Pocketpair Publishing – the publishing arm of the studio behind Palworld, Pocketpair – has introduced that it is going to be following up on the latest launch of horror title Lifeless Take by working with one other studio to launch one other sport. Whereas the corporate hasn’t but revealed concrete particulars, solely referring to it as “a really thrilling new sport”, communications director and publishing supervisor John Buckley stated that it’s one among “fairly a number of” video games that the corporate is working in direction of publishing.
“Signed a VERY thrilling sport a few days in the past,” wrote Buckley on social media platform X. “Actually excited to share extra information about it sooner or later, but it surely must cook dinner for a bit first! Have fairly a number of others within the wings that we’ll begin revealing quickly although! All bangers in fact.”
Pocketpair had introduced its plans to publish indie video games all the way in which again in January, with the primary sport being initially introduced as a “model new horror sport” that had “an unique method” by Surgent Studios – the developer behind Tales of Kenzera: Zau. The sport would finally be revealed as being Lifeless Take, which got here out on PC on July 31.
Shortly after saying the partnership, Buckley had taken to social media to jot down about why the corporate determined to enter sport publishing. In a sequence of posts, he wrote about Pocketpair’s goals of serving to indie studios get their tasks financed in a approach that they don’t get “wrapped up in smelly rule makers and bullies.”
“We provide you with cash. You make the sport,” posted Buckley. “If you need assist with advertising and marketing or one thing we’ll assist out, however in any other case do no matter you need. “We’re giving devs the monetary freedom to make video games they need so that they DON’T must get wrapped up in smelly rule makers and bullies.”
Buckley additionally spoke about feeling shocked on the stage of curiosity Pocketpair Publishing acquired when the publishing wing was first introduced. “We introduced Pocketpair Publishing 15 hours in the past… My inboxes have been 0 earlier than then… I believe I might need underestimated how a lot curiosity right here can be,” posted Buckley again in January.
Lifeless Take was the primary sport printed by Pocketpair Publishing. The title was correctly unveiled with a small teaser, with studio CEO Abubakar Salim saying that the secretive nature of the sport’s reveal served a function.
“We’re being secretive for a cause,” stated Salim in a press release included with the press launch saying Lifeless Take. “The subject material of this sport is delicate, and it hits near house. When it comes out, and it gained’t be lengthy till it does, I need gamers to assume, ‘I can’t imagine they really did this.”
Again in July, Lifeless Take acquired a correct trailer which revealed that the sport would characteristic fairly a number of well-known actors, together with Neil Newbon (Baldur’s Gate 3’s Astarion) and Ben Starr (Closing Fantasy 16’s Clive Rossfeld). The sport additionally incorporates a host of well-known voice actors, together with Matthew Mercer and Laura Bailey, and even incorporates a cameo by Sam Lake.
