Rockstar is slowly gearing up for Grand Theft Auto 6‘s launch, and because it does so, some new particulars about co-founder Dan Houser’s new sport have been confirmed.
Again in 2020, Houser left Rockstar 22 years after founding the corporate, revealing his new studio Absurd Ventures in Video games the next yr. The corporate was described as offering “ready-made interactive leisure and leisure software program improvement,” and since its announcement, not a lot has been confirmed in the best way of what it is really engaged on. Properly, as noticed by GamesRadar, we do now have some particulars on the studio’s first sport, due to some current job listings. The itemizing for a lead gameplay designer function famous that the function will see the chosen candidate turn out to be “the first imaginative and prescient holder and hands-on contributor for character, controls, and digital camera design in an open world action-adventure sport.”
It additionally makes point out of the function needing to ship “best-in-class fight and third particular person motion throughout a number of sport modes” so it feels like the sport may not simply be a single-player title. Following this, Absurd Adventures introduced its first undertaking, which is not really a sport in any respect, however an audio fiction collection referred to as A Higher Paradise, a sci-fi story “set within the close to future” that “tells the story of the ill-fated improvement of an formidable however addictive digital game-world undertaking led by inventor and psychologist, Dr. Mark Tyburn.”
Absurd Adventures additionally famous within the press launch for this audio collection that it is making video games set inside this universe, writing, “Along with launching Quantity One of many A Higher Paradise audio collection, Houser, Lazlow [Jones], and the Absurd Ventures workforce are in varied levels of improvement on a number of tasks set within the A Higher Paradise universe, together with further audio fiction seasons, in addition to tv and online game titles.” Whether or not the lead gameplay designer function is for a sport set within the A Higher Paradise world or not is not clear, however a sci-fi world could be a superb match for an open world action-adventure sport.
Earlier this week, Grand Theft Auto writer Take-Two narrowed down the discharge date for GTA 6 to someday within the fall of 2025, so whereas Absurd Enterprise’s first sport is probably going nonetheless some time away, the lengthy await Rockstar’s newest does not appear so lengthy anymore.
