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The creator of GTA has announced his new game and it looks horrifying

Absurd Ventures, the game and creative studio founded by Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, has shared a first image of the characters from its upcoming world called Absurdaverse. This new project, which is in development, promises to be an adventure and action video game with comedic elements, combining fantasy archetypes with characters from the modern world. The creator of GTA seems to only know how to make GTA. The game’s description suggests that it falls within a broad and somewhat elusive genre classified as action-adventure and comedy. This term was used in the recent publication of […]

Absurd Ventures, the game and creative studio founded by Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar Games, has shared a first image of the characters from its upcoming world called Absurdaverse. This new project, which is in development, promises to be an adventure and action video game with comedic elements, combining fantasy archetypes with characters from the modern world.

The creator of GTA seems to only know how to make GTA

The game’s description suggests that it falls within a broad and somewhat elusive genre classified as action-adventure and comedy. This term was used in the recent publication by the studio, which claims that players will be able to meet “new types of heroes (and watch them suffer)”. However, the initial character illustrations have sparked mixed reactions, as many critics consider them to be overly stereotypical and generic.

The characters presented, ranging from an “annoying child” to a “businessman”, seem to follow common trends in comedy, which has led some to question the originality and quality of the final content. According to observations, the proposal is more oriented towards commercial viability than creative innovation, evoking memories of low-quality web series from past eras.

Among the most skeptical perceptions is the idea that the Absurdaverse could be a clear attempt to create a commercially attractive universe, designed to be marketed and generate merchandising. While video game enthusiasts and former Houser followers hope for a positive surprise, many are already reserved about a project that might not present significant innovations.

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The co-creator of Rockstar is developing an open-world game

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar and now founder of Absurd Ventures, is looking for people to work on a video game… that sounds like GTA.

In 2020, the news broke: Dan Houser, one of the founders of Rockstar Games, had left the company. But far from retiring, he did it to establish a new company: Absurd Ventures. A company in which he sought to create stories in different media, with the aim of making podcasts, movies, series, comics, novels, and also video games. But since then, we have known little about what they have been working on. Until now.

Thanks to a job offer on your website, we have learned that you are working on an open-world action and adventure video game. Furthermore, your goal is to offer “the best third-person combat and action through multiple game modes”. Considering that you are still looking for directors, designers, and producers in the highest possible positions, it is likely that you are still in the early stages of production. And, of course, it will take months or years before we see anything more.

Despite everything, we know two specific projects they are working on. American Caper will be a comic drawn by Simon Bisley that will follow two normal American families who find themselves involved in a world of corruption and political and criminal ineptitude. A Better Paradise will be a podcast that, according to the people at Absurd Ventures, will be an “existential thriller of suspense set in the near future.”

All of this makes us suspect that they won’t be working on something very different from GTA. Something that is confirmed when we discover that along with Dan Houser, two Rockstar veterans are working on Absurd Ventures: writer and producer Lazlow Jones and writer Michael Unsworth.

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While there is still a long time to see a video game from this company, it seems likely that we will first see more of their podcast and comic. They are trying to expand them through different media, if they have the success they hope for. That’s why it wouldn’t be surprising if the video game they are working on belongs to the American Caper or A Better Paradise universe. What we do know is that we will be here to cover it.

The co-creator of GTA has announced two new intellectual properties

The co-creator of GTA has announced two new intellectual properties, and although neither of them is a video game, it has our curiosity

Dan Houser, co-founder of Rockstar who left the studio on March 11, 2020, is making headlines these days. If yesterday we told you that he had signed two important veterans from his former company for his new venture, Absurd Ventures, today he has decided to continue dropping some information about what they are working on. Although it’s not related to video games, it’s likely to eventually materialize into video games.

Because today, the names of the two new IPs and the media in which the first projects of Absurd Ventures will begin development have been announced. The first one is American Caper, a comic drawn by the British artist Simon Bisley —known for works like Lobo or Sláine—, which will focus on “two normal and severely damaged American families in a world of corrupt businesses, inept politicians, and clumsy crimes.” The second one is named A Better Paradise and it will be an audio fiction of twelve episodes in collaboration with QCODE Media, described as an “existential suspense thriller set in the near future.”

Although neither of the two projects has a specific release date yet, the idea is for them to appear at some point in 2024. Additionally, Absurd Ventures intends to develop the universes where these stories take place across more formats and platforms. Therefore, it’s expected that, if successful, these narratives will extend beyond their initial stories and, who knows, possibly evolve into some form of video games.

In fact, this is something that Houser himself has emphasized. Stating that this is a way of storytelling that allows them to introduce universes while working on other iterations and expansions, he has concluded that this is just the beginning of something larger. And coming from one of the masterminds behind GTA, we believe him.

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