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Crytek To Acquire Free Radical??? [UPDATE] News

Crytek To Acquire Free Radical??? [UPDATE] News

Rob Yescombe speaks out about the future of Free Radical, with the developer seemingly being acquired by Crytek...

By Gwynne Dixon
Posted: 04/02/2009

Free Radical's in-house script writer, Rob Yescombe, has spoken out about the future of the ailing studio, stating that German developer Crytek has purchased Free Radical Design from its administrators.

This news comes from 1up, with Yescombe reportedly saying, "After seven long weeks of uncertainty, I can confirm that Free Radical is now out of the woods. We've been bought by a really, really good company. I'm so excited I'm lost for words. It's the smoothest deal we've ever done. It all went through quickly, efficiently, fantastically..."

Free Radical's administrators are due to make an announcement about the future of the studio today, so hopefully we'll have official word on this a bit later on. Prior to Yescombe's outburst, British publisher Codemasters was thought to be the most likely suitor for Nottingham-based Free Radical.

Whatever the case, Free Radical would certainly be a good fit for fellow FPS specialists Crytek. Perhaps it can even develop some console games for the creator of the Crysis series at long last. Both studios have been careful to retain the intellectual properties of titles they've developed in the past, rather than leave them in the hands of publishers.

UPDATE: Free Radical's administrator, Resolve Partners, has now confirmed Crytek's acquisition of Free Radical. Speaking to Edge Online, Resolve noted that Crytek had purchased the company at auction as several businesses were interested in the acquisition.

The 43 jobs that remained at Free Radical (after 140 jobs were cut over Christmas) have been secured by the Crytek acquisition.

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	By: SegaBoy 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!
	By: Glyndwr 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.
	By: Anonymous 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
	By: Anonymous 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.
	By: Anonymous 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.