UPDATE 14/09/2024: An announcement offered to GamesIndustry.Biz clarifies that Ascendant isn’t simply working with Absurd on a brand new mission. In actual fact, “about 20 builders from the core group behind Immortals of Aveum” will type a brand new studio beneath Absurd Ventures referred to as Absurd Marin.
Bret Robbins will lead this new group, and whereas it’ll start with 20 folks in keeping with the identical spokesperson it would construct from there because the mission necessitates.
The mission being labored on can also 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 that Ascendant will live on in some type, although what that’ll be additionally stays imprecise.
Unique Story:
Immortals Of Aveum developer Ascendant Studios is engaged on a model new mission with Absurd Ventures, the studio based by Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser.
Introduced by Ascendant’s chief government officer Bret Robbins with an announcement printed to Twitter, Robbins says that the group is “becoming a member of forces” with Absurd Ventures on what he identifies as “a model new mission,” although doesn’t present some other particulars.
This new mission appears to be the sole-focus of Ascendant going ahead now, as Robbins says that “the studio shall be going quiet whereas the group transitions into our new mission. We shall be becoming a member of Absurd to start prototyping and planning as we hit the bottom working on the sport’s growth.”
Whereas Immortals of Aveum was not capable of stick the touchdown by way of gross sales and its total vital reception, one factor that everybody agreed on was that it appeared good, and had some robust foundational qualities.
So it’s clear that Ascendant does have various gifted builders on its roster – or a minimum of it did, since practically half the group was laid off following Aveum’s poor launch.
The final we heard concerning Ascendant have been experiences saying {that a} “massive portion” of the workers have been furloughed, which is to say that they’re nonetheless workers members on paper, however usually are not owed any severance.
Hopefully these furloughed builders are actually capable of come again to work at Ascendant in full power on this new mission, in the event that they haven’t already discovered work elsewhere in fact.
Regardless of the case it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what this mission turns into. Absurd Ventures is arguably the studio to observe greater than many of the newly introduced groups in the previous few years.
Houser’s popularity as one of many authentic creatives behind the Grand Theft Auto video games signifies that expectations are extraordinarily excessive for what a brand new studio led by him can produce.
Absurd’s first two introduced initiatives usually are not video games, although extra just lately we noticed a job itemizing affirm its first recreation shall be some form of open-world action-adventure. Maybe that’s the sport Ascendant is engaged on, or perhaps it’s a very new mission all collectively.
Supply – [Ascendant Studios]
