{"id":1465,"date":"2026-10-24T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:00:33","slug":"arkane-lyon-could-be-shut-down-within-weeks-as-deadline-to-find-a-buyer-looms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1465","title":{"rendered":"Arkane Lyon Could Be Shut Down Within Weeks As Deadline To Find A Buyer Looms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It might be the end of the road for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/marvels-blade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Marvel&#8217;s Blade<\/a> developer\u00a0Arkane Lyon, as a new report says that the studio has until November 13 to find a buyer or face closure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/pixels\/article\/2026\/10\/23\/microsoft-veut-fermer-arkane-studio-de-jeu-video-lyonnais-ou-217-emplois-sont-menaces_6799072_4408996.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/pixels\/article\/2026\/10\/23\/microsoft-veut-fermer-arkane-studio-de-jeu-video-lyonnais-ou-217-emplois-sont-menaces_6799072_4408996.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Le Monde<\/a> reported that while Microsoft had followed the procedure as laid out in Florange Law&#8211;French legislation that requires\u00a0Microsoft to spend at least three months searching for a buyer for Arkane Lyon&#8211;negotiations were going &#8220;badly,&#8221; and worker unions are currently attempting to buy more time to save jobs at the studio, which is currently still working on Marvel&#8217;s Blade. The report says &#8220;several forms of takeover&#8221; are being considered, but the union&#8217;s plans could include re-employing affected staff at other Xbox studios or\u00a0taking Microsoft to court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/xbox-wants-to-close-arkane-lyon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IGN<\/a>, development on Marvel&#8217;s Blade was still on track for a new reveal in early 2027, followed by a Q4 2027 release. The game was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/blade-game-announced-by-deathloop-dev-arkane-lyon\/1100-6519805\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">originally revealed in December 2023<\/a>, but aside from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/marvel-blade-concept-art-reveals-paris-under-siege-from-vampires\/1100-6519947\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">handful of concept art images<\/a> since then, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/microsoft-could-cancel-marvels-blade-and-close-its-developer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nothing else <\/a>has been shown. Bloomberg reporter Jason Schreier also <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/jasonschreier.bsky.social\/post\/3mykjvhv5wk2p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">corroborated reports<\/a> of &#8220;multiple paths&#8221; being explored and that he&#8217;d be surprised if the studio is shut down.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Marvel\u2019s Blade Official Announcement Trailer | The Game Awards 2023\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB9ye56mSfk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Arkane Lyon is facing closure, it&#8217;ll be the end of a studio that has been around for 27 years. Its first game was Arx Fatalis in 2002, and it followed that up with the release of Dark Messiah\u00a0of Might and Magic (2006) and KarmaStar (2009).\u00a0Since the 2010s, the studio has pumped out several hits like the Dishonored games\u00a0and Deathloop. The Texas-based studio that it operated, Arkane Austin, was established in 2006, but following the release of the critically panned Redfall in 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/arkane-founder-reflects-on-austin-studios-closure-the-people-survive\/1100-6525660\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/arkane-founder-reflects-on-austin-studios-closure-the-people-survive\/1100-6525660\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it was shut down in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/double-fine-ninja-theory-and-more-reportedly-trying-to-spin-off-from-xbox-game-studios\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkane Lyon&#8217;s departure<\/a> from the Xbox Games Studio portfolio was announced earlier this year, alongside Double Fine Productions, Compulsion Games,\u00a0Undead Labs, and Ninja Theory. Most of the studios have opted to become independent developers again, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/ninja-theory-now-expected-to-close-as-deal-falls-apart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ninja Theory is now expected to shut down<\/a> as plans for outside investors to acquire it fell through.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be the end of the road for Marvel&#8217;s Blade developer\u00a0Arkane Lyon, as a new report says that the studio has until November 13 to find a buyer or face closure. Le Monde reported that while Microsoft had followed the procedure as laid out in Florange Law&#8211;French legislation that requires\u00a0Microsoft to spend at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}