The studio is already working on a first game for all platforms on the market.
Dan HouserRockstar Games co-founder who produced GTA V and wrote Red Dead Redemption 2, among many other titles, has announced the creation of a new entertainment media company such as video games, movies or series. Regarding consoles, the now founder anticipates that “will create new IPs on all platforms and for all formats“.
Absurd Venturesname of this new company, has been built “to create new universes and tell great stories, where and how we can”, Houser explained in a statement collected by Gamingbolt and it comes years after his departure from Take-Two in February 2020, although his “prolonged hiatus” began in the spring of 2019, 21 years after founding the studio in the who has been a writer, producer and dubbing actor.
Dan Houser has always been a key figure of Rockstar Games after writing or co-writing almost every game in the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption seriesbeing behind other titles such as Bully and Max Payne 3. One of his milestones was appearing on Time magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people in 2009.
New video game studios
In recent weeks, the occasional additional video game studio has been founded. One of them is Blank, created by the director of Cyberpunk 2077 together with other members of CD Projekt Reda study that curiously also lost part of its team to found Dark Passenger, which is already working on Unreal Engine 5 to create a PvPvE multiplayer experience set in feudal Japanwhere the protagonists will take the role of shinobi and kunoichi and fight both with other players and with enemies controlled by the game’s AI.
What will the video games of all these new studios be like? When will we start to meet them? Will Absurd Ventures get hit games like GTA or Red Dead Redemption?