Is this a delivery? No, it’s an Xbox Series X/S controller designed in a lab to smell like pizza. In the eve of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemAugust 2023 release Microsoft is giving away a number of TMNT themed controllers inspired by cutscenes.
“Designed to deliver the smell of the Turtles’ favorite dish during your gameplay, these exclusive Xbox wireless controllers come with a built-in aroma diffuser shaped like a slice of delicious New York ‘za,” reads the official description. As long as it doesn’t smell disgusting, it will probably make you very hungry when you sit down to play and probably kill your battery life in the process.
There are four unique controller variations – one for each of the four turtles – bearing their names in graffiti, a profile picture and optional weapons along with the green slime. They actually look really neat and like a lot of recent Microsoft branded partnerships, it would be great if you could actually just go out and buy them.
According to art official announcement on Xbox Wire for the contest, all you have to do to win one of these is follow the Xbox Game Pass Twitter account and retweet the lottery tweet. Perfect timing given the social media website continues to unravel before our eyes thanks to the insane mood swings of the billionaires and the underlings in their inner circle who never say no to them.
Microsoft’s new TMNT the crossover also extends to Minecraft, where new DLC arriving on August 3 will add playable Turtles, Krang, and Leatherhead enemies and locations from the film, including the characters’ sewers. We don’t have screenshots of what this will look like yet, but it actually sounds super nice.
In the meantime, you can always get into the spirit of eating pizza and fighting foot soldiers with a 2023 GOTY contender Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (on Game Pass and PS Plus Extra) or the excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection which collects every retro platformer and beat-em-up in the franchise’s long history of video game adaptations.