Absurd Ventures, the brand new transmedia firm based by GTA co-creator Dan Houser, has revealed its new sport and animation universe, the ‘Absurdaverse’.
“Put together to satisfy some new sorts of heroes (and watch them undergo),” reads an announcement printed on Friday, alongside a picture of twenty colourful characters, starting from acquainted GTA-style protagonists to a Viking and a hooded ghoul.
In accordance with Absurd, extra info on its plans for Absurdaverse will come this 12 months, together with animation tasks and an “unique story-driven action-comedy journey sport” set to star a number of the characters revealed on Friday.
Along with Absurdaverse, Absurd can be engaged on two additional fiction “universes”: American Caper, which can start life as a graphic novel, and A Higher Paradise, which is an audio fiction sequence.
Dan Houser co-founded Rockstar in 1998, and finally left the corporate in early 2020, after having written and produced its largest video games together with GTA 3 – 5, Purple Lifeless Redemption and its sequel, Bully, and Max Payne 3. He introduced California-based Absurd Ventures in 2024.
Rockstar veterans Lazlow Jones and Michael Unsworth had been working alongside Houser at Absurd.
Jones was beforehand chargeable for in-game artistic audio and video content material, whereas former Purple Lifeless Redemption sequence author Unsworth labored on nearly all of Rockstar’s main releases throughout 16 years on the firm.
