Microsoft Gaming has so many games and so little time to talk about them all. The Xbox Games Showcase gave shape to the 2024 lineup of upcoming Xbox Series X games, including a fresh look at Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2. The new adventure continues to impress, with developer Ninja Theory leveraging Unreal Engine 5, as well as cutting-edge motion capture and photogrammetry technologies, to set a new benchmark for graphic fidelity on the platform. Ninja Theory wants to leverage technology to capture reality, and Hellblade 2 is a central component of that creative initiative.
Central, but not the only one. While all attention continues to be diverted to Senua's sophomore adventure by developer and publisher alike, I believe that a fresh look at one of Xbox's most compelling exclusives is a long-overdue update. Announced in 2020, Project: MARA has been positioned as "an experimental project" that Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades believes "could become a new immersive storytelling medium."
