Silver Rain Games is the name of this new development team, where Abubakar Salim will be in charge of being the creative director. First details.
Abubakar Salim, an actor known for having played Bayek in Assassin's Creed: Origins (2017, Ubisoft), among others, has opened a new video game studio called Silver Rain Games where he will serve as creative director. Salim, who also has experience as a narrator and voice actor in television series, will be accompanied by Melissa Phillips.
New franchise: vision beyond video games
Silver Rain Games, based in the United Kingdom, will thus have the patron saint of the Norwich Gaming Festival and extraworker for more than six years at the BAFTA Awards. Based, this new studio has a total of five employees and is defined, according to the web portal launched on the occasion of the foundation, as "an independent video game development studio that is intended to welcome new audiences for industry players. "
Our Director and Founder @abzybabzy is a BAFTA-Nominated Actor known for his role as Bayek of Siwa. An avid gamer, Abu's favorite games range from God of War to Dragon Ball Fighter. pic.twitter.com/4vL8uzeHUn
– Silver Rain Games (@SilverRainGames) March 28, 2020
From the same website you can access the job offers that are eventually published, since the team is not closed. Although no details have been given about the first video game that Silver Rain Games will make, they do confirm that they will start working on new intellectual properties, with a vision of designing experiences that can be expanded beyond the mere video game.
Speaking to GamesIndustry, Salim has also revealed that he is starting to produce two sister companies that will help him bring that new, currently unknown franchise to television, animated series and a potential comic.
This is not the only opening we have known in early 2020. Google, led by Stadia Games and Entertainment, inaugurated this same March a new development studio based in Playa Vista, California, to start developing new video games. It is the second development studio dedicated exclusively to Stadia; the first is the one located in Montreal, Canada. At the moment, neither project is known to the public.
References | Silver Rain Games; GamesIndustry
