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 below its umbrella. The studio, known as Absurd Marin, comes with a beginning employees 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 a complete barrage of different fascinating issues, and, for the million causes unlucky issues like this will occur, did not ship the gross sales the pretty lofty finances 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 in regards to the recreation itself, wished to see.
Now, Immortals’ director and Ascendant co-founder Bret Robbins can be main Absurd Marin (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz), which is made up of “about 20 builders from the core group behind Immortals of Aveum” as of writing, and can be engaged on a “story-driven journey recreation”.
As of proper now, the sport sounds prefer it’s within the early phases of improvement, and subsequently hasn’t has its identify introduced. It is separate from the sport that Absurd Ventures itself is engaged on, which relies on a universe known as A Higher Paradise, the identical identify you will discover on a 12-part audio collection Absurd has been engaged on.
Again in Might, some job listings probably supplied a greater thought of what that recreation from the principle Absurd studio would possibly vaguely seem like or contain, although the corporate’s in any other case stored it fairly below wraps to this point.
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.
“Not in years have I seen a recreation thrown out to die as onerous as Immortals of Aveum,” our personal Connor Makar wrote in his evaluation of Immortals, “Developed by Ascendant Studios, it is a recreation that hopes to mix some good ol’ usual 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.”
