The TMNT Xbox controller smells like real pizza

Is this a delivery? No, it’s an Xbox Series X/S controller designed in a lab to smell like pizza. In advance of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant MayhemWith the August 2023 release, Microsoft is giving away a set number of TMNT themed slice controllers.

“Designed to bring the smell of the Turtles’ favorite food into your playtime, these exclusive Xbox Wireless Controllers feature a built-in fragrance diffuser in the form of a piece of delicious New York ‘Za,” reads the official description. As long as it doesn’t end up smelling gross, it’s likely to make you very hungry when you sit down to play, and probably drain your battery life in the process.

There are four unique controller variants – one for each of the four Turtles – which, in addition to the green mud paint job, also have their names in graffiti, a profile picture and their choice of weapons. They actually look really good and like many of Microsoft’s recent brand partnerships It would be cool if you could actually just buy them

According to one official announcement from Xbox Wire For the contest, all you have to do is follow and retweet the Xbox Game Pass Twitter account to win one of them the sweepstakes tweet. Perfect timing given the social media site continues to dissolve before our very eyes thanks to the brain-dead mood swings of the billionaires and the toadlicks in their inner circle who never say no to them.

Microsoft is new TMNT Crossover also extends to Minecraft, where a new DLC coming August 3 will add playable Turtles, Krang, and Leatherhead enemies, as well as locations from the film, including the heroes’ Sewer Cave. We don’t have any screenshots of what this will look like yet, but it actually sounds super cool.

In the meantime, you can always get in the mood for eating pizza and beating up foot soldiers with GOTY Contender 2023 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge (on Game Pass and PS Plus Extra) or the excellent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Cowabunga Collection Gathered here is every retro platformer and beat-em-up in the franchise’s long-running video game adaptation history.