Regardless of what you may need not too long ago heard, Ubisoft itself has squashed any rumours that it is engaged on a Blade sport.
The preliminary hearsay that Ubisoft was growing a sport based mostly on the Marvel character Blade was as a result of Instagram posts from July displaying motion-capture actors in Ubisoft-branded fits. Not solely that, however one of many photographs reveals one of many actors holding a clapperboard that claims the manufacturing title 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. Nonetheless, in a transfer that’s fairly uncommon for a developer to do, Ubisoft truly 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 will not 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, significantly if there is no accuracy to them, however clearly Ubisoft felt prefer it wanted to on this event.
To be honest to those who thought a Blade sport might be on the way in which, 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 totally unwarranted.
The clapperboard might have been only a little bit of enjoyable the actors have been having, however there is no stable approach of figuring out until Ubisoft explains in additional element, or if one of many actors present an evidence as to what was happening, and if it even was a Ubisoft challenge they have been recording for.
Ubisoft is engaged on different Disney-owned initiatives, notably the not too long ago 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 will not wait to see what our buddies at @MarvelStudios are cooking up for subsequent 12 months’s film!
— Ubisoft (@Ubisoft) August 22, 2022
