Free Radical Design Closes its Doors, Permanently.

[sims]

Source

The employees of the game design company Free Radical arrived to find that the doors leading into their office were locked.

After the poor reviews of Haze and the struggle to find a publisher for Timesplitters 4, the company was forced to close down, permanently most likely.



This really sucks. Timesplitters was my favorite FPS, and I was really looking forward to the fourth.

 

[Todd Khool the Cyborg]

Oh man this stinks!

 

[Kroze]

Wow... the makers of gems such as Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Timeplitters are now all gone...
This saddens me very much so...

 

[super]

What! TimeSpliters was one of my favorite FPS

 

[Alexmonk0]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/administrator-confirms-free-radical-demise

A little more detail on the situation. They are apparently still operating, just at a severly reduced capacity and with no specific publishing deals, so it isn't really looking all that hopeful, that's not to say that all hope is lost, however.

 

[Todd Khool the Cyborg]

I hope they don't go away!

 

[Mikesword221]

Like I said in #srb2fun, I don't suspect there closing cause they didn't give the employees any warning. They would have at least sent a E-mail.

 

[glaber]

Wow... the makers of gems such as Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Timeplitters are now all gone...
This saddens me very much so...

Rare is still around.

 

[Chaos Knux]

Meh, I hear Free Radicals aren't good for your health anyway. *killed in the most insane method possible*

 

[Warpshade]

Meh, I hear Free Radicals aren't good for your health anyway. *killed in the most insane method possible*

*Walks away from Chaos Knux in a disappointed manner*

In my opinion TimeSplitters 2 was better than Future Perfect, although it may just seem that way because of the comparative leap of change between TS and TS2 being more than TS2 and TS:FP. Second Sight was pretty good too.

 

[Kroze]

Wow... the makers of gems such as Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and Timeplitters are now all gone...
This saddens me very much so...

Rare is still around.

Actually Glaber, everyone that worked on those first two titles mentioned left Rare and went to Free Radical to work on Timesplitters in the middle of Perfect Dark's development cycle.
Why do you think Rare all of a sudden started sucking after that and headed in a completely different direction?