Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures is teasing some new tasks together with an animated sequence and an action-comedy journey recreation.
“Put together to satisfy some new sorts of heroes (and watch them undergo),” the corporate mentioned in a press release. The information comes shortly after South Korean recreation developer and writer Smilegate made a strategic funding and have become a accomplice in Absurd Ventures, a recreation studio based by Rockstar Video games cofounder Dan Houser.
Houser spent greater than 20 years at Rockstar video games and drove the artistic route of the Grand Theft Auto and Crimson Useless Redemption franchises, which have collectively bought greater than 550 million models worldwide. (Theoretically, that’s about $33 billion value of video games). Houser left Rockstar Video games in 2020.
Absurd Ventures shall be introducing this universe with animation tasks later this 12 months. There may be additionally an authentic story-driven action-comedy journey recreation set within the Absurdaverse at the moment in growth at Absurd Ventures studios.
And that’s all they’re saying in the meanwhile. Absurd Ventures is an leisure firm creating new IP throughout all mediums together with video video games, live-action and animated TV, movie, fiction podcasts, books, comedian books and extra.
Absurd Ventures’ authentic properties embrace the sci-fi thriller universe A Higher Paradise, the crime fiction universe American Caper, and the comedy satire universe Absurdaverse. In a playbook that resembles that of The Strolling Useless creator Robert Kirkman, Absurd Ventures is testing concepts in varied varieties.
The corporate has already launched a chart-topping audio fiction sequence set within the “A Higher Paradise” universe and shall be debuting an American Caper comics sequence and Absurdaverse animation tasks in 2025. Houser, Absurd Ventures is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with further studio workplaces in Marin county, California.
