Dan Houser left an unerasable mark on gaming via his work at Rockstar, although he has since moved on to new initiatives. This consists of two new IPs his leisure firm is engaged on.

You shouldn’t count on conventional gaming experiences from Absurd Ventures. The primary IP, American Caper, focuses on two households dealing with a world of “corrupt enterprise, inept politics and bungling crime.” We’ll discover this universe via a graphic novel illustrated by comedian e book artist Simon Bisley. The primary story arrives in 2024.

A Higher Paradise is the second IP. It’s an existential suspense thriller being made with assist from Q-CODE Media. Apparently, it’ll take the type of a 12-episode audio fiction sequence. It additionally arrives in 2024.

Dan Houser and Absurd Ventures

Houser is a co-founder of Rockstar and has served as a author for the Grand Theft Auto and Crimson Useless Redemption franchises. He left the corporate in 2020 earlier than beginning Absurd Ventures in 2021. We haven’t seen a lot from the enterprise but and the official web site doesn’t supply a lot steering, that includes little however some cryptic photos and many-sided cube with provocative phrases on them.

There are different initiatives in retailer from the leisure firm, because it intends to convey extra tales from American Caper and A Higher Paradise to a variety of codecs and platforms. Commenting on the IPs, Houser states that that is only the start, and the preliminary releases will enable them to introduce the 2 universes whereas “engaged on different iterations and expansions.”

Although Houser might have left Rockstar, it appears crass humor and depictions of American society are a relentless in all the pieces he touches. I’m to see how Absurd Ventures will use various mediums for inventive storytelling.