Microsoft has been extremely busy lately, taking a well-earned break from polluting the world with AI to eviscerate the videogame industry. The reports of potential layoffs and closures—coupled with the short-sighted strategies of other publishers, including main rival Sony—are devastating. And the bad news just keeps coming.
According to The Verge, Arkane's Blade is now on the chopping block as well. This wasn't entirely unexpected, granted. While Arkane's games tend to be critically acclaimed, immersive sims continue to be a hard sell. Dishonored 2 and Prey didn't meet Bethesda's sales expectations, and Redfall was just a complete mess.
Now, a vampire-hunting dhampir stalking the streets of Paris sounds like a pretty good setup for an Arkane romp, but while Blade is highly anticipated, we've heard so little about it since the reveal that there have been concerns that development isn't going smoothly.
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