Absurd Ventures

Thank you to the Signal Awards for honoring A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath with the Best Episode of Scripted Audio Fiction award in 2024 for the season finale episode, “I Want Love, Not Dominion”.? ? Big thank you’s as well to our partner QCODE and the amazing cast featuring Andrew Lincoln, Paterson Joseph, Shamier Anderson and Rain Spencer.? ? Stay tuned for details on season 2 of A BETTER PARADISE coming next year ? ? https://lnkd.in/gQ6SVpyg

We are very excited to join forces with Bret Robbins and his team as we begin to work together on one of our original new titles. More details on the new Absurd Marin studio at: https://lnkd.in/gWT4JQGv

IGN: “It started small, just Dan Houser and Lazlow Jones and two dogs in the early days, but Absurd Ventures has grown steadily as work on three(!) different universes, two of which are announced, ramped up. Other former Rockstar developers have joined the team. Something, it seems, is happening here.” Check out Lazlow’s recent chat with IGN about Absurd Ventures, A Better Paradise and more:?https://lnkd.in/gaJUhQKZ We are hiring! See current career opportunities at?https://lnkd.in/g5z6jPW4

Dan spoke with The Ankler about Absurd Ventures’ approach to world-building and storytelling across limitless mediums… “If one of them just stops at the graphic novel or audiobook point, but it’s still good and made with integrity, that’s fine… The end goal is always, always to make cool shit, make the next thing as good as it can be… Part of why we’re doing the company this way is our belief that [gaming and traditional entertainment] are going to continue to meld and cross-pollinate” Full article at: https://lnkd.in/eVfpRkTT

Check out Lazlow Jones’ conversation with Greg Miller about A Better Paradise, Absurd Ventures and lots more on Kinda Funny Gamescast. https://lnkd.in/gE8rJtCN

Thank you to our amazing cast, our partners at QCODE, and everyone who worked on this premiere season of the A BETTER PARADISE audio fiction series for helping us debut at #1 on Apple’s Fiction chart today. The 12-episode series continues all summer long with new episodes on Mondays. https://lnkd.in/geSD4q9q

The premiere of our debut project, the 12-episode audio fiction series A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath is here. Listen to the first two episodes (“Something Is Playing a Game with Me” and “Everyone Tries to Escape from Paradise”) now, with future episodes coming weekly throughout the summer. Follow A BETTER PARADISE on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts to never miss an episode. Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive digital game-world project led by inventor and psychologist Dr. Mark Tyburn. As the advanced software they developed began delivering unexpected and disturbing results, the team fell apart under strange circumstances and the project was abandoned. The game world and the super-intelligence within were discarded, left dormant and undiscovered. Until now. Created and written by Dan Houser. Directed by?Lazlow Jones. Starring Andrew Lincoln, Shamier Anderson, Paterson Joseph and Rain Spencer. Produced in partnership with?QCODE. Listen and Follow on: Apple Podcasts https://lnkd.in/gZpU3NpY Spotify https://lnkd.in/g8XFPWnv Amazon Music https://lnkd.in/gaqwbgxh Audible https://lnkd.in/gXZBHp3Z

Enter the new world from Absurd Ventures with the original audio fiction series, A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath. Coming June 10. Listen to the Official Trailer and follow A BETTER PARADISE on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts, to be among the first to listen. Set in the near future, A BETTER PARADISE tells the story of the ill-fated development of an ambitious but addictive digital game-world project led by inventor and psychologist, Dr. Mark Tyburn. As the advanced software they developed began delivering unexpected and disturbing results, the team fell apart under strange circumstances and the project was abandoned. The game world and the super-intelligence within were discarded, left dormant and undiscovered. Until now.?? A BETTER PARADISE is an expansive new universe created by Absurd Ventures, the new company founded by storytellers behind Red Dead Redemption and Grand Theft Auto. Experience this terrifying new world via the 12-episode original audio fiction series, A BETTER PARADISE Volume One: An Aftermath starring Andrew Lincoln, Shamier Anderson, Paterson Joseph, Rain Spencer and more.? Produced by Absurd Ventures in partnership with QCODE. Follow A BETTER PARADISE at: https://lnkd.in/geSD4q9q https://lnkd.in/gs9_vTdw