10 Hellblade 2 Scariest Scenes That Will Make Your Skin Crawl

When I booted up Senua's Saga: Hellblade II for the first time, it began with an in-game cinematic, with the eponymous protagonist out at sea. Warrior Senua has willingly allowed herself to be taken captive by Northmen slavers and hopes to cross the sea and reach Iceland, the home of the Norse slavers, to free her people. Her plan is interrupted, however, when the ship meets a violent storm and is torn to shreds, throwing everyone overboard. Senua survives, barely, washed up on a rocky shore, and decides to look for other survivors along the coast.

Picture it: You’re at a party and you all decide you want to play a Jackbox party game. However, the person in charge has every single pack. How do you choose which game you play? If you want to play, say Trivia Murder Party 2, how do you even go about finding it? Now the party isn’t fun anymore.

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Each year Apple unloads a ton of new features across its product’s operating systems. Digging through the deluge of coming attractions, here are some of the minor ones coming to iPhones with the release of iOS 18 that will make a real difference in daily life.

Apple has lifted the curtain on its latest iOS operating system  iOS 18, during the WWDC 2024 developer conference. According to the tech giant, iOS 18 packs a punch with a slew of new features, boasting enhanced customization and functionality.

Since the beginning of 2024, we have seen multiple new smartphone innovations, from budget to flagship smartphones. However, the current week is filled with several new smartphone launches from brands such as Oppo, Xiaomi, Honor, and more. If you are planning to buy a new feature-filled smartphone, then you must check out the list of smartphones launching this week.

Ninja Theory has deployed a new Hellblade 2 patch, packing fixes for several issues, including frame generation ghosting issues, and more.

Rockstar Games has traditionally not released its new, flagship titles for PC day and date with consoles, with the likes of Grand Theft Auto 4, Grand Theft Auto 5, and Red Dead Redemption 2 all having seen belated releases on PC (and the original Red Dead Redemption still not having released for the platform at all). Regardless, some had hoped that the upcoming Grand Theft Auto 6 would, at the very least, see a simultaneous release on PC as well, only for Rockstar to confirm at the time of the game’s announcement in December that, once again, that wasn’t going to happen.

focuses a lot of the game's main narrative on overcoming the giants plaguing the land. Although the original focused on the mythological creatures for the final events in the game, the second game further explores these concepts in some meaningful ways. That said, because of the allegorical nature of the game, it's natural that confusion may arise when trying to understand certain key elements, like Senua's relationship with the giants.

The director of Baldur's Gate 3 and CEO of developers Larian has revealed that the studio experienced crunch in order to get the sprawling Dungeons & Dragons CRPG finished. While Swen Vincke admitted that “it would be a lie to say that we didn't [crunch]”, he insisted that it was less than on past Larian games such as Divinity, staff were paid for the overtime and it seemingly didn’t go as far as working late nights or weekends (for the most part, anyway).

isn't quite like most other games on the market, and there's one key part of its approach that definitely bears examination. As the follow-up to continues the story of a Pict warrior struggling with psychosis as she journeys into Iceland and faces new threats. Although the first game features plenty of combat and puzzle-solving, it's also very interested in being a cinematic experience, a concept that doubles down on.

Yasuke, history's first Black Samurai and one of two new protagonists in Assassin's Creed Shadows, has been the topic of both some peculiar criticism and passionate excitement - and if you fall into that latter camp, dear reader, I have just the game for you.