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    Formerly Free Radical Design, Crytek UK was a console-focused satellite studio for the Germany-based Crytek. The studio was shut down on July 30, 2014.

    Free Radical Layoffs Made Official

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    Edited By jeff
    Free Radical is best known for the TimeSplitters series.
    Free Radical is best known for the TimeSplitters series.
    Though we first heard about Free Radical's financial troubles last week, there weren't many concrete facts out there to go along with it. But an official statement has been issued, and 1UP is reporting that 140 people--around 75 percent of the company's employees--will be let go at the end of this year.

    Emma Boyes has a quote from the company handling Free Radical's financial affairs:

    Speaking to 1UP, Cameron Gunn of administrators ReSolve Partners said, "We made around 140 employees redundant yesterday, effective 31 December (the date up to which they had been paid). We're still trading on with the remaining 40 or so employees, have advertised the business for sale and have received some strong interest."
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    #1  Edited By jeff
    Free Radical is best known for the TimeSplitters series.
    Free Radical is best known for the TimeSplitters series.
    Though we first heard about Free Radical's financial troubles last week, there weren't many concrete facts out there to go along with it. But an official statement has been issued, and 1UP is reporting that 140 people--around 75 percent of the company's employees--will be let go at the end of this year.

    Emma Boyes has a quote from the company handling Free Radical's financial affairs:

    Speaking to 1UP, Cameron Gunn of administrators ReSolve Partners said, "We made around 140 employees redundant yesterday, effective 31 December (the date up to which they had been paid). We're still trading on with the remaining 40 or so employees, have advertised the business for sale and have received some strong interest."
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    #2  Edited By brydello

    That's really too bad.

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    #3  Edited By norton123

    Sucks

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    #4  Edited By thomasmolby

    #norton123

    So did Haze.... but yeah it still really sad...

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    #5  Edited By Legend

    This is sad. :(

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    #6  Edited By brydello

    Yeah, that's really too bad.

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    #7  Edited By OmegaPirate

    Aww come on, Free radical were good!! theres some trash out there that needs to go bankrupt!!

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    #8  Edited By brukaoru

    Hopefully the employees can find work elsewhere.

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    #9  Edited By WilliamRLBaker

    The buisness is for sale? free radical is for sale? come on microsoft! buy them up turn them into another bungie!

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    #10  Edited By John

    Yeah this does suck, but hey, why the hell did they make Haze?

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    #11  Edited By kush

    This is a sad day...but at least they aren't 100% dead.

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    #12  Edited By MeatSim

    Will I ever get to play Timesplitters 4?

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    #13  Edited By lockload

    Release a PS3 exclusive and you will die as a studio free radical and Factor 5 are proof of that..

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    #14  Edited By kush
    lockload said:
    "Release a PS3 exclusive and you will die as a studio free radical and Factor 5 are proof of that.."
    What about Kojima Productions....Insomniac Games? You gotta love fanboys! :P
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    #15  Edited By Captain_Fookup

    Fuck if I didn't spend all my hard earned monies on hookers and blow I would purchase Free Radical.

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    #16  Edited By Aaron_G

    Sad for those people now jobless.

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    #17  Edited By Doomshine

    "Release a PS3 exclusive and you will die as a studio free radical and Factor 5 are proof of that"

    Yeah, the fact that they were bad games had nothing at all to do with it....

    Games this gen are expensive, a really bad game can be disastrous.

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    #18  Edited By Dreamfall31

    So does this mean no Time Splitters 4??

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    #19  Edited By Arkthemaniac

    Damn, dude. This simply sucks.

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    #20  Edited By JoelTGM

    merry christmas...? :(

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    #22  Edited By gunswordfist

    75%?!! That's horrible. I hate to see this happen to my favorite game company for FPSs.

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    #23  Edited By gunswordfist
    OmegaPirate said:
    "Aww come on, Free radical were good!! theres some trash out there that needs to go bankrupt!!"

    Yeah Secret Level needs to die ASAPWilliamRLBaker said:
    "The buisness is for sale? free radical is for sale? come on microsoft! buy them up turn them into another bungie!"
    Yeah if MS buys FR then they can reform Old School Rare AKA the best game company of all time.
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    #24  Edited By Wildfire570

    Well all I can say is good luck to those poor guys! I sure hope they can find work soon.

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    #25  Edited By Zinc

    That sucks hard.

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    #26  Edited By Mooshu

    Sure Haze wasn't that great, but those time splitter games were pretty good.

    It's sad to see them in this situation.

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    #27  Edited By Jared

    That really sucks, especially right during the holidays. It's not a good time for any business right now, things will pick up though.

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    #28  Edited By Simsfreak14

    Looks like the end of Free radical...

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    #29  Edited By MKO619

    Its sad but they should of made Haze actually good. I mean any game can be good but you just need to put time and effort. Hopefully if their is ever a new timesplitters it will be better

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    #30  Edited By maxszy

    Always sad to see someone lose their job. Even worse right around Christmas. That's rough :(

    Hope those can start to get back on their feet soon!

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    #31  Edited By Two

    Lair- Factor 5
    Haze- Free Radical

    UGH. PS3 exclusives kill developers? Seems like it.

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    #32  Edited By LiquidPrince

    I feel so bad for them.

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    #34  Edited By LiquidPrince
    Two said:
    "Lair- Factor 5
    Haze- Free Radical

    UGH. PS3 exclusives kill developers? Seems like it."

    That's so ignorant. Bad games kill developers. If either Haze or Lair were on all consoles, they would be no less shitty then they are right now.

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    #35  Edited By parrot_of_adun

    Hope someone picks them up and we get the next TimeSplitters (supposedly about a year in developement last week).

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    #36  Edited By AutomaticSnake

    Sucks that so many people lost their job, as for timesplitters i dont care.

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    #38  Edited By Gizmo

    Timesplitters 2 was one of the first FPS games I ever played, that really got me into the genre and probably video-games.
    I would like a new Time-splitters, but I could without one.

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    #39  Edited By citizenkane

    We should all pitch in and buy Free Radical.  We already missed out on Midway.  We can't miss out on another developer going down.

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    #40  Edited By hatking

    I want a "Free Free Radical" shirt.

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    #41  Edited By SSbabel

    That's a bummer, hope they can find a new job in this tuff economy.

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    #42  Edited By ScottEFresh

    I Still LOVE FRD team and wish them well.  HAZE could have been so much more but they executed the ideas terribly.

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    #43  Edited By Pibo47

    They shouldnt have made that shitty game haze. But this is a very sad day indeed. Some people lost their jobs, and that sucks.

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    #44  Edited By pepper_2000

    I wonder what would have happened if Haze was good. Come to think of it I wonder how it was bad, they had long enough to make it.

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    #45  Edited By Old_Snake864

    that sucks :(

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    #46  Edited By theglobe88

    on the free radical official website, it says that a new timesplitters is in development

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    #47  Edited By Qorious

    Wow, too bad for Free Radical. I would love to see how the next Timesplitters game will look like.

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    #48  Edited By TwoOneFive

    after they released that shit Haze, i aint surprised...dude that game fucking blew man. how does a studio recover from that? 

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    #49  Edited By John1912

    They have sucked since they left Rare.  Not too sad to see them go.

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    #50  Edited By gunswordfist

    No, that would just be Rare sucking. Free Radical is great.

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