Raziel Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supreme Cmdr Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted February 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2009 Free Radical Lives!...Sort of Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathbal101 Posted February 9, 2009 Report Share Posted February 9, 2009 NOOOOOOO battlefront was EPIC!!!! same with timeslpitters! devs hint: map editors are awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LizBottomley Posted February 22, 2009 Report Share 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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