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A team of around 20 programmers previously of Ascendant Studios, including its previous chief executive officer, have actually signed up with Dan Houser’s Absurd Ventures to develop a brand-new workshop in San Rafael, The Golden State: Absurd Marin.
In a news release today, Absurd Ventures revealed its brand-new workshop would certainly be led by Predecessor Studios creator and previous video game supervisor on Immortals of Aveum Bret Robbins. The group will certainly service a “story-driven action-adventure” video game that will certainly be different from Absurd Ventures’ various other jobs, which jointly occur in the A Much better Heaven cosmos.
Absurd’s enhancement of around 20 Ascendant staff members follows Predecessor was struck with significant discharges last loss, adhering to the launch of Immortals of Aveum. Virtually half the workshop was release, around 40 individuals overall, as a result of inadequate sales of Immortals of Aveum. At the time, the cuts were claimed to have actually been required to maintain the workshop open. Nevertheless, previously this year, records flowed that nearly all of the remaining staff at Ascendant had been furloughed as well, simply months after Robbins told GamesIndustry.biz that the “tale of Immortals isn’t created yet.”
It is vague whether Ascendant Studios still exists since its chief executive officer and the majority of its staff members have actually apparently proceeded. The workshop and game’s main X/Twitter account’s last post got on August 13. IGN has actually connected to Predecessor Studios for remark.
Absurd Ventures was started by Superstar founder and GTA author Dan Houser after he left Superstar back in 2020, functioning together with radio host and previous GTA author and manufacturer Lazlow Jones. We spoke with Jones back in August regarding the endeavor, including his leave from Superstar, his collaboration with Houser, and just how A Much better Heaven will certainly discover styles of expert system and dependency.
Rebekah Valentine is an elderly press reporter for IGN. Obtained a tale suggestion? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
