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Back in 2021, Free Radical Design was brought back from the dead to work on a new Timesplitters game. Today, the industry has been hit with more layoffs as news trickles out that Free Radical Design h ...
Free Radical Design, the Nottingham, UK-based studio that had been working on a revival of the PS2-era TimeSplitters franchise, has shut down. “Today, we have to confirm the official closure of ...
T his week, as part of an enormous round of cuts at Microsoft, the company closed down The Initiative and cancelled the ...
Free Radical Design opened its doors in April 1999 and went on to develop the cult-classic TimeSplitters trilogy. The studio faced bankruptcy in 2008 after releasing the PS3-exclusive first-person ...
Free Radical Design, the company tasked to create a TimeSplitters reboot, has closed its doors. Additionally, the developer’s official website now redirects to a 404 error, along with text ...
“Free Radical Design was a hub of creativity, but sadly, we join an ever-growing list of casualties in a broken industry where entire studios are treated as replaceable cogs in a soulless ...
For Steve Ellis, co-founder of Free Radical Design, the game's cancellation and studio closure was seemingly enough to deter him from ever being involved in TimeSplitters ever again.
Image: EA Games. In yet another blow to the gaming industry, VGC has reported that Embracer Group may soon be closing the Nottingham-based UK studio Free Radical Design. The team was reformed back ...
My final day at Free Radical Design," senior artist Mark Normington wrote on his LinkedIn page. "It sees myself and just over 80 people out of work at the worst time of year for it to happen." ...
One element of Free Radical Design 2.0 that was quite traditional was the fact it was an in-office developer. "Personally, [remote working] is great, but trying to get a new team of graduates to ...
Art work reportedly taken from Free Radical Design's unreleased TimeSplitters game has popped up online. As developers made redundant by the studio begin to update their online portfolios, fans ...
Free Radical Design, a studio reestablished to revive the long-dormant TimeSplitters series, was officially shut down by its parent company, Plaion, due to the ongoing financial struggles faced by ...