Marvel's Blade game "might be dead," according to an insider, amid Xbox Games Showcase

Things don't look good for Marvel's Blade. During a Giant Bomb live stream today, industry insider Jeff Grubb was asked about the game's status and responded simply: "The Blade game might be dead." He didn't elaborate or cite any sources. But given Grubb's track record, it's not something to brush past.

The comment is coming at a somewhat uncomfortable moment — the Xbox Games Showcase is airing today, and Blade was conspicuously absent from the lineup. It's a game that was announced nearly three years ago, and that's probably why that silence is becoming harder to justify.

Marvel's Blade was first revealed at The Game Awards in December 2023. It was being developed by Arkane Lyon — the French studio behind Dishonored and Deathloop. The premise looked to be pretty exciting: a mature, single-player, third-person action game set in a quarantined district of Paris, with Eric Brooks making his way through a city under vampire lockdown. It was a neat creative pivot for Arkane, which is a studio more synonymous with first-person immersive sims. Financial reports eventually confirmed the project only moved into full production in late 2024 — over a year after the announcement.

Since then, any updates regarding Marvel's Blade have been scarce. In December 2025, game director Dinga Bakaba posted that "the team is hard at work, everyone is super proud and outdoing themselves," asking fans to "please be patient." Even then, many fans considered it to be a mere holding statement rather than proper news. A 2027 release window was the last estimate, though some analysts were expecting an even later date.

The closure of Arkane Austin in May 2024 following the Redfall disaster had already cast a long shadow over the Lyon branch. Fans have been nervously watching every Xbox restructuring announcement since.

Please note that Grubb's comment is unverified and hedged — "might be" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. But he did add that an Iron Man game might still be in development, so there's that. The full livestream is embedded above, and you can jump to 1:16:00 for Grubb's statement.

Jeff Grubb: “The Blade game might be dead”
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