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In the Studio: Senua's Saga - Hellblade II

Video game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, featuring its female lead character with psychosis, was a huge success. Now the Ninja Theory team develop their ground-breaking sequel

Released in 2017, the video game Hellblade: Senua鈥檚 Sacrifice saw players take control of dark-age warrior Senua as she battled to rescue the soul of her dead lover from the Norse underworld. The action-adventure game from British studio Ninja Theory won awards for its gameplay, acting and storytelling, as well as plaudits for its nuanced and well-researched depiction of psychosis. German actor Melina Juergens was awarded a Bafta for her performance as the titular character. Now studio head Dominic Matthews and his team are working on the sequel, Senua鈥檚 Saga: Hellblade II. Nathan Jones joins Dominic, Melina and the rest of the team in Cambridge as they tell this next chapter of their story.

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