Summary
Dan Houser just addeddevelopers who worked onImmortals of Aveumto his team at Absurd Ventures. Houser left Rockstar in 2020, registering Absurd Ventures on official records in June 2021. Since then, Absurd Ventures has releasedA Better Paradise, a fiction podcast, with an upcoming series of graphic novels calledAmerican Caper. Absurd Marin, the company’s new studio, will focus on developing video games, utilizing the expertise of theImmortals of Aveumdevs.
Rockstar Games co-founderDan Houser worked on some of the most acclaimed games of all time, which is why a lot of gamers are excited to see the developer build a new studio. Some of the hype surrounding Absurd Ventures is based on the hope that it can be as influential to the world of gaming as Rockstar has been and continues to be, with releases likeGrand Theft Auto 6expected to make record sales.
Per areport by GI.biz, Absurd Ventures launched a new studio called Absurd Marin, composed of members of Ascendant Studio’s ex-staff. One of the most notable new Absurd Marin team members is industry veteran Bret Robbins, who has been involved in a catalog of iconic games.Bret Robbins' experience in the game industryincludes roles as tester forGex: Enter the Gecko, extending to Sledgehammer Games' Creative Director during development forCall of Duty: Modern Warfare3 (2023).
Absurd Ventures Launches Absurd Marin
A spokesperson for Absurd Marin told GI that the team includes 20 ofImmortals of Aveum’s core developers, stating that the team plans on expanding its staff. One of the games that Absurd is working on is currently described as “a story-driven adventure title” utilizing fresh IP. This may be exciting news to gamers who are looking to play something entirely new. After plenty of sequels released throughout the last gaming generation, plenty ofnew IPs have been announced by esteemed game developers. With the collective reputation for quality that various members of Absurd Marin have, there is a chance that the games it releases can impress on the same scale.
Absurd Marin is not the only recent studio made up of experienced developers to take a chance on something new, either. Stig Asmussen, who previously directed theStar Wars Jedireleases,left Respawn Entertainment and EA to create Giant Skull. The titles that many of these developers have worked on set high expectations for their new ventures, but fans of these developers' older titles will have to wait to see if their upcoming works live up to that hype.
Immortals of Aveum
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Immortals of Aveum is a single-player first person magic shooter that tells the story of Jak as he joins an elite order of battlemages to save a world on the edge of abyss. With legions of soldiers on both sides of the Everwar, he must uncover the mysteries of Aveum’s troubled past, if there’s any hope for saving its future. Master three forces of magic and unleash spells with deadly skill in a game that defies FPS conventions.Join the order of Immortals, the champion protectors of Lucium, and become Jak, an elite Triarch Magnus.
