Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
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GamesBeat Rewind 2017: Hellblade’s Senua is the year’s best new gaming character

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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I couldn’t quite get enough votes for Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice as Game of the Year at GamesBeat. But my colleagues took pity on me and voted to give Hellblade’s Senua the award of best new game character of 2017.

This was obvious to me, but for those who haven’t played it yet, Ninja Theory’s self-published Hellblade is a hard game to play because it does such a good job of depicting a Celtic warrior’s descent into madness. Senua journeys (at least in her mind) to the Norse underworld to bring her love back from the dead, and her haunting screams are still with me.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.