Rumor: Ubisoft Developing Blade Game for Marvel
Marvel is at the moment working with an rising variety of sport builders and publishers to create licensed initiatives. Between Insomniac’s Spider-Man, Square Enix’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and upcoming titles like Wolverine and Midnight Suns, the library of Marvel video games is one of the best it has been in a really very long time. Marvel is not displaying indicators of slowing down, both. There are rumors of a number of Marvel initiatives at Electronic Arts, and now a brand new rumor that Ubisoft may very well be engaged on a mission tied to Marvel’s upcoming Blade movie.
The Blade information stems from a number of Instagram posts from a Ubisoft movement seize session. The Instagram posts come from two totally different folks, actors Alex Martin and E Gaffney. Martin’s Instagram submit reveals him in a full movement seize go well with with a tag that includes Ubisoft’s emblem on it. He additionally provides an @ubisoft point out within the submit. Gaffney’s posts are the place it will get particularly fascinating. His first submit additionally mentions Ubisoft, in addition to “#ubisoftgames” which simply confirms it is a gaming mission. The second submit confirms it is a Marvel mission.
In E Gaffney’s second Instagram submit, he is proven holding a clapperboard. The clapperboard lists “Marvel” because the manufacturing. In different phrases, the clapperboard signifies that Ubisoft is engaged on a Marvel mission. There’s extra, although. The clapperboard additionally lists B. Tariq because the manufacturing’s director. Bassam Tariq is at the moment directing Marvel’s upcoming Blade movie.
The implication of the posts from each Martin and Gaffney is that Ubisoft is engaged on a licensed mission instantly tied to Marvel’s upcoming Blade movie. The reference to Blade’s director would tie it to the movie particularly and to not a generic Blade sport. That would make it extra akin to the Iron Man sport trilogy from 2008-2013 fairly than Marvel’s Spider-Man or Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. There’s actually a larger stigma related to film-related video games, however there isn’t any level in making assumptions a few sport that is but to even be confirmed.
If Ubisoft is engaged on a Blade sport based mostly on Marvel’s upcoming movie, an official announcement would seemingly be coming subsequent yr. The Blade movie is scheduled to launch in late 2023 and the online game would assumedly launch across the identical time. Hopefully, clarification is supplied concerning Ubisoft’s involvement with the Blade movie earlier than lengthy.