be lucky to see even another teaser trailer before 2027. If Arkane Lyon takes what has seemingly become the standard 5-6 years for a triple-A game to be produced to get Marvel's Blade out the door, then we won't get our hands on it until 2028 at the earliest.
About the author: David has been writing about videogames, technology, and culture since 2020, with a focus on reporting daily news across multiple publications, including GameDaily.Biz, GameSkinny, and PlayStation Universe before joining Wccftech in 2025. David started contributing as Canada/US reporter for Wccftech's gaming section in 2025. Besides being up-to-date on the industry's movements, he loves interviewing developers, reviewing games, and writing intricate essays about the symbolism and layered meanings to be found in rich narratives as he's done for publications like GamesIndustry.Biz, LostInCult, and others. Outside of games he loves movies, music, theatre, his hometown, and his family, though not necessarily in that order.
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