After over two years of silence from Arkane Lyon and Bethesda, and rumours circulating that Marvel’s Blade could have been cancelled, the head of Bethesda, Todd Howard, has provided an update on the title.
Alarm bells started to ring when Marvel’s Blade was absent from the 2026 Xbox Games Showcase. Shortly after the event, Xbox announced that a wave of layoffs is on the way and some studios are set to be shut down, fuelling further uncertainty for Marvel’s Blade.
Raising the (wooden) stakes
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, celebrating the 25th anniversary of Xbox, Howard commented briefly on the development of Marvel’s Blade.
“I’m not at liberty to say when [we’ll see more],” Howard teases, “but I saw some stuff just yesterday [on May 21], and the folks at Arkane [Studios, the developers] are doing a really, really great job.”
Marvel’s Blade was first announced at The Game Awards in 2023 with a trailer, concept art, and a description, but no release date.
In Marvel’s Blade, you play as Eric Brooks, the legendary Daywalker, who is half-man, half-vampire. Marvel’s Blade gameplay will take players to a quarantined section of Paris at the heart of a supernatural emergency. In this single-player third-person experience, vampires are terrorising citizens, forcing them to stay indoors when the sun goes down.
Elsewhere at Bethesda, Howard referred to The Elder Scrolls VI as “our biggest project right now” at Bethesda. “That’s what the majority of the studio is on,” he adds. “We know we need to get it right, and it’s been a long time.”
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