UPDATE 14/09/2024: A press release offered to GamesIndustry.Biz clarifies that Ascendant isn’t simply working with Absurd on a brand new venture. In reality, “about 20 builders from the core crew behind Immortals of Aveum” will type a brand new studio beneath Absurd Ventures known as Absurd Marin.
Bret Robbins will lead this new crew, and whereas it’ll start with 20 folks in accordance with the identical spokesperson it’ll construct from there because the venture necessitates.
The venture being labored on can be one thing model new – not one of many earlier initiatives already underway with Absurd Ventures. GI.Biz identifies it as a “story-driven journey title,” so it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what that finally ends up wanting like.
It’s curious although, as to why Robbins public stays imprecise on the precise particulars of the deal. The title “Absurd Marin” is nowhere to be discovered, and it leaves the concept Ascendant will live on in some type, although what that’ll be additionally stays imprecise.
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Immortals Of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios is engaged on a model new venture with Absurd Ventures, the studio based by Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser.
Introduced by Ascendant’s chief govt officer Bret Robbins with a statement published to Twitter, Robbins says that the crew is “becoming a member of forces” with Absurd Ventures on what he identifies as “a model new venture,” although doesn’t present some other particulars.
This new venture appears to be the sole-focus of Ascendant going ahead now, as Robbins says that “the studio will probably be going quiet whereas the crew transitions into our new venture. We will probably be becoming a member of Absurd to start prototyping and planning as we hit the bottom operating on the sport’s growth.”
Whereas Immortals of Aveum was not capable of stick the touchdown when it comes to gross sales and its general important reception, one factor that everybody agreed on was that it seemed good, and had some sturdy foundational qualities.
So it’s clear that Ascendant does have various proficient builders on its roster – or no less than it did, since almost half the crew was laid off following Aveum’s poor launch.
The final we heard concerning Ascendant have been reviews saying {that a} “massive portion” of the employees have been furloughed, which is to say that they’re nonetheless employees members on paper, however aren’t owed any severance.
Hopefully these furloughed builders at the moment are capable of come again to work at Ascendant in full pressure on this new venture, in the event that they haven’t already discovered work elsewhere after all.
Regardless of the case it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what this venture turns into. Absurd Ventures is arguably the studio to observe greater than a lot of the newly introduced groups in the previous few years.
Houser’s repute as one of many unique creatives behind the Grand Theft Auto video games implies that expectations are extraordinarily excessive for what a brand new studio led by him can produce.
Absurd’s first two introduced initiatives aren’t video games, although extra not too long ago we noticed a job itemizing verify its first recreation will probably be some form of open-world action-adventure. Maybe that’s the sport Ascendant is engaged on, or possibly it’s a completely new venture all collectively.
Supply – [Ascendant Studios]