Two years since Rockstar video games co-founder Dan Houser filed a UK trademark for “Absurd Ventures in Video games”, the corporate has launched a web site with the tagline “Storytelling. Philanthropy. Ultraviolence.” There’s an accompanying promotional reel that is at present promoting vibes instead of merchandise, with a promise to “polute minds and injury souls in each medium conceivable.
Absurd Ventures says its dedicated to “constructing narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing tales for a various number of genres, with out regard to medium, to be produced for live-action and animation; video video games and different interactive content material; books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts.”
Clicking round on the location will carry up a watch that follows your mouse cursor, whereas laptop code within the background decodes into ominous messages, however there is not any concrete statements about upcoming tasks or initiatives.
It has been two years of radio silence because the Absurd Ventures trademark was first registered in tandem with an LLC. Who is aware of, perhaps Absurd Ventures is constant within the custom of Rockstar’s tight lipped method to imminent releases, however all this cryptic nonsense will hopefully result in one thing extra substantial than a bizarre music video.
Dan Houser’s contributions to Rockstar go properly past being only a founder—he is credited as a author and producer on a few of Rockstar’s most prestigious releases like Pink Lifeless Redemption 2 and Grand Theft Auto 4. As of now, there’s nothing to go on past the aforementioned sizzle reel and hacker eyeball, however the cynical power feels very a lot in line with Rockstar’s edgy vibe. It will be attention-grabbing to see what these “narrative worlds” wind up being, particularly with such a giant title behind them.
