Despite what you might need not too long ago heard, Ubisoft itself has squashed any rumours that it is engaged on a Blade recreation.

The preliminary hearsay that Ubisoft was creating a recreation primarily based on the Marvel character Blade was as a result of Instagram posts from July exhibiting motion-capture actors in Ubisoft-branded fits. Not solely that, however one of many photographs exhibits 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. However, 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 recreation.

“Sorry to slice up the rumours, we’re not making a Blade recreation,” wrote the official Ubisoft Twitter account. “We cannot wait to see what our associates at Marvel Studios are cooking up for subsequent 12 months’s film!”

Typically, most studios will not trouble responding to rumours, notably if there is no accuracy to them, however clearly Ubisoft felt prefer it wanted to on this event.

To be truthful to those who thought a Blade recreation may very well be on the way in which, each of the actors featured are online game mo-cap actors. One of the actors, Alex Martin, has even beforehand labored with Ubisoft on a trailer for Beyond Good & Evil 2, as famous by Eurogamer, so the hypothesis wasn’t totally unwarranted.

The clapperboard may have been only a little bit of enjoyable the actors had been having, however there is no stable manner of realizing except 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 venture they had 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 recreation, however a Blade recreation is only a pipe dream for now.