Deep Silver has announced a new development studio has been opened under the publisher. It’s… Free Radical Design.
That’s right, Deep Silver is reforming the original studio that developed the console FPS series TimeSplitters to do just that: make a new TimeSplitters game.
The new Free Radical Design will also be headed by two of its original co-founders, Steve Ellis and David Doak.
“This is an exciting first step in the process,” the announcement post on Twitter reads. “Development on a new game has not yet started and we will update you when we have more news to share.”
Remnants of the former Free Radical team lives on as Deep Silver’s Dambusters Studios, which did Homefront: The Revolution. The alternate-history open-world FPS had mixed reception, but it’s now known to have a playable version of TimeSplitters 2 as an Easter Egg, which fans recently discovered that there’s a cheat code to unlock the full game within the game.
It’s a… radical move, but surely a popular one. The TimeSplitters franchise carried on the console FPS style GoldenEye 007 did (the team was ex-Rare developers) but with its own brand of wit and humour.
This is pretty much early days, but in this timeline, we will for sure hear Sgt. Cortez make lame time pun again sometime in the future.