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News Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Next-Gen Upgrade Skipping PS5

"No plans" to bring update to other platforms

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice has today received a free next-gen upgrade that adds ray tracing, higher frame rates, and a resolution boost. However, you needn't bother powering up your PlayStation 5 and looking for the update because it's exclusive to Xbox Series X|S for now, with a PC specific patch...

• Mon 9th Aug 2021
• 505 Games
• PS4
• Hellblade

News Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Whispers to Retail This December

No excuses not to play now

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was one of the most emotionally challenging titles of 2017, and it’s finally getting a retail release on 4th December. Published by 505 Games on the PlayStation 4, the title will compile the full Celtic adventure on Blu-ray for the first time. Here’s what we said about the release when...

• Tue 9th Oct 2018
• 505 Games
• PS4
• Hellblade

News Ninja Theory Explains Hellblade's PSVR Snub

There's a reasonable explanation

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice was announced for virtual reality headsets earlier today, but it won’t support PlayStation VR, prompting a bit of a backlash. Some felt that developer Ninja Theory – now a Microsoft subsidiary – was skipping Sony’s headset for corporate reasons, an assumption not exactly...

• Wed 25th Jul 2018
• Ninja Theory
• PS4
• PlayStation VR
• Hellblade

News Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Updated on PS4 Despite Microsoft Acquisition

HDR support added

The thought-provoking Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice has received one more update on the PlayStation 4, despite Microsoft recently acquiring Cambridge-based developer Ninja Theory. Version 1.03 adds HDR support to both the PS4 and PS4 Pro versions of the game, and it also cleans up some very minor bugs. We really liked the Celtic...

• Wed 25th Jul 2018
• Ninja Theory
• PS4
• Hellblade
• Patches

News Horizon: Zero Dawn Sweeps Nominations at DICE Awards 2018

Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy close behind

With our very own Game of the Year list enshrined in history, you'd be forgiven for thinking that the jury's in on the best games of last year. However, apparently a panel of industry professionals called the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences has announced their...

• Sat 13th Jan 2018
• Sony
• PS4
• DICE Awards
• 2018

Game of the Year 2017 #7 - Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice

The voices

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is dark, poignant, and utterly essential. It’s the only game in our 2017 countdown capable of having long-lasting effects on real lives, and for that alone it deserves its position in our list. But the Celtic adventure is so much more than an exploration into the symptoms of psychosis – it’s also an...

• Tue 26th Dec 2017
• Game of the Year
• 2017
• Hellblade
• PS4
• Features

News Hellblade Raised a Helluva Lot of Money on World Mental Health Day

Senua's sacrifice

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice is a great game that’s done a lot of good for people who played it and its developer, too. Even better: it’s about to do a helluva lot of good for people with mental illnesses, as Ninja Theory has raised a whopping £60,798 (about $80,000) for the Rethink Mental Illness charity. Bravo all around...

• Sun 29th Oct 2017
• Ninja Theory
• PS4
• Hellblade

News Ninja Theory's Hellblade Has Exceeded Sales Expectations

But hasn't broken even yet

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice may not be the best game of the year, but it’s certainly one of the most memorable. Ninja Theory’s tale of mental illness was harrowing and hard to parse – but it was effective in using the medium to convey a very specific state of mind. So it’s refreshing to hear that it’s...

• Thu 26th Oct 2017
• Ninja Theory
• PS4
• Hellblade
• Industry

News Hellblade's Accolades Trailer Favours Players Over Pithy Press Clichés

Buy the game tomorrow and support a good cause

How many times does the press need to tell you the latest game is the best you’ve ever played? Even as reviewers, we appreciate you’ve probably got the memo by now. It’s so refreshing to see Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice take a different direction for its accolades trailer, then. This clip is...

• Tue 10th Oct 2017
• Ninja Theory
• PS4
• Hellblade
• Trailers

Soapbox Hellblade's Permadeath Threat Is What Makes Games Special

Sammy's as worried as you are – and that's the point

Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice erases your progress if you let the rot scaling the protagonist’s arm reach her mind. Or does it? I’m not going to get into the specifics of this system because Ninja Theory kindly asked me not to spoil it at all, but it does raise a wider question about games...

• Tue 8th Aug 2017
• Ninja Theory
• PS4
• Hellblade
• Soapbox
• Features