Free Radical Shuts down!

[CockroachMan]

Free Radical, english game developer, owner of the Time Splitters franchise and more recently, Haze, closed it's doors today. Employees found their offices in Nottingham locked this morning and the suspicious was confirmed. Free Radical is no more

Free Radical's last game, Haze, was widely received as a mediocre game, but the company was working on a follow up for their popular TimeSplitters franchise and rumored to be working on a Star Wars: Battlefront game for LucasArts.

Sources say that the company recently lost the development deal for the LucasArts project, something that could have led to this end of year shut down.

source: http://kotaku.com/5113037/free-radical-shuts-down

 

[sean0007]

That sucks, hopefully a big developer will pick up the Timesplitters franchise, I loved those games.

Edit: Lack of commas

 

[ganons]

we need the actual coders and designers from that team to continue

 

[Gaisuto]

Well, Timesplitters was a great series while it lasted.

 

[Celice]

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

TimeSplitters was an awesome series, with even better multiplayer. If memory serves, they were also working on a game for another company too. Hopefully they're picked up somewhere else, 'cause it'd be a shame if they all die off, leaving their game style (Goldeneye everywhere) to the dirt. If so, let's not hope they go the route of Rare and deserve to be put out.

 

[Ferrariman]

Aww shit.

 

[hankchill]

Aww shit.

A valuable post of the utmost quality. This thread could not exist if it was not for that comment.
[/sarcasm]

Back to reality

It is a shame that Free Radical just all of a sudden dropped the bomb. Timesplitters is probably one of the only few FPS's that I enjoyed playing through, and the only one my wife would play with me. They will be missed

 

[Gaisuto]

Aww shit.

A valuable post of the utmost quality. This thread could not exist if it was not for that comment.
[/sarcasm]

Well that was my initial reaction too, and it's more than one word.

 

[Maikel Steneker]

That sucks really hard.. The Timesplitters games were awesome, and I was really looking forward to Timesplitters 4.

Now Rare has to become good again

 

[DeMoN]

This was pretty much inevitable following Haze's failure.

 

[Trolly]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

:'( Goodbye TimeSplitters 4 and Star Wars Battlefront 3.
I'm assuming Battlefront 3 will be finished by another team or LucasArts itself, but TimeSplitters 4? Damn the recession

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[FAST6191]

Damn, while I could not care less about timesplitters (tried it many times without success) I did quite like Second Sight which I believe they also did.

 

[shadow1w2]

Dang, was really looking forward to the next timesplitters for the Wii. Would give the Conduit a run for its money. Good graphics or not.

Oh well, hopefully the timesplitters team will get picked up by someone.

 

[Vague Rant]

I thought Second Sight was great also, and always meant to try TimeSplitters. Come to think of it, Second Sight would have made for an awesome Wii port.

 

[Trolly]

Hm, seems the company are currently in administration, and not entirely closed down. However, quite a few employees have jumped ship already, and chances are they'll close down anyway.