Free Radical Shut Down
 

The makers of TimeSplitters from the former Rare employees who created Goldeneye have run out of money and locked out their employees. Rumors indicate that Factor 5 (who are currently producing that Kid Icarus game for Wii) will be following suit possibly by next week.

That's a shame. I haven't played any of their recent stuff but I had a lot of good times with TimeSplitters 2 back in the day.

Loved the Timesplitters games. Haze was a huge misstep.

Hopefully someone will buy them up and get Timesplitters 4 properly going.

They deserve it for Haze.

Sad news. I've never really played much of their stuff, but Time Splitters 2 looked like a lot of fun. Maybe I'll have to track down a copy...

I really hope Factor 5 doesn't close down too. Now THAT would be a sad day.

I'd be sorry to hear about Factor 5...but LAIR....probably didn't do terribly wonderful things for them.

EDIT:
Man, I was just reading that the factor-5 thing was started by a blog post from one of their artists (heres the article i was reading http://www.edge-online.com/news/fact...letes-outburst)
...man...I'd hate to be that guy right now...I work for a game publishing company, and one time an ex-coworker (whom I do not get along with), called the HR department of my company and told them I was posting company confidential information on my myspace page (which i was not) and all HELL broke loose! I had to divulge my history of myspace blogs and everything...it was quite invasive...and I DIDN"T do anything. I Feel for this guy who DID leak info on his blog...he has got to be going through the wringer right now.

Yeah, if Factor 5 goes down, the Wii lineup next year takes a SERIOUS hit. I know the Kid Icarus game is in development. I can't divulge evidence obviously, but I have seen stuff. That, and I couldn't bear to see the guys who brought me all of my favorite Star Wars games tank. Heck, they said there was a chance they were going to release the unseen SNES director's cut of Super Turrican 2 (got canceled back in the day because Nintendo wouldn't allow them to have a large enough cartridge) to the Virtual Console. I hope they make it.

Why the hell doesn't Nintendo just buy them up?

Who cares about a new Kid Icarus game?

Some lameass Nintendo Fanboy, I bet. Someone who took a picture next to a Ninja Turtles arcade machine at a Chuck E. Cheese, perhaps.

Thumbs up!

*ahem*

:lol:

Was Kid Icarus for the NES all that good to begin with?

yeah it's frickin awesome, but hard as hell. pretty much the same thing as Metroid.

This really just makes me think of TMB despite the more obvious conclusion.

Except not at all.

it was released the same year, used the same engine and even had one enemy that was in both games. the basic gameplay is pretty much the same. shoot and explore..

The feel of the games were completely different. Metroid was all exploration as where Icarus Would have you starting at the bottom of a level making your way to the top, then throw you in a dungeon.

GK's right as usual. Kid Icarus really isn't that great of a game, though. It really could benefit from a few balancing issues, and more accurate jumping controls.