{"id":84061,"date":"2026-06-07T13:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84061"},"modified":"2026-06-07T14:36:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:36:27","slug":"new-hellblade-game-already-coming-but-is-just-called-senua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84061","title":{"rendered":"New Hellblade Game Already Coming, But Is Just Called \u201cSenua\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During Summer Game Fest, Xbox unveiled what&#8217;s coming to Microsoft&#8217;s console in 2026 and the immediate future during its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/xbox-game-showcase-2026-all-the-biggest-announcements-so-far\/\">Xbox Game Showcase<\/a>. Among the announcements was a surprise reveal trailer for the next Hellblade game, which is just called &#8220;Senua,&#8221; instead of Hellblade III.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The title of just Senua really reflects that this is something fresh and new and different,&#8221; Ninja Theory studio head Dom Matthews said in an interview for <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/06\/07\/senua-ninja-theory-details-interview-action-adventure-xbox-games-showcase-2026\/\">Xbox Wire<\/a>. &#8220;It is a different style of game. I think [Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice] and [Senua&#8217;s Saga: Hellblade II] had an intention that we delivered on&#8211;but this is a different intention. I think of it as being additive&#8211;we&#8217;re taking all of that goodness and adding the types of things that people expect from a premium action-adventure game.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=91LAY9B6lUc  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Senua seems to be leaning a little bit harder into the &#8220;action&#8221; part of action-adventure. While Matthews says that the game will still feature a character-driven story and environment-driven puzzles, the team is taking the feedback for Hellblade II into account. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I did spend a lot of time looking at what players said&#8211;you know, user reviews and reading forums&#8211;and understanding what people loved and what they\u2019d like more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Summer Game Fest, Xbox unveiled what&#8217;s coming to Microsoft&#8217;s console in 2026 and the immediate future during its Xbox Game Showcase. Among the announcements was a surprise reveal trailer for the next Hellblade game, which is just called &#8220;Senua,&#8221; instead of Hellblade III. &#8220;The title of just Senua really reflects that this is something&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":84063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84064,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84061\/revisions\/84064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}