Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures is teasing some new tasks together with an animated collection and an action-comedy journey recreation.
“Prepare to meet some new kinds of heroes (and watch them suffer),” 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 associate 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 course of the Grand Theft Auto and Purple Lifeless Redemption franchises, which have collectively bought greater than 550 million items worldwide. (Theoretically, that’s about $33 billion price of video games). Houser left Rockstar Video games in 2020.
Absurd Ventures might be introducing this universe with animation tasks later this yr. There may be additionally an unique story-driven action-comedy journey recreation set within the Absurdaverse at present in improvement 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’ unique properties embody 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 Lifeless creator Robert Kirkman, Absurd Ventures is testing concepts in numerous kinds.
The corporate has already launched a chart-topping audio fiction collection set within the “A Better Paradise” universe and might be debuting an American Caper comics collection and Absurdaverse animation tasks in 2025. Houser, Absurd Ventures is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with extra studio workplaces in Marin county, California.
