Raziel Report post Posted December 18, 2008 Free Radical Shuts Down By Brian Crecente, 9:20 AM on Thu Dec 18 2008, 5,264 views UK developer Free Radical Design, the team behind Haze and the Time Splitters franchise, have closed their doors, apparently permanently, according to a number of inside sources. The sources confirmed to Kotaku earlier reports that employees were locked out of their offices today in Nottingham. A meeting held later in the day ending with the closure of the independent developer, sources say. While the shut down was a surprise to some within the company, it sounds like it wasn't to all. We've heard that some Free Radical Design employees were jumping ship in the week or two leading to today's news. 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. Sad Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Supreme Cmdr Report post Posted December 18, 2008 heh, you beat me to it. I was just about to post one my Another One Bites The Dust posts. http://www.edge-online.com/features/source...dical-locked-up Sad news. Haze was horribly received, so thats probably what did them in. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Raziel Report post Posted February 5, 2009 Free Radical Lives!...Sort of Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
deathbal101 Report post Posted February 9, 2009 NOOOOOOO battlefront was EPIC!!!! same with timeslpitters! devs hint: map editors are awesome Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LizBottomley Report post Posted February 22, 2009 This is a very Sad news. Haze was phenomenal! I hope the rumor about Star Wars: Battlefront game for LucasArts is true. Can't wait! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
