Surgent Studios partners with Pocketpair for 2025 horror game
Surgent Studios, the maker of Tales of Kenzera: Zau, is partnering with Pocketpair Publishing, the newly founded publishing wing of Pocketpair (Palworld, Craftopia) to...
Surgent Studios’ next project is Project Uso, an Afro-Gothic RPG
Tales of Kenzera: Zau developer Surgent Studios told VGC that it is working on a game that it calls an Afro-Gothic RPG. It’s inspired...
Game studios are getting candid about funding problems | Kaser Focus
The games industry’s economic struggles are not exactly an unknown — by now, it’s been over a year since the layoffs, studio closures and...
Expressing grief for a father in Tales of Kenzera: Zau | Abubakar Salim interview
It’s no surprise that Abubakar Salim, head of Surgent Studios, does the voice acting for the main character Zau in the game Tales of...
Tales of Kenzera: Zau honors a lost father and the transformative power of loss
Tales of Kenzera: Zau is one of those games that has a deeply personal origin story. Abubakar Salim, an actor who starred in Assassin’s...
Tales of Kenzera: Zau explores grief through 2.5-D action
Surgent Studios revealed its debut game Tales of Kenzera: Zau at 2023’s edition of The Game Awards. The 2.5-D side-scrolling metroidvania game explores grief...