Todd Howard has offered a small but reassuring update on Marvel's Blade, saying Arkane is doing a "really, really great job" on the long-quiet game.
The comment came in an Entertainment Weekly feature tied to Xbox's 25th anniversary. Asked when fans might see more of Marvel's Blade, Howard did not give a date, but said he had recently seen the project.
"I'm not at liberty to say when [we'll see more], but I saw some stuff just yesterday [on May 21] and the folks at Arkane [Studios, the developers] are doing a really, really great job."
That is not a gameplay reveal, a release window or a platform update. It is still the clearest recent signal from Bethesda leadership that Marvel's Blade remains active at Arkane Lyon after months of silence around the project.
Bethesda Softworks and Marvel Games announced Marvel's Blade at The Game Awards 2023 as a mature, single-player, third-person game from Arkane Lyon, the studio behind Deathloop and Dishonored. Marvel's announcement said the game would feature an original story and take players to a quarantined section of Paris during a supernatural emergency.
The update arrives during a tense stretch for Xbox's first-party studios. Marvel's Blade skipped the 2026 Xbox Games Showcase, and wider reports about Microsoft gaming restructuring have left some fans watching unreleased projects more nervously than usual. Howard's quote does not answer when Blade comes back, but it does push against the idea that the game has disappeared.
The same Entertainment Weekly feature also included fresh comments on another long-running Bethesda project, with Howard saying The Elder Scrolls 6 has to get it right. Together, the remarks show Bethesda is willing to acknowledge its quietest major games without turning either one into a full marketing beat yet.
Marvel's Blade still has no announced release date. Bethesda and Arkane have not shown gameplay since the original reveal, so the next real milestone will be the game's first proper reappearance rather than another status quote.