Announcing Senua’s Scholarship
We are proud to announce Senua’s Scholarship! A Ninja Theory funded scholarship that will support the training of mental health tutors and their incredible......
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DEVELOPMENT BLOG
Hellblade Retail Edition Coming December 4th
Did someone say Hellblade retail edition? We listened to all of your requests, and today we are very excited to announce that Hellblade:......
09 October, 20189 Comments
Vote for Hellblade for the TIGA Game of the Year 2018
Voting is now open for the TIGA Game of the Year 2018! You can vote for Hellblade by clicking here, and voting will......
20 September, 20184 Comments
Development Diary 25: Becoming Senua
For our latest Hellblade Development Diary Episode 25, our lead actress Melina Juergens recounts her personal journey in becoming Senua. Discover how her......
24 December, 201613 Comments
New Track from the Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice Soundtrack
Today we’ve released a new track from the Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice soundtrack. The track title is ‘Deeper’, composed and performed by Andy LaPlegua....
30 November, 20169 Comments
Hellblade Production Update
Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice will now be releasing in 2017. Check out our video below for more information....
30 November, 201616 Comments
New Hellblade Wallpapers
We’ve made some new Hellblade wallpapers for you all. Firstly, we have a high-res in-game screenshot of Senua available in a variety of......
30 November, 20169 Comments
Development Diary 24: Hearing Voices
Our latest development diary explores how we’ve created the voices that haunt Senua throughout her journey in Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice. Make sure to wear......
25 November, 201611 Comments
Hellblade wins Best Real-Time Graphics Award!
We have just won the Siggraph 2016 Award for Best Real-Time Graphics & Interactivity for a showcase deomonstration of a technique we’re calling......
27 July, 201614 Comments
Development Diary 23: Combat Revisited | Part 2
Part 2 of our combat focused episodes. See new in-development footage of Senua in action ...
03 June, 201623 CommentsThe Senua Trailer in VR
To start off, an important note: To be clear the release of the Senua Trailer in VR doesn’t mean that Hellblade will be......
10 May, 201612 Comments
Development Diary 22: Combat Revisited | Part 1
In our new Dev Diary video we take a look at how Hellblade’s combat gameplay is progressing. ...
20 April, 201617 Comments
Development Diary 21: Making a Virtual Human
See our actress perform a Hellblade scene live & rendered into the game world in real-time in our new diary:...
18 March, 201613 Comments
New Hellblade title & Poster
Hi Everyone, we’re happy to be sharing a new poster with you today and also reveal a new for the game: Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice.......
16 March, 201633 Comments
Development Diary 20: Movement & Control
In our new development diary we show the approach that we are taking to giving Senua’s movement realism and character:...
29 January, 201622 Comments
Development Diary 19: Atmospheric VFX
In our final Development Diary of 2015 we show some of the work that is going into creating Hellblade’s atmosphere:...
21 December, 20158 Comments
Development Diary 18: The Shoot Set Up
We’ve now begun shooting for Hellblade! In our new dev diary we give a behind the scenes look at our in-house performance capture set......
04 December, 20157 Comments
Development Diary 17: A New Body
In our most recent development diary we showed how we’re striving to create our most believable character face yet. In this video we......
06 November, 201514 Comments
Development Diary 16: The Face of Senua
In Hellblade we’re striving to create our most believable and compelling character yet. In our 16th development diary we focus on the creation......
23 October, 20158 Comments
Development Diary 15: Binaural Audio Test
In our latest Development Diary we show how we are using binaural recording techniques to create a 3D soundscape for our players. Wear......
12 October, 201513 Comments
BAFTA Crew Games Masterclass: Tameem & Hellblade
A few weeks back we were invited to talk to the BAFTA Games Crew about Hellblade and in particular our exploration of psychosis......
07 October, 20154 Comments
EGX 2015 Talk: Hellblade Open Development
Dominic Matthews I had the pleasure of presenting a Developer Session at EGX yesterday, the full video of which is below. If you’re......
25 September, 20155 Comments
Environment Art Style Test
The following is a video of a Hellblade pre-production Art Style Test: Dan Attwell – Principal Environment Artist What is an environment art......
21 September, 20153 Comments
Into Production!
Whoops! We caused a bit of confusion today with the following tweet: ......
21 September, 20154 Comments
Ninja Store Now Open!
Dominic Matthews Late last year we asked you to vote for which Hellblade t-shirt design you’d like us to create first. There was a......
07 September, 201511 Comments
Development Diary 14: New Perspectives
In our 14th Development Diary we discuss how our research is bringing new perspectives to the creative process as we strive to build......
24 August, 20159 Comments
Development Diary 13: Creating the Story
In this month’s Development Diary video we focus on how we are creating Hellblade’s story:...
27 July, 20159 Comments
Develop Conference 2015
Dominic Matthews Last week I went down to the Develop Conference in Brighton to talk about Hellblade and Independent AAA. The purpose of......
20 July, 20153 Comments
New Enemy Idea Sketches
Here are some new ideas for enemies in sketch form, put together in this image by Studio Art Director Alessandro Taini. Let us know what......
06 July, 201528 Comments
Perception & Creativity
Tameem Antoniades A few months ago, I thought about writing a blog post about designing characters and the importance of silhouette, colour and......
28 June, 20159 Comments
Thoughts on E3
Dominic Matthews From this year’s E3 show I came away with the feeling that the video game industry has recovered from the uncertainty......
23 June, 20155 Comments
Hellblade E3 Trailer and more
Today we’re happy to be sharing our new Hellblade trailer with you, as well as the latest in our series of development diary......
10 June, 201541 Comments
After the Vertical Slice, what’s next?
Tameem Antoniades We have just finished wrapping up the vertical slice, our first playable section of the game. Most team members took a......
01 June, 201514 Comments
Development Diary 11: First Playable
In our new Development Diary we show the process behind the creation of the Hellblade first playable:...
19 May, 201514 Comments
The Viking Tower
Dominic Matthews Today we’re sharing a new concept for Hellblade’s central tower: In this new concept Alessandro ‘Talexi’ Taini has iterated on our......
11 May, 201513 Comments
Usability, Focus Testing and Playtesting
Tameem Antoniades As you may know we are currently working on our Vertical Slice, the details of which were covered recently here In......
04 May, 20158 Comments
Development Diary 10: Capturing Performance
As a studio we strive to create believable characters that you as a player care about. Fundamental to our approach is using performance capture......
27 April, 201516 Comments
The Importance of Anatomy
Dominic Matthews In Tameem’s original description of Senua he said that she “is not sexy, not proud, not heroic, not pretty and not......
13 April, 201555 Comments
Answering your Game Development Questions
Dominic Matthews An important part of Hellblade’s open development is giving students and budding developers an insight into how games are made in the......
30 March, 20158 Comments
Vertical Slice
Tameem Antoniades Apologies for there not being a video diary this month. With Dom being away for GDC and Melina away on holiday......
23 March, 201512 Comments
Enemy Art: A New Direction
Tameem Antoniades Recently we lost two team members. Our character artists and our art director. We managed to hire a new art lead,......
16 March, 201520 Comments
GDC Report
Dominic Matthews Last week I made the trip out to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. GDC is the largest annual gathering......
09 March, 20152 Comments
Hellblade Soundtrack: Battle March
Here is a full track from the Hellblade soundtrack called Battle March: And below we’ve answered a few of your questions on......
03 March, 201522 Comments
Development Diary 9: The Music
Tameem Antoniades Music is such a powerful tool for driving emotion, often more so than art, dialogue or plot. So it makes......
23 February, 201526 Comments
20 Hellblade Questions Answered
Over the weekend we asked the Hellblade community to give us their questions for today’s Q&A. We tried to make a video answering......
16 February, 201520 Comments
PlayStation Access Video Interview
Last week we were very happy to welcome the team from PlayStation Access to the studio to see the Hellblade team and to......
11 February, 20156 Comments
Team Changes
Dom In the past month we’ve said goodbye to two Hellblade team members. Stuart Adcock, Art Director and Claire Blustin, Senior Character Artist,......
09 February, 201511 Comments
Senua: My most detailed project so far! By LadyLemonCosplay
Dom When I first saw the amazing pictures of Lady Lemon’s Senua cosplay costume my first thought was that we have to know......
02 February, 201521 Comments
Development Diary 8: Prototyping Phase
Over the past few months we’ve been hard at work in the prototyping phase of Hellblade. This episode of our Development Diary series......
26 January, 201538 Comments
Video Insight: Combat Review Meeting
We want to give you some more informal video updates outside of the video diaries so here is one on combat. Yesterday......
20 January, 201518 Comments
Hellblade Team Vacancy: Senior Character Artist
We’re on the look out for a Senior Character Artist to lead Hellblade’s character creation. The full details are below. Senior Character Artist......
14 January, 20155 Comments
Hellblade is coming to PC
Today we are happy to announce that Hellblade will be coming to PC, alongside the previously announced PlayStation 4 version. We’re excited to......
08 January, 2015125 Comments
Ursula Le Guin: Product vs Art
Tameem Antoniades I wasn’t going to write a blog post this week until I saw this speech from Ursula Le Guin: If you’ve......
22 December, 20147 Comments
T-Shirt Design Fan Vote
Our T-Shirt Design Poll has now closed and the winner is design C with 47% of the vote: Over the next few......
15 December, 201437 Comments
Live Twitch Q&A
An archive version of the Hellblade Twitch Q&A from December 8th is here:...
08 December, 201413 CommentsGoals and Milestones
Tameem Antoniades Goals & Milestones We have about 3 working weeks left this side of 2014 so it was a good time to......
01 December, 20144 Comments
Development Diary 7: Creating Cover Art
We’ve made a habit of releasing our Development Diary videos on a Monday, but this week we’re making an exception to that rule......
21 November, 201423 Comments
What’s in a Pose?
Tameem Antoniades Introduction Sometimes, it’s the seemingly little decisions that are the tricky ones. I came across one this week when deciding on......
17 November, 201428 Comments
Development Diary 6: Camera, Controls & Combat
This week’s Development Diary focuses on some of the first areas that we have been prototyping in Hellblade. The gameplay camera, the controls and......
10 November, 201429 Comments
DICE Europe Live Stream: Opening the Doors of Development
On Wednesday 24th Sept, Tameem gave a talk at DICE Europe in London entitled Opening the Doors of Development. You can watch a......
24 September, 20145 CommentsDesign: Choosing a camera system
Tameem Antoniades Hello, I am currently preparing for my first ever appearance at DICE Europe. It’s basically a conference for grown-up big-wigs in......
22 September, 201416 Comments
Development Diary 3: Senua
The 3rd installment of our development diary series focuses on Hellblade’s protagonist Senua. In this video we show her journey from original concept......
15 September, 201429 Comments
Unseen Ninja Theory: Kung Fu Story
We recently released the entire design documentation for Razer, one of our games that didn’t quite make it into production. You can......
08 September, 20147 Comments
Development Diary 2: Art Inspiration
Our 2nd Development Diary focuses on some of the early art inspiration of the team, in particular a reference gathering trip to the......
01 September, 201414 Comments
Development Diary 1: The Announcement
Hellblade was first revealed at Sony’s Gamescom press conference exactly two weeks ago with the debut of the game’s teaser trailer. Our intention......
26 August, 201420 Comments
Unseen Ninja Theory: Razer
Note: This post is not about Hellblade, but a concept of a different Ninja Theory game that never made it into production. For......
18 August, 201437 CommentsHellblade Announced!
Hellblade has just been announced to the world at the PlayStation Gamescom Press Conference in Cologne, Germany with the debut showing of the......
10 August, 201441 Comments
The Independent AAA Proposition
At this year’s GDC Europe Tameem (NT co-founder and Chief Creative Ninja) gave a talk entitled The Independent AAA Proposition. Tameem’s full presentation......
10 August, 201473 Comments