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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new company is creating an "open world action-adventure"


Absurd Ventures, the media company founded by Rockstar Games co-founder and creative director Dan Houser following his …

Absurd Ventures was formally unveiled last June, with a mission statement of "building narrative worlds, creating characters, and writing stories for a diverse variety of genres" across mediums including of live-action, animation, games, books, graphic novels, and scripted podcasts. At the time Absurd Ventures referred to them as two "universes" that would begin as a graphic novel and podcast respectively before expanding across a "wide range of formats and platforms". As confirmed toward the end of last year, Rockstar's former vice president of writing Michael Unsworth - who co-wrote both Red Dead Redemption games, and has contributed dialogue to the likes of LA Noire, GTA 4, and GTA 5 - has joined Houser at Absurd Ventures, as has former Rockstar writer and producer Lazlow Jones, who's serving as executive producer at the company.

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