A new shooter is in the making and if that is not big news then the fact that it caries the Crytek name should tell us something. Crytek UK have already started development on a title that they hope will prove to be a "defining game series" for the newly formed studio, and which will focus on both the single player a... |
9 October 2009
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Free Radical has been one of the most popular studios in the UK in recent years, releasing franchises like TimeSplitters, which became quite successful and generated a fair amount of sales all around the world. But it seems that everything went downhill after the company made the PlayStation 3-exclusive title Haze, ... |
13 August 2009
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The gaming industry is a very tough line of work for a lot of small independent studios. It's quite hard to finance the development of a game as a small company, so in a lot of cases studios that show promise are bought by other larger companies that have the resources necessary to finance the development of a w... |
5 February 2009
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Crytek, the developer behind such titles as the original Far Cry and the newly launched Crysis series, seems to have acquired the Free Radical Design studio, which had declared bankruptcy and laid off a lot of its staff a few weeks ago. The United Kingdom-based studio now only has 40 employees and is not continuing a... |
4 February 2009
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Note: The image has been removed due to a legal complaint submitted by Lucasfilm .Free Radical was just the last of the well known studios forced to close down or to severely restrict their activity as the 2008 world wide financial crisis hit the videogaming industry. Most of its employees, who were thought to n... |
6 January 2009
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We live in financially tough times, and it seems that if a company doesn't make a considerable profit these days, its fate won't be very good. We've already seen the recession claim a pretty important gaming studio, as Free Radical, the company behind Haze or Timesplitters, has been shut down, and now,... |
23 December 2008
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Some of you might have heard about the Free Radical development studio, which is based in Nottingham, United Kingdom. Its major works include the pretty popular TimeSplitters series and the recent, but not so well received, Haze first-person shooter. Although the team was set to have a pretty successful future, with ... |
19 December 2008
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More in-depth research on the impact of free radicals and isotopes on aging performed by Russian biochemist Mikhail Shchepinov provided the grounds for a company called Retrotope, formed in collaboration with other heavy-weight scientists, that aims to find a way to slow down aging. Special heavy water could be the a... |
28 November 2008
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New data analysis by scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston indicate that perhaps man is not responsible for the phenomenon of global warming after all, in spite of the international agitation in this sense over the last period of time. Instead, this could just be part of a natural cycle... |
31 October 2008
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Just as I've finished writing about the PS3 losing all of its multiplatform games, this came in: Haze, the new first-person shooter from Free Radical ( also responsible for Time Splitters), will be a Playstation 3 exclusive, but only under the form of a "limited" exclusive. Funny isn't it? Some try as hard ... |
24 May 2007
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