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24 Years Ago, The Greatest Vehicular Combat Game Ever Was Lost to GTA III Hype

‘Twisted Metal: Black’ envisioned a bold future for a franchise that didn’t have one. That doesn't mean it's not a worthy — even great — game.

Inverse

Well that didn't pan out: Former Rockstar boss said in 2018 that he was glad not to be releasing GTA 6 in the Trump era, but here we are with GTA 6 releasing in the Trump era

Nobody saw this coming—not even Dan Houser.

PC Gamer

The Next Open World Adventure From GTA Co-Creator Just Revealed Its Colorful Cast

Absurd Ventures' just revealed the first 20 characters of the "Absurdaverse," a peak at the games, shows, and books the company is releasing in the years to come.

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Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's new project looks like nothing special, to be perfectly honest

It's an "original story-driven action-comedy adventure game set in the Absurdaverse".

PC Gamer

Rockstar Games co-founder and GTA 5, Red Dead Redemption 2 writer Dan Houser's new studio shows off its "story-driven action-comedy"

A first look at Absurdaverse

GamesRadar

Trump victory upends Rockstar co-founder's GTA 6 release date prediction

Dan Houser’s worst fears of releasing the new GTA during a Trump presidency that’s ‘beyond satire’ are coming true

Evening Standard

Rockstar co-founder's 6-year-old claim that he was "thankful" not to be launching GTA 6 during a Trump presidency has aged like milk

In 2018, Dan Houser said GTA 6 "would be out of date within two minutes" in Trump's America

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Immortals of Aveum developers find a new home at Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser's Absurd Ventures studio

A "core team" from Ascendant Studios, including founder Bret Robbins, have launched a new studio called Absurd Marin.

PC Gamer

Former GTA and Red Dead Redemption lead is teaming up with Immortals of Aveum veterans to form a new studio and work on an action-adventure game

Absurd Marin follows a bumpy year for Ascendant Studios

GamesRadar

UK’s top 30 richest game developers and content creators revealed

More than a quarter of the gamers and developers on the first Sunday Times Gaming Rich List are under 35, with the average age of the entries being 45

Evening Standard

There May Never Be a GTA Movie and That's Fine, Actually

Grand Theft Auto is a massive, lucrative franchise in gaming. But it would make for a terrible movie.

Inverse

GTA and Red Dead Redemption adaptations never happened because "games made poor-quality movies," Rockstar Games co-founder says, but "it's a different time now"

"What you've described is you making a movie and us having no control," says Dan Houser

GamesRadar

GTA San Andreas used "real gang members" to record voiceover: "We showed them the scripts and they were like, 'we wouldn't say that'"

According to Rockstar Games veteran Lazlow Jones

GamesRadar

Grand Theft Auto 5 creators are back with A Better Paradise, the start of a new gaming universe

The GTA story team’s new release is set in the future and tells how one company’s use of AI leads to its destruction

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After 22 years at Rockstar, former Red Dead Redemption and GTA lead seemingly turns to near-future sci-fi in his new open-world action game

A Better Paradise might just be the start of Dan Houser's new game

Evening Standard

Former Grand Theft Auto head is working on an open world action game

Dan Houser’s studio may be working on a title in a GTA-like sub-genre

Evening Standard

Grand Theft Auto and the female gaze: is this a new era for Rockstar Games?

The studio is one of the most influential in gaming, but controversy has never been far away. As it reaches a landmark anniversary and GTA VI fever begins, we look at their route to the top and ask whether it is time for them to change

Fortune

Rockstar Games forced to release 'GTA VI' trailer after leak

The previous "Grand Theft Auto" game needed just three days to haul in $1 billion in sales, and went on to become the highest-grossing entertainment property of all time.

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Rockstar co-founder and GTA lead writer's new project kicks off with a graphic novel and podcast series, not a video game

American Caper and A Better Paradise begin next year

PC Gamer

Rockstar veterans Michael Unsworth and Lazlow Jones have joined Dan Houser's new studio

We still don't know what Absurd Ventures is up to, but it's putting together quite a team.

GamesRadar

GTA 5 and Red Dead Redemption 2 writer joins Rockstar co-founder's new studio

Lazlow Jones is now part of Absurd Ventures

PC Gamer

In the run-up to the official Grand Theft Auto 6 reveal, Rockstar may have lost one of its most senior writers

Michael Unsworth's credits include Grand Theft Auto 4 and 5, Red Dead Redemption 1 and 2, LA Noire, and Max Payne 3.

TechRadar

Veteran Red Dead Redemption writer leaves Rockstar after 16 years

Long-time Rockstar writer Michael Unsworth has announced that he's leaving the company.

PC Gamer

A departed Rockstar cofounder is finally teasing what's next with a music video and a big ole' creepy eyeball

The ventures are certainly absurd.

GamesRadar

Former GTA and Red Dead lead announces studio dedicated to "weird sh*t from desperate people"

"Finally, an American institution everybody can hate"

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