Abubakar Salim is CEO of Surgent Studios.
Abubakar Salim is CEO of Surgent Studios.
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Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to create a horror game for release in 2025.

Surgent continues conversations with potential partners around Project Uso (revealed in October 2024) and other projects set in the Tales of Kenzera universe. But this game is something new for the studio, which was started by House of the Dragon actor Abubakar Salim.  

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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.