[QUOTE="lazyhoboguy"]yea im betting the people bashing free radical are like 13 year olds who just started gaming this generation and never played the timesplitters series. Yes, Haze sucked (havent played it myself) , but every other game made by Free Radical has been great.
A few members did start a new studio. So hopefully, the Free Radical spirit can live on.
CarnageHeart
The campaign modes of the Timesplitters games were never in the same league as Halo (not even Halo 2), Red Faction (even the regrettable RF2 embarrasses TS in terms of the campaign) or even the similarly multiplayer focused SOCOM (the original SOCOM's campaign was terrible, but 2 and 3 boasted solid campaigns).
And any developer that releases a game as garbage as Haze (which I have played) deserves to fail.
Well good for you if you don't like TS' campaigns. That gives you no right to troll in this thread.[QUOTE="UpInFlames"][QUOTE="lazyhoboguy"]yea im betting the people bashing free radical are like 13 year olds who just started gaming this generation and never played the timesplitters series.MAILER_DAEMON
And proud of it.
That's not cool man. Not cool at all. That would be like me saying I'm proud to have never played Crysis or Half Life (though I happen to like the HL games) and think that everyone who plays and likes those games are fools. Some of us happened to like the console-****FPS that Goldeneye started and TimeSplitters continued.*applause*
As anyone else seen this?
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171987 It seems not all of Free Radical is over.
According to employees, the TimeSplitters developer remains open for business and there is still hope that a solution can be found for its woes.
An employee who wishes to remain anonymous wanted to set things straight to 1up. They said that contrary to reports, "Free Radical has *not* closed. There's still a skeleton crew of guys staying on maintaining business as usual, and nobody's been formally made redundant." It is believed that about 20 staff members are manning the fort in the company's four office buildings in Nottingham, with the remaining 160 or so being asked to stay at home.
The team remain hopeful that a solution can be reached and everything will be back to normal in the new year. Our source repeats, "They're not closed. The intention is, going forwards, that hopefully the skeleton crew can shock things back to life in the new year and things can ramp back up from there. But they are *not* out of business."
Free Radical went into administration on December 18. Administration is a process in the UK that a company which has become insolvent can choose instead of liquidation to continue running the business. The administration company acts in the interest of creditors and attempts to rescue its charge. ReSolve, the administration company tasked with rescuing Free Radical commented that it was "very confident" that a buyer could be found for the business if a decision is made to sell.
Officially, Free Radical Design is currently working on two games--TimeSplitters 4, and a secret LucasArts project rumored to be Star Wars Battlefront III (and also rumored to have been turned over to other UK dev Rebellion instead). However, our source implies that there may be more projects underway which have not yet been announced. They told 1up, "There's a number of cool projects in development--two of which are getting quite a lot of publisher interest already." It is not known if TimeSplitters 4, which the company has been working on for over a year, is one of these.
Some hope left for Timesplitters 4.
ASK_Story
*starts crying* YES! There is hope for the best in the FPS biz.
[QUOTE="ASK_Story"]Oh okay, thank the gaming gods.Thanks indeed.As anyone else seen this?
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171987 It seems not all of Free Radical is over.
According to employees, the TimeSplitters developer remains open for business and there is still hope that a solution can be found for its woes.
An employee who wishes to remain anonymous wanted to set things straight to 1up. They said that contrary to reports, "Free Radical has *not* closed. There's still a skeleton crew of guys staying on maintaining business as usual, and nobody's been formally made redundant." It is believed that about 20 staff members are manning the fort in the company's four office buildings in Nottingham, with the remaining 160 or so being asked to stay at home.
The team remain hopeful that a solution can be reached and everything will be back to normal in the new year. Our source repeats, "They're not closed. The intention is, going forwards, that hopefully the skeleton crew can shock things back to life in the new year and things can ramp back up from there. But they are *not* out of business."
Free Radical went into administration on December 18. Administration is a process in the UK that a company which has become insolvent can choose instead of liquidation to continue running the business. The administration company acts in the interest of creditors and attempts to rescue its charge. ReSolve, the administration company tasked with rescuing Free Radical commented that it was "very confident" that a buyer could be found for the business if a decision is made to sell.
Officially, Free Radical Design is currently working on two games--TimeSplitters 4, and a secret LucasArts project rumored to be Star Wars Battlefront III (and also rumored to have been turned over to other UK dev Rebellion instead). However, our source implies that there may be more projects underway which have not yet been announced. They told 1up, "There's a number of cool projects in development--two of which are getting quite a lot of publisher interest already." It is not known if TimeSplitters 4, which the company has been working on for over a year, is one of these.
Some hope left for Timesplitters 4.
allnamestaken
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