Absurd Ventures, the company formed by longtime Rockstar mainstay Dan Houser a few years ago, has announced that it’s formed a fresh studio under its umbrella. The studio, called Absurd Marin, comes with a starting staff of several former developers of Ascendant Studios’ ill-fated Immortals of Aveum.
Yep, that’s the Immortals of Aveum that came out last year amid a whole barrage of other interesting things, and, for the million reasons unfortunate things like this can happen, didn’t deliver the sales the fairly lofty budget the execs had pencilled in for it led them to expect. This was followed by some layoffs at Ascendant, which obviously no one with sense, no matter how they felt about the game itself, wanted to see.
Now, Immortals’ director and Ascendant co-founder Bret Robbins will be leading Absurd Marin (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz), which is made up of “about 20 developers from the core team behind Immortals of Aveum” as of writing, and will be working on a “story-driven adventure game”.
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