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Rockstar's Bully was a hit among players, despite, or maybe due to, being quite different from its golden GTA series, but, sadly, it never got a sequel. Dan Houser, the studio's co-founder and GTA developer, explained why in an interview with IGN at LA Comic Con.
“I think it was just bandwidth issues,” he said (via Insider Gaming). “If you got a small lead creative and a small senior leadership crew, you just can’t do all the projects you want.”
Houser left Rockstar in 2020 and started his own company, Absurd Ventures, where he is "doing two projects with a fairly small team, and it's really trying to think through that. How can we do that and keep them both moving?"
Back in 2023, Absurd Ventures announced two projects: American Caper and A Better Paradise. The first is a graphic novel about two badly damaged American families "in a world of corrupt business," and the second is an "existential suspense thriller", a 12-episode audio fiction series set in the near future.
Rockstar is, of course, working on GTA 6, which has been delayed to 2026: sad, but probably worth it, as analysts predict it will collect $7.6 billion in the first two months after launch.
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