Marvel's Blade game said to still be in development

Arkane Lyon and Bethesda Softworks unveiled Marvel's Blade at the 2023 The Game Awards. The project has been largely quiet since, and its absence from the recent Xbox Games Showcase prompted speculation it might be canceled. Bethesda head Todd Howard confirmed the game is still alive.

He said he's "not at liberty to say when [we'll see more]" but that he saw "some stuff" recently and that "the folks at Arkane are doing a really, really great job." A sparse update is not terribly surprising: Arkane may not have entered full production until late 2024, development timelines have grown this generation, and Marvel's Blade could still be years away.

Insomniac's Marvel's Wolverine, for example, was announced in September 2021 and is due in September 2026. Several other superhero projects have been canceled in recent years — EA's Black Panther, announced in 2023, was canceled in 2025, and Monolith's Wonder Woman, announced in 2021, was canceled and the studio shut down in 2025.

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