Wily & Right no Rock Board: That's Paradise

I specifically asked for this to be painted black.

Absurd Ventures co-founders Dan Houser and Lazlow spoke on a panel at the 2026 Tribeca Festival about making open-world video games and interconnected multimedia universes.

Pretty much everyone expects the November launch of GTA 6 to dominate the world of entertainment — indeed that’s one of the reasons we have a September crush of video game releases. But according to the CEO of Helldivers 2 developer Arrowhead, there are two very good reasons why developers shouldn’t be too worried.

You have until March 2027 to brush the dust off.

If Wreckreation 2 can clean up the mistakes the first one made while focusing on being a modern-day Burnout Paradise – with the reasonable caveat that this attempt probably won’t have nearly the manpower or budget behind it that Burnout did in its heyday at EA – then we might have the closest thing we’ve seen yet to a proper Burnout Paradise sequel. That’s the ceiling here.