Absurd Ventures, the corporate fashioned by longtime Rockstar mainstay Dan Houser a couple of years in the past, has introduced that it is fashioned a recent studio beneath its umbrella. The studio, known as Absurd Marin, comes with a beginning workers of a number of former builders of Ascendant Studios’ ill-fated Immortals of Aveum.
Yep, that is the Immortals of Aveum that got here out final 12 months amid an entire barrage of different fascinating issues, and, for the million causes unlucky issues like this may occur, did not ship the gross sales the pretty lofty price range the execs had pencilled in for it led them to count on. This was adopted by some layoffs at Ascendant, which clearly nobody with sense, irrespective of how they felt concerning the sport itself, wished to see.
Now, Immortals’ director and Ascendant co-founder Bret Robbins shall be main Absurd Marin (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz), which is made up of “about 20 builders from the core workforce behind Immortals of Aveum” as of writing, and shall be engaged on a “story-driven journey sport”.
As of proper now, the sport sounds prefer it’s within the early phases of growth, and due to this fact hasn’t has its title introduced. It is separate from the sport that Absurd Ventures itself is engaged on, which is predicated on a universe known as A Higher Paradise, the identical title you may discover on a 12-part audio collection Absurd has been engaged on.
Again in Might, some job listings doubtlessly provided a greater thought of what that sport from the primary Absurd studio would possibly vaguely seem like or contain, although the corporate’s in any other case saved it fairly beneath wraps to date.
Even when we’ll most likely wait some time for more information about it, it is good to see some Immortals devs being given an opportunity to have a crack at making one thing else after Ascendant laid off “about 45%” of its workforce this time final 12 months, following its magic shooter being described by one ex-Ascendant worker as a factor that nobody purchased.
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“Not in years have I seen a sport thrown out to die as arduous as Immortals of Aveum,” our personal Connor Makar wrote in his assessment of Immortals, “Developed by Ascendant Studios, it is a sport that hopes to mix some good ol’ original FPS motion with some slick spell-slinging. An fascinating pitch for positive, however sadly not one which manifests itself in an particularly exhilarating style. Immortals of Aveum is a middling journey, which simply so occurs to be releasing at a time when a number of industry-shaking video games are releasing.”
