High on Life Series in Development from Curb's JB Smoove

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The chatty gun game High on Life is being adapted into an animated TV series, with Curb Your Enthusiasm’s JB Smoove serving as producer.

Smoove starred in the game High on Life as Gus, one of the game's talking fish/guns, and Deadline reports that there's a “good chance” he'll reprise the role in the upcoming animated series, in addition to producing the project.

High on Life launched in December 2022 for PC and Xbox and was the biggest launch of the year on Xbox Game Pass, but proved controversial even before release after it emerged that the game featured AI graphics and voice acting.

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Just a few weeks after the release of High on Life, Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland, co-founder of the game's development studio Squanch Games, was accused of domestic violence (charges that were later dropped due to “insufficient evidence”). However, Roiland left Squanch and was fired from Rick and Morty by Cartoon Network.

A PlayStation version of High on Life will launch in summer 2023 for PS4 and PS5.

Smoove is now working with Squanch and his production company, Alternate Side Productions, to adapt the series into a Rick and Morty-style series.

“When Squanch Games approached JB Smoove (I like to refer to myself in the third person) to voice a character in their amazing video game High On Life, my first question was: what would my character look like? They told me I would be a shooting fish… which makes perfect sense to me! As a vegan, I think a fish should have the right to defend itself! I mean, right?!” Smoove said.

“And now that I've partnered with Squanch Games and Striker Entertainment to bring the hilarious High On Life to series, it seems inevitable! They invited me to join them in the video game universe, and now I'm helping them enter the world of TV! It's a case of a game recognizing a game! High on Life is wild, weird, and wonderful, and the series will be that and more! Get ready to laugh your way through space with some unforgettable characters like me! We're pumped and ready to go!”

Eurogamer, in its review, was less enthusiastic about High on Life.

“A miserable cocktail of ideas from other action and platform games and the worst parts of Rick and Morty,” wrote Edwin Evans-Thirlwell in his review of High on Life on Eurogamer, calling it “a mediocre shooter with an unfunny attitude problem.”

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