Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures is teasing some new initiatives together with an animated sequence and an action-comedy journey recreation.
“Prepare to meet some new kinds of heroes (and watch them suffer),” 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 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 path of the Grand Theft Auto and Purple Lifeless Redemption franchises, which have collectively bought greater than 550 million models worldwide. (Theoretically, that’s about $33 billion price of video games). Houser left Rockstar Video games in 2020.
Absurd Ventures shall be introducing this universe with animation initiatives later this yr. There’s additionally an unique story-driven action-comedy journey recreation set within the Absurdaverse at present in growth at Absurd Ventures studios.
And that’s all they’re saying in the mean 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’ 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 varied varieties.
The corporate has already launched a chart-topping audio fiction sequence set within the “A Better Paradise” universe and shall be debuting an American Caper comics sequence and Absurdaverse animation initiatives in 2025. Houser, Absurd Ventures is headquartered in Santa Monica, California, with extra studio places of work in Marin county, California.
