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Rockstar Games co-founder and former creative director Dan Houser has a new company. Absurd Ventures says it will build stories, characters and worlds across different mediums — including but not limited to video games. The 49-year-old left Rockstar Games in 2020. “Storytelling. Philanthropy. Ultraviolence.” That’s the tagline for Absurd Ventures, which launches with the two-minute video below that shows more than it tells about the company’s creative, abstract and edgy vibe. However, a press release does provide a more…

Dan Houser, a co-founder of Rockstar Games and one of the people behind the creation of series like Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption, has unveiled his new studio, Absurd Ventures. Absurd Ventures Dan Houser was a stalwart figure at Rockstar Games since its founding and had a hand in the creative aspects of pretty much every game in the Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption series, along with other titles like Bully and Max Payne 3. Following an “extended break” following the release of…

Grand Theft Auto 6 is in the news again, with the latest reports suggesting the game could launch as soon as 2024. There are still plenty of unknowns, but with the game's release seemingly coming up at least in the relatively near future, we're looking back at Grand Theft Auto V's own announcement schedule.When did Rockstar first reveal the game? When was the first trailer? How much time was there between announcement and launch? Rockstar is known to be quiet and coy until it's ready to share news. So…

Grand Theft Auto 6 could launch as early as next year. In its latest yearly earnings report, Rockstar Games' parent company Take-Two Interactive shared massive expectations for the fiscal years 2025 and 2026. This translates to a release window starting in April 2024, with the publisher aiming to achieve over $8 billion (about Rs. 65,905 crore) in net bookings by “launching several groundbreaking titles.” While not explicitly mentioned, a report from IGN suggests that a product of the calibre of GTA 6 could be the main…

According to several claims from the gaming industry, the Grand Theft Auto series might be getting its next installment soon. GTA 6 is under development, and reports are Take Two, the parent company of Rockstar Games, will officially announce the new game during its investors call on May 17. Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy is a remastered version of old GTA games and the latest release by Rockstar Games Hip Hop Gamer recently tweeted an incoherent string of sentences, accompanied by a photo with the Take Two CEO…

“We played for three days straight with no notes on the page and no repeats. There were 12 musicians in the room, just listening and responding. It was intense.” In December 2020, the jazz saxophonist Nubya Garcia took part in a marathon London-based recording session to mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Miles Davis’s album Bitches Brew. Also recorded over three days, in New York in 1969 with a group of 13 musicians, Bitches Brew is a sprawling work of jazz, funk and psychedelic rock. Squealing horns battle with…

Surveying the sea of people at his first arena show, Yungblud considers what he’s lost. Pushing sweat-soaked hair from his face, the 25-year-old singer – real name Dominic Harrison – laments being further from his fans than he’s ever been. “I am Yungblud, you are Yungblud,” he says, jumping down to the outstretched arms at the barrier.His sorrow rings true – as the head of a self-styled band of outcasts called the Black Hearts Club, he has attempted to build a fan community based on respect and acceptance. But it could…

GTA: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition is now free from the exclusivity of the Rockstar Store, and available to purchase over at Steam. All three games are Steam Deck compatible, and also have Steam achievements for all completionists out there. According to the press release, the trilogy is also arriving to the Epic Games store "later in January."The games appear in a bundle over at the Steam store, and while they all have individual storefronts, all purchase options redirect you to the trilogy…

Colour, a Red Dead Redemption 2 player who racked up over 6,000 hours on the Stadia version of the game, has been sent a care package by Rockstar to mark the demise of the platform. After much speculation, Google confirmed that the Stadia would be shutting down last September, with the cloud gaming service set to shut up shop today (January 18). After announcing the shutdown, Google confirmed that players would receive refunds for any titles they’d bought via the Stadia store, but didn’t mention the many hours of…

According to an interview with wrestler Tommy Dreamer, ECW had an agreement in place with Rockstar Games to develop a game with it before Acclaim ended up taking the reigns. As discovered by Hard4Games on YouTube (via, VGC), the interview with Dreamer, who was one of ECW’s top talents at the turn of the millennium, sees the wrestler discuss how Acclaim came to develop the game. “Video games were key for your success as a wrestling company, and we had a lot of companies bidding for that game,” he reminisced. “There was a…