Published on 20 May, 2021
After 16 years, we re finally going to see a new TimeSplitters game. This morning, publisher Deep Silver announced they re reforming TimeSplitters studio Free Radical Design, with key original members returning to work on a new entry in the time-travelling shooter series. There hasn t been a new TimeSplitters since Future Perfect in 2005, which, admittedly, is the only one I ve played. I d happily see more of it, though we ll likely be waiting a while before any newness appears. We have been working on plans to bring the TimeSplitters franchise back to life, and are pleased to let you know that we are setting up a new Deep Silver development studio to do just that, Deep Silver tweeted. Free Radical Design is reforming and will be headed up by industry and TimeSplitters veterans, Steve Ellis and David Doak.
New TimeSplitters game on the way from a re-formed Free Radical team
Well, there’s some good news to start your day. A new TimeSplitters game is in the works with heaps of the original creators on board to shape it. Deep Silver has taken to Twitter to confirm the news, sharing that a new studio has been created to take on the project.
“You asked and we listened,” Deep Silver tweets. “We have been working on plans to bring the TimeSplitters franchise back to life, and we are pleased to let you know that we are setting up a new Deep Silver development studio to do just that. Free Radical Design is re-forming and will be headed up by industry and TimeSplitters veterans, Steve Ellis and David Doak.”
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The TimeSplitters series is officially returning. Publisher Deep Silver announced Wednesday that a new game in the time-traveling shooter series is in development at newly reformed Free Radical Design, the original studio behind the TimeSplitters games.
Free Radical Design founders Steve Ellis and David Doak, programmers and designers of the original
TimeSplitters and co-directors of 2005’s
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect, have reunited to rebuild the studio. Ellis joined THQ Nordic, now known as Embracer Group, in 2019 “to help plot the future course for [the TimeSplitters] franchise.”
“To finally be able to confirm that the studio has been formed and that we have a plan for the next