Former Free Radical Designs devs share TimeSplitters concept art and more
Art work reportedly taken from Free Radical Design's unreleased TimeSplitters game has popped up online.
As developers made redundant by the studio begin to update their online portfolios, fans are getting an inside peek at the untitled game, including concept art, character models, texture packs, weapon designs, gadgets, and more.
The images – curated by The Vault: Free Radical Archive, a wiki that «strives to create a complete archive of information on Free Radical Design's next-generation cancelled titles» – are bittersweet for many, particularly as the fate of the highly-anticipated sequel is not clear.
Art for the untitled TimeSplitters project that Free Radical Design had been working on has started to surface on the internet thanks to former employees.
Credits: Will Brown, Elmo La Mantia, Callum Summers pic.twitter.com/5WFBfiVLcH
Following this week's rumours that Free Radical Design — the studio set up in 2021 specifically to work on a new TimeSplitters game — had been closed, studio owner Plaion (a subsidiary of the beleaguered Embracer Group) finally made the news official.
TimeSplitters fans truly lost out… pic.twitter.com/Pusfe00LY7
Free Radical was founded in 1999 by a number of ex-Rare developers and quickly made a name for itself with the much-loved TimeSplitters FPS series. In 2009, after several difficult years, it was acquired by Crytek, becoming Crytek UK, who then sold it to Deep Silver in 2014, where it became Dambuster Studios — which made this year's Dead Island 2. However, in May 2021, Deep Silver announced it was reviving the Free Radical name and creating a new studio specifically to make more TimeSplitters, with original Free Radical co-founders Steve Ellis and David Doak at the helm.
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