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In an announcement today, THQ Nordic (THQ Nordic’s fully owned subsidiary Koch Media, who own Deep Silver), have acquired the rights to the TimeSplitters franchise and Second Sight.
Announcement in full
They were working on a TimeSplitters 4, but because of an a series of unfortunate events related to their deal with Lucas Arts on developing Star Wars Battlefront III, the studio went bust. They were later bought by Crytek, again a series of very unfortunate events and shady happenings happend (Crytek UK (Former Free Radical Design) were not paid and shut out of their offices by Crytek.
They were later sold to Deep Silver (Shenmue III publisher) and renamed to Dambusters Studios. Crytek - until now - retained the rights to the TimeSplitters franchise and stated that they would not be working on a new game.
For me, TimeSplitters not getting a re-release, sequel etc. was just like Shenmue. These two franchises were the ones I have wanted the most and longed for. And now, in the midts of getting Shenmue re-release and Shenmue III, we might see a re-release of TimeSplitters AND TimeSplitters 4. I'm so happy ?
Announcement in full
For anyone not familiar, TimeSplitters was a FPS series developed by Free Radical Design, who were in turn formed by former Rare developers who worked on famed shooter Goldeneye.Timesplitters was largely considered as one of the most influential console games of the early 2000’s. The three game series earned a large and passionate fan base thanks to its unique humour, art style and pop culture references while encouraging customization and modification to give each person their own individual experience. Timesplitters was originally created by the development studio Free Radical Design that later become Deep Silver Dambuster, part of the THQ Nordic group.
In addition to Timesplitters, the IP and the rights to science fiction action-adventure game Second Sight were acquired. Both acquisitions were made through THQ Nordic’s fully owned subsidiary Koch Media GmbH.
They were working on a TimeSplitters 4, but because of an a series of unfortunate events related to their deal with Lucas Arts on developing Star Wars Battlefront III, the studio went bust. They were later bought by Crytek, again a series of very unfortunate events and shady happenings happend (Crytek UK (Former Free Radical Design) were not paid and shut out of their offices by Crytek.
They were later sold to Deep Silver (Shenmue III publisher) and renamed to Dambusters Studios. Crytek - until now - retained the rights to the TimeSplitters franchise and stated that they would not be working on a new game.
For me, TimeSplitters not getting a re-release, sequel etc. was just like Shenmue. These two franchises were the ones I have wanted the most and longed for. And now, in the midts of getting Shenmue re-release and Shenmue III, we might see a re-release of TimeSplitters AND TimeSplitters 4. I'm so happy ?