Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures is teasing some new tasks together with an animated collection and an action-comedy journey recreation.
“Put together to fulfill some new sorts of heroes (and watch them endure),” the corporate mentioned in an announcement. The information comes shortly after South Korean recreation developer and writer Smilegate made a strategic funding and have become a companion 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 path of the Grand Theft Auto and Crimson Lifeless 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 might be introducing this universe with animation tasks later this yr. There’s additionally an authentic story-driven action-comedy journey recreation set within the Absurdaverse presently in improvement at Absurd Ventures studios.
And that’s all they’re saying in the intervening time. 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 Lifeless creator Robert Kirkman, Absurd Ventures is testing concepts in numerous types.
The corporate has already launched a chart-topping audio fiction collection set within the “A Higher 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 further studio workplaces in Marin county, California.
