Assassin's Creed Origins actor Abubakar Salim can't recommend The Last of Us star Troy Baker follow in his footsteps and open a game studio: "It's a ruthless space"

As The Last of Us, Death Stranding, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle star Troy Baker reveals he wants to start his own game studio to tell his “own stories,” one fellow actor who’s followed that very same path has a few words of warning.

Abubakar Salim, the actor behind Assassin’s Creed Origins protagonist Bayek, is also the founder of Surgent Studios – developer of 2024 Metroidvania title Tales of Kenzera: Zau and last year’s excellent psychological horror game Dead Take (which stars Neil Newbon, Ben Starr, and more). Baker actually gives him a shout-out when speaking to Eurogamer about his own game development dreams, saying, “I love Abu, I played the hell out of his games.”