{"id":2013,"date":"2017-10-10T13:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/307295"},"modified":"2017-10-10T13:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T13:39:00","slug":"hellblade-dev-marking-world-mental-health-day-by-donating-game-sales-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/hellblade-dev-marking-world-mental-health-day-by-donating-game-sales-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Hellblade dev marking World Mental Health Day by donating game sales to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice<\/em> developer Ninja Theory\u00a0is marking World Mental Health Day by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninjatheory.com\/wp\/?cat=1\">donating all proceeds from today&#8217;s sales of the game<\/a> to mental health\u00a0charity, Rethink.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rethink\u00a0is a UK\u00a0organization that supports and campaigns for those severely affected by mental illness.\u00a0The group wants to help those affected by the invisible illness\u00a0by challenging and changing\u00a0attitudes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hellblade&#8217;s<\/em> protagonist Senua, suffers from psychosis, and both critics and fans have praised the way the game delicately and intelligently represents the condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ninja Theory has put together a new game trailer for the occassion, but instead of featuring buzzwords and marketing jargon, this one spotlights messages sent in by <em>Hellblade\u00a0<\/em>players keen to share their own mental health experiences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Donations will only be taken (after sales tax and platform fees)\u00a0from PS4 and PC\u00a0purchases made on October 10, so if you&#8217;ve been waiting for a good opportunity to dive into <em>Hellblade<\/em>, now&#8217;s the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hellblade: Senua&#8217;s Sacrifice developer Ninja Theory\u00a0is marking World Mental Health Day by donating all proceeds from today&#8217;s sales of the game to mental health\u00a0charity, Rethink.\u00a0 Rethink\u00a0is a UK\u00a0organization that supports and campaigns for those severely affected by mental illness.\u00a0The group wants to help those affected by the invisible illness\u00a0by challenging and changing\u00a0attitudes. Hellblade&#8217;s protagonist Senua, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}