Regardless of what you might need lately heard, Ubisoft itself has squashed any rumours that it is engaged on a Blade sport.
The preliminary hearsay that Ubisoft was creating a sport primarily based on the Marvel character Blade was on account of Instagram posts from July displaying motion-capture actors in Ubisoft-branded fits. Not solely that, however one of many pictures reveals one of many actors holding a clapperboard that claims the manufacturing identify is Marvel.
The flame of this hearsay was then reignited when YouTuber and Ubisoft leaker JorRaptor identified how the clapperboard additionally lists Bassam Tariq because the director, who’s directing Marvel’s 2023 Blade reboot. Nevertheless, in a transfer that’s fairly uncommon for a developer to do, Ubisoft really put out an announcement to say that, no, the studio is not engaged on a Blade sport.
“Sorry to slice up the rumours, we’re not making a Blade sport,” wrote the official Ubisoft Twitter account. “We won’t wait to see what our buddies at Marvel Studios are cooking up for subsequent 12 months’s film!”
Sometimes, most studios will not trouble responding to rumours, notably if there isn’t any accuracy to them, however clearly Ubisoft felt prefer it wanted to on this event.
To be honest to people who thought a Blade sport may very well be on the best way, each of the actors featured are online game mo-cap actors. One of many actors, Alex Martin, has even beforehand labored with Ubisoft on a trailer for Past Good & Evil 2, as famous by Eurogamer, so the hypothesis wasn’t completely unwarranted.
The clapperboard may have been only a little bit of enjoyable the actors have been having, however there isn’t any stable approach of realizing until Ubisoft explains in additional element, or if one of many actors present a proof as to what was happening, and if it even was a Ubisoft undertaking they have been recording for.
Ubisoft is engaged on different Disney-owned initiatives, notably the lately delayed Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, and an open-world Star Wars sport, however a Blade sport is only a pipe dream for now.
Sorry to slice up the rumors, we’re not making a Blade sport however we won’t wait to see what our buddies at @MarvelStudios are cooking up for subsequent 12 months’s film!
— Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) August 22, 2022