Free Radical Design
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| Subsidiary of Crytek | |
| Industry |
Computer and video games Interactive entertainment |
| Successor | Dambuster Studios |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Defunct | 30 July 2014 |
| Headquarters | Nottingham, England, United Kingdom |
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Key people
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David Doak Steve Ellis Karl Hilton Graeme Norgate |
| Products | TimeSplitters |
| Parent | Crytek |
| Website | www |
Free Radical Design was a British video game developer based in Nottingham, England, United Kingdom, probably best known for the TimeSplitters series and Second Sight. After going into financial administration, it was announced on 4 February 2009 that the studio had been acquired by German video game developer Crytek and would be renamed Crytek UK. Crytek had a good relationship with the city of Nottingham due in part to its sponsorship of the Gamecity festival and its recruitment drives with Nottingham Trent University. In 2014, the studio was shut down and the majority of the staff transferred to the newly formed Dambuster Studios.
Initially, most of Free Radical Design's employees previously worked for the game developer Rare. While at Rare, they (David Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton, Graeme Norgate and Lee Ray) worked on the Nintendo 64 first-person shooters GoldenEye 007 and Perfect Dark. From late 1998 to early 1999, this team left Rare to form Free Radical Design, which was established in April 1999, their first release being TimeSplitters for the PlayStation 2 in 2000. It was known for its very fast-paced gameplay and its particular emphasis on multiplayer rather than story.TimeSplitters attracted attention at the time because of the former Rare employees' work on the critically acclaimed GoldenEye 007. Its sequel TimeSplitters 2 became the highest-ranked first-person shooter on the PlayStation 2.
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