"While many people are excited about the re-mastered version that will arrive via Xbox Live Arcade, I’m still hoping to see a true sequel that will live up to the lineage of the original Perfect Dark."
OXCGN writer looks at the death of yet another development studio, this time Free Radical Design. Those great guys behind the time honoured Timesplitters franchise.
But feel flat on their recent outing, HAZE, which garnered poor reviews from both gamers and the industry. What if they had of simply focused on Timesplitters 4, which had been in production for well over a year, what will happen to the playful shooter of old, will we only see serious shooters lining the shelves from now on?
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"Tiga has expressed its condolences to all the people at Free Radical Design, the Nottingham based independent studio, which reportedly closed its doors yesterday.
Richard Wilson, CEO of Tiga, said: "On behalf of all Tiga members, I would like to say how sorry the whole industry is to hear of the fate of Free Radical Design. The studio has employed some very talented teams developing first class games over the years.""
"In the world of Gaming, 2000 was actually a pretty kick ass year. We were all able to get our hands on the PlayStation 2 and Nintendo sold its 100,000,000th Game Boy system.
Looking Glass Studios (System Shock 2, Thief series) went out of business. Bungie was bought by Microsoft (to the eternal embarrassment of Apple's Steve Jobs, to be sure), and Red Storm Entertainment became the new property of Ubisoft. Volition, the development house behind FreeSpace 2 and Summoner (and later Saint's..."
In the latest gamespot podcast Rob Yescombe said that Free Radical (the same team that is about to release Haze) is already working on 2 projects. One of them being Timesplitter 4 while the other is a secret Lucast Art project. Rumors are that it is Battlefront 3
"Last Month in an interview with Ubisoft CEO, he hinted that the company currently have an exclusive game in development for the playstation 3. However, he refused to give out any details as what game it is exactly.
Fans quickly assumed it was Haze, Haze is anew shooter from Ubisoft and Free Radical(Developers of the Timesplitters series), which puts players in the boots of a new recruit in the privately run Mantel army. Ubisoft quickly debunked that rumor and revealed that, Haze was a only..."
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