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Avni Yerli, Crytek's Managing Director, states that the Germany based company intends to rehire Free Radical staff...
When 140 of Free Radical Design's staff were made redundant on New Year's Eve last year, things were looking bleak for the studio. At that point, a skeleton staff of 43 people remained at the studio, whose jobs were then secured by the Crytek acquisition of FRD a fortnight ago.
In further good news for the Free Radical team (now renamed Crytek UK), it seems that Crytek is planning on reinstating some of the 140 jobs that were lost when Free Radical first went into administration.
Speaking to 1up, Crytek's Managing Director Avni Yerli could confirm that the German developer plans to restock Crytek UK with at least some members of the former Free Radical team.
"To bring the studio to full production capacity in the near future, we intend to employ further staff and some of the staff made redundant did apply," he said.
Yerli was tight-lipped about the future of Free Radical's Timesplitters 4 project though: "At this early stage we're looking into all possibilities, but it's just too early to say," he commented.
However, he did re-iterate that the Crytek UK studio is key to Crytek's plans to develop on consoles: "Our console plans are no secret - they happened long before we thought of the acquisition of Free Radical. But in the end, the fact that Free Radical is very experienced with console shooters made the deal even more valuable."
So, will Crytek UK be spending its time bringing the Crysis franchise to consoles? Not necessarily according to Yerli, who noted, "Our internal focus is not linked to bringing Crysis to consoles."
There you have it - the plot thickens. It makes us wonder exactly what projects Crytek might have under wraps at this stage. As always, we welcome your thoughts on the comments board below.
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Added:Mon 28th Mar 2011 19:33, Post No: 8
Crysis 2 has now been released so therefore Talk of Timsplitters 4 at Crytek UK must be on the agender. I expect we'll know in a month or 2 what's happening. However, my worry is, Free radical design were renowned for the Timsplitters comedic almost cartoony concept of their games. Crytek is much more into the 'unkown serioussnes' of games and following a set story. Looking at the Crysis series for example. I'm anticipating a Timesplitters game with incredible graphics, but I doubt it'll follow suit to the previous timesplitters games and will almost feel like a totally new game and not another sequel. =/
Added:Tue 25th May 2010 09:55, Post No: 7
I hope that Timesplitters 4 is still in development somewhere at Crytek UK, but I fear that the studio is now dominated by Crysis related projects. After all, Timesplitters hardly fits with the Crytek brand.
Added:Tue 25th May 2010 03:53, Post No: 6
(although it would seem wasteful to bin such a promising project from a much loved series) This is very true....its now 2010...and still nothing...im hoping the next e3 crytek will shock everyone with ts4...also i heard they re-registered the 2005 game timeplitters future perfect and wanted to recreate with hd graphics...soooooooo not sure what the hell is going on with ts4 which im sure was almost finished....future perfect and ts2 are both the greatest fps shooter ever created and i will never forget the good and funny times
Added:Thu 05th Feb 2009 13:45, Post No: 5
CryTek an Free Radical surely has to go down as one of he best partnerships around. The finest PC FPS creators with the finest console FPS creators - just please no Haze 2!
Added:Thu 05th Feb 2009 13:11, Post No: 4
The Crytek/FRD acquisition surely has to be a good move, with Crytek finally entering the console space.
Added:Sat 03rd Jan 2009 10:50, Post No: 3
Hey haze was absolutly crap no matter what system it was on another example of poor next gen developement.Just a pity some game makers spend so much time and money making crap,we all expect top notch games for ps3 and 360 this wont be the only collapse in the present economic climate
Added:Fri 26th Dec 2008 09:59, Post No: 2
well thanks to the contract they signed with sony to make it a ps3 exclusive has cost em big time, maybe a few more developers should take notice the xbox has more users than the ps3 and the 360 is/has more shooters on it than any other console out at the minuit so time splitters could have come out on 360 with guranteed sales topping the same as cod/gears of war ect.
Added:Tue 12th Feb 2008 22:13, Post No: 1
TS4 better friggin sign with microsoft. that would be bomb to play on Xbox LIVE.