deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) Daniel Houser has "potentially" entered back into either game development or has spun this off as his personal investment arm in the games industry. Regardless the weirdly named "Absurd Ventures In Games LTD" was incorporated on 23 of June 2021. Name would suggest its likely an investment arm but business activity was incorporated under "62011 - Ready-made interactive leisure and entertainment software development". Also listed himself as Producer and Creative Director. Before anyone gets too excited, it's still to early to know motives, as its currently incorporated under his secretary's office and could just sit as a shell/holding company for now. Who knows currently? haha Was debating whether to post as its so early and the actual purpose is unknown but people would of probably found out soon enough. Absurd Ventures in Games Thanks to @Len Lfc for always cross examining for me! Edited July 1, 2021 by deadasdisco shaqqy10, Crateman, ArthurMorgan00 and 34 others 35 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Lfc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Just me or does "Absurd Game Ventures" sound familiar, too? lol Anyway, this will be very interesting to track and see what happens in the future. D T, JE77, Starbeth and 13 others 2 9 2 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthur Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 This is very interesting, great find! But this is gonna lead to some crazy conspiracies for sure. Who knows, maybe he's going the Leslie Benzies path, creating his own new game? Can't wait to find out American Venom, Len Lfc, MaccerKuntPaul and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) On 7/2/2021 at 3:14 AM, Orthur said: This is very interesting, great find! But this is gonna lead to some crazy conspiracies for sure. Who knows, maybe he's going the Leslie Benzies path, creating his own new game? Can't wait to find out Hoping to avoid conspiracies as much as possible hahah Edited July 1, 2021 by deadasdisco Len Lfc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Lfc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 The wisest course of action is just to wait for official news and see what happens. Speculation is cool and exciting. But, it might not always be as it seems at first glance. I'm reminded of George Lucas moving away from making big movies like Star Wars and 'retiring' to make movies that "nobody will watch". maybe, if this is as accurate as we think so far, maybe Dan wants to make some smaller games, after years of making massive AAA experiences. Orthur, DeltaV20, GEETEEAYEE and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Honestly sounds more like an investment/holding thing to me than a real company. He does have a sh*t ton of money after all, and it's a good way to play around taxes by having a "company" to assign investments to. Starbeth, deadasdisco, LowTierDude and 7 others 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthur Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/1/2021 at 10:46 PM, deadasdisco said: Hoping to avoid conspiracies as much as possible hahah Yea haha but only a matter of time before someone posts this on Reddit or maybe someone makes a clickbaity article with it. And then the crazy theories can't be stopped unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 3:20 AM, Spider-Vice said: Honestly sounds more like an investment/holding thing to me than a real company. He does have a sh*t ton of money after all, and it's a good way to play around taxes by having a "company" to assign investments to. Yeah for now it seems like it enters more into that territory, or possibly consulting. We'll see soon enough though haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Also he/his secretary put a whole pound into the "company". Each share (100) is worth £0.01 per the PDF in there. This looks like an investment placeholder so he can use all that money and invest on things via that "company". I remember Benz had a bunch of gaming stuff assigned to him already when BARB was discovered, like a VR company, "Royal Gaming Circus", etc. We'll see. But people are going to conspire anyway. Zapper, jonnhy_xv, Orthur and 8 others 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Lfc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Yeah, my initial thought was "1p Shares!? I should invest now!!!" lmao deadasdisco and Mainline421 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) On 7/2/2021 at 3:25 AM, Spider-Vice said: Also he/his secretary put a whole pound into the "company". Each share (100) is worth £0.01 per the PDF in there. This looks like an investment placeholder so he can use all that money and invest on things via that "company". I remember Benz had a bunch of gaming stuff assigned to him already when BARB was discovered, like a VR company, "Royal Gaming Circus", etc. Yeah I noticed that, but BARB started like this, incorporated under a different name, with a name change later on and £1 shares on issue. I think allocation of more shares once capital was involved to. Only difference is it incorporated with more directors. Edited July 1, 2021 by deadasdisco Len Lfc, DeltaV20 and Orthur 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/1/2021 at 6:31 PM, deadasdisco said: incorporated under a different name, with a name change later on Correct, but by that time it was already associated with a bunch of other gaming stuff the Benz had registered or gotten involved with. Royal Gaming Circus, (whatever it was) VR and more were found before "Everywhere" became BARB IIRC. A matter of waiting, really. DeltaV20, Len Lfc, deadasdisco and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 3:32 AM, Spider-Vice said: Correct, but by that time it was already associated with a bunch of other gaming stuff the Benz had registered or gotten involved with. Royal Gaming Circus, (whatever it was) VR and more were found before "Everywhere" became BARB IIRC. Yeah you might be right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orthur Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) I wonder what will happen if it turns out to be a game company, though. Without a doubt the story will be awesome, although he was not the only writer at Rockstar. Edited July 1, 2021 by Orthur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaV20 Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/1/2021 at 10:20 PM, Spider-Vice said: He does have a sh*t ton of money dude bought a 16m house last year H-G, Orthur, saturnz and 2 others 2 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 3:38 AM, DeltaV20 said: dude bought a 16m house last year Dudes glitching Take Two servers IRL. Orthur, Zapper, Starbeth and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Don't want to over-speculate, but I sure do hope this is the start of him making a writing return, Rockstar-related or not. KogaClaws, Crateman, JE77 and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Lfc Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Are we all ready to be hurt again? TheWhiteHat, GTK0HLK, H-G and 7 others 2 1 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Here's something of interest - the name "Ventures" might say it all - investments instead of a game company. Epic Games did something very similar earlier this year: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13352714 You can see it's from Epic by looking at the "company's" personnel, it's the Epic Games CFO. This was filed shortly after Epic Games announced a large investment in their long-term vision for their metaverse: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/announcing-a-1-billion-funding-round-to-support-epics-long-term-vision-for-the-metaverse To me, it looks more like an investment front than a new games company, especially seeing that Epic entry in the Companies House, very similar to Dan's. Kirsty, Orthur, RedDeadRus and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) The business was registered in the US back in February (17/02/21). Edited July 1, 2021 by Kirsty deadasdisco, JE77 and Len Lfc 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) On 7/2/2021 at 4:11 AM, Spider-Vice said: Here's something of interest - the name "Ventures" might say it all - investments instead of a game company. Epic Games did something very similar earlier this year: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/13352714 You can see it's from Epic by looking at the "company's" personnel, it's the Epic Games CFO. This was filed shortly after Epic Games announced a large investment in their long-term vision for their metaverse: https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/announcing-a-1-billion-funding-round-to-support-epics-long-term-vision-for-the-metaverse To me, it looks more like an investment front than a new games company, especially seeing that Epic entry in the Companies House, very similar to Dan's. Slowly seems like it, his US arm is registered to his home currently, which I won't post. Edit: Timing haha Edited July 1, 2021 by deadasdisco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) It's not his home. It's a "Delaware Company" much like T2 are. I think it's a tax thing too. Edit: Investopedia on this Edited July 1, 2021 by Spider-Vice Len Lfc, deadasdisco and Kirsty 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Good luck to him anyway, make that bank, Dan! deadasdisco and Spider-Vice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 (edited) On 7/2/2021 at 4:24 AM, Spider-Vice said: It's not his home. It's a "Delaware Company" much like T2 are. I think it's a tax thing too. Edit: Investopedia on this I used a different site which is my go to for my trading/management info and it directs to California Secretary of State and where it was filed. Interestingly Saad Zaeem is named as Head of Strategy. Sounds like Venture Capital related stuff. Edited July 1, 2021 by deadasdisco Spider-Vice, Kirsty and Zello 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 It very much sounds like this is just an investment front then, even more, and it's something very common among people with a lot of money, and sometimes not only. It helps with taxes as well. I wouldn't rush to say this is a gamedev company at all whatsoever lol. deadasdisco 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirsty Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 (yeah goes without saying that it's best we don't post or share addresses from here, even if the information is out there on the public domain) deadasdisco and Spider-Vice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deadasdisco Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/2/2021 at 4:53 AM, Kirsty said: (yeah goes without saying that it's best we don't post or share addresses from here, even if the information is out there on the public domain) Agree, hope it seemed I was trying to achieve that. Len Lfc and Kirsty 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhettoJesus Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 So I don't really understand how businesses work but is Dan just trying to pay less taxes with this if it's just an investment front? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zello Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 Greatest comeback ever I think it'll be awhile before we hear anything though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider-Vice Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 On 7/1/2021 at 8:28 PM, GhettoJesus said: So I don't really understand how businesses work but is Dan just trying to pay less taxes with this if it's just an investment front? He could be investing in gaming companies like startups or other smaller companies using that front instead of this being an actual game development company. GhettoJesus, Len Lfc and JE77 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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