Free Radical Entertainment Closed down!!!!

Nottingham's own Free Radical entertainment ( makers of Timesplitters and Haze) has closed down as of today

http://kotaku.com/5113037/free-radical-shuts-down

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!

( i really wanted timesplitters 4)

thats what you get for making Haze. I didnt realize they were Nottingham based. Time splitters was pro, a damn shame. the guys doing halo wars are shutting down soon too.

FUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKK! one of there lead designers (me made several classic TS maps such as mansion) is a lecture of mine. He'll probably have to move now.

Yeah, I too had heard about this, but until it didn't realise that they worked in Notts.
We so should've realised and got to go see their alpha builds of TS4 while we could, eh?

(As a Soc, would've been an awesome trip).

Lots of others closing recently too. Sucks!

To shed a little light, they haven't technically closed down, but what they have done probably does mean the end of any hope for new releases.
http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56531

So here's a new development if anyone is still interested. Free Radical have been bought by none other than Crytek.

...awesome?

haha, the lecture of mine who works/ed for FR is over seeing a project of ours where we have to make a UT2004 map. I said as a joke that we should work in the cryengine so we wouldn't have any polycount restrictions :p