Simply Friday, we introduced you phrase that Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser’s new outfit, Absurd Ventures, was creating an open world action-adventure sport. In an intriguing flip, IGN turned up some new data on the in-development title, suggesting that regardless of the subsequent sport from the GTA 5 and Crimson Lifeless Redemption 2 author is, it seems to be like it’ll happen in an expanded sci-fi universe.
Recognizing that Absurd Ventures had introduced a launch date for the primary quantity of its sci-fi sequence, A Higher Paradise, it looks like the sci-fi universe through which it takes place might be the setting for the studio’s upcoming sport. Out tenth June, the audio fiction sequence tells the story of “the ill-fated growth of an bold however addictive digital game-world mission led by inventor and psychologist Dr. Mark Tyburn”.
Buried additional within the press launch, it was revealed that: “Along with launching Quantity One of many A Higher Paradise audio sequence, Houser, Lazlow [Jones], and the Absurd Ventures workforce are in varied phases of growth on a number of initiatives set within the A Higher Paradise universe, together with further audio fiction seasons, in addition to tv and online game titles.” IGN has confirmed with a supply that the in-development open world action-adventure sport is within the A Higher Paradise universe.
It sounds fairly cool, and we won’t assist however get excited on the prospect of one thing so completely different from a storyteller like Houser. The outline for A Higher Paradise describes the undeniably evocative setup: “Because the superior software program they developed started delivering sudden and disturbing outcomes, the workforce fell aside beneath unusual circumstances, and the mission was deserted. The sport world and the super-intelligence inside have been discarded, dormant, and undiscovered. Till now.”
