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REVEALED: Arkane | Vintage Vibes

One of the best games of all time is two bucks on Steam right now

The best stealth game ever created.

Destructoid

I picked out 31 must-play games going for $5 or less in the Steam Summer Sale

'Bout a hundo if you want them all.

PC Gamer

Amidst mounting fears of Xbox closures, Todd Howard says Arkane is 'doing a really, really good job' on Blade

Bethesda's boss confirmed Marvel's Blade is still in the works.

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Dishonored dev defends loading screens: 'I actually have a soft spot for all that'

And also brings up an Evil Dead severed-hand scene cut from the final game.

PC Gamer

"Let us cook.": Xbox's Blade may be alive after all as Arkane puts cancellation rumors to bed

Arkane Lyon has responded to growing concerns over Marvel's Blade after the game was absent from the Xbox Games Showcase. A message from the game's Lead Concept Artist suggests development is continuing despite cancellation rumors.

Windows Central

Marvel's Blade is not canceled, Arkane dev confirms after Summer Game Fest no-show and over 2 years of silence

The daywalker is still prowling

GamesRadar

'Marvel's Blade': Arkane Studios Shares Response on Game's Cancellation Rumors

Arkane Studios has finally spoken up about their development of "Marvel's Blade." Here's what the studio has to say.

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No, Blade is not cancelled, Arkane artist confirms

Let the words of Walter White give you comfort in these trying times.

PC Gamer

Summer Game Fest no-shows: The big games that were absent from 2026's showcases

Who's out for Summer? Who's out forever?

PC Gamer

Arkane devs say the studio almost made Thief 4 and a Blade Runner game before it made Dishonored — 'We were both so excited. Blade Runner and Thief, two of our favourite things of all time'

According to two former Arkane Studios developers, the studio almost made a Blade Runner game and Thief 4 before it made Dishonored.

TechRadar

Before Dishonored, Arkane was tapped to make Thief 4, and my heart weeps for what might have been: 'We had an amazing pitch for Thief'

A Blade Runner game was also a possibility, which would have been fine too, I guess.

PC Gamer

This indie action RPG looks like Minecraft but plays like Dark Messiah, letting you boot enemies off ledges and body slam them into walls of spikes

The Adventures of Sir Kicksalot is out now

PC Gamer

Revisiting Redfall after its final update reveals the ghost of the game it wanted to be

Arkane Austin's final game is still disappointing, but I'm now convinced that it could have been great.

PC Gamer

These are my 20 RPG freak pick must-plays for $10 or less in the Steam Spring Sale

Sicko central.

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Dark Messiah modders given 'blank check' from Ubisoft to develop toolkit are now releasing a Community Edition of Arkane's classic

Let the booting continue indefinitely.

PC Gamer

Blade director reassures suffering fans with soothing words: 'Please be patient, it will be a special game'

Dinga Bakaba dropped in on X to let everyone know that despite the extended silence, Arkane is hard at work and everything is fine.

PC Gamer

Microsoft's year of shame

Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!

Windows Central

Arkane Austin’s closure still casts a long shadow, with Dishonored’s director lamenting the projects and potential left on the cutting‑room floor — "We were making something very cool."

Arkane Austin director Harvey Smith reflects on Microsoft and Xbox's closure of the studio after Redfall's failure at launch.

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Every game, trailer, and announcement in the 2025 PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted

25 games we're hyped about and a whole load of new reveals.

PC Gamer

Veteran game developer Scott Miller explains why it took 3D Realms so long to get PC gaming's most ambitious but ultimately flawed sci-fi FPS game over the line: 'Let's just put all our eggs into the Duke Nukem basket'

Aliens, big guns, and portals take time to cook

PC Gamer

Former Bethesda marketing VP says he fought against reusing the Prey name for Arkane's 2017 immersive sim: 'I definitely pissed some people off internally over that'

Pete Hines was not happy about the choice because "we spend more time explaining why it's called Prey than we do talking about the game."

PC Gamer

Arkane's timewarp shooter Deathloop is free on the Epic Games Store for the first time ever

You don't want to miss this one.

PC Gamer

Arkane was 'devastated' by its cancelled Half-Life 2 Ravenholm game, but the masterclass it got from late visionary artist Viktor Antonov 'was pivotal to what would become Arkane later'

He "trained us in all of their practices".

PC Gamer

Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio gave up on the System Shock remake because the cyberspace sequences were 'too hard,' and I can't tell you how disappointed I am right now

I kid, of course. Mostly, anyway.

GamesRadar

"That was not going to work for Valve": Canceled Half-Life spinoff game Ravenholm was "great, frankly," says Arkane founder, but it couldn’t survive under Valve's "very clear business plan"

Ravenholm didn't stand a chance

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