Hellblade studio launches a new venture to explore mental health through games

In 2017, developer Ninja Theory released Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, an action-adventure game that took ambitious steps in exploring mental health and psychosis. Senua, a warrior struggling with psychosis, must not only overcome physical challenges, but also those presented by her mind. The award-winning game was a hit. But it also proved to the team that there was a place, as well as a need, for more games that carefully represented mental health.

Ninja Theory is working on a new venture, called The Insight Project, to do just that. The team will use tech, game design, and clinical neuroscience to work on new methods of therapy for mental disorders. In an interview with The Verge, Ninja Theory co-founder Tameem Antoniades called the...

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