Tag: Timesplitters
News TimeSplitters PS5, PS4 Rated for Release, PS2 Classic Likely Slated for PS Plus Premium
Blast from the past
Free Radical Design's seminal shooter TimeSplitters looks like it's coming to PS5 and PS4, likely as part of the next phase of PS Plus Premium's classics push. Overnight, ratings for modern platforms appeared on the Taiwanese ratings board, which is good news for fans of the now-defunct developer.
News TimeSplitters Is Officially Coming Back, Developed By Reformed Free Radical Design
The time has come
TimeSplitters is officially, finally, making its grand return. After the IP was procured by Koch Media, the idea of the beloved FPS franchise coming back from the dead was suddenly a real possibility. Now, in a new announcement from publisher Deep Silver, a new entry in the series is officially underway. In a statement shared on...
News You Should Probably Dig Out Your PS4 Copy of Homefront: The Revolution
Full 4K port of TimeSplitters 2 unlocked
There’s a TimeSplitters 2 Easter egg in PlayStation 4 first-person shooter Homefront: The Revolution that many of you will be familiar with: it allows you to play a couple of levels from the legendary PS2 game. But actually, there’s more: it was revealed on Twitter over the weekend that developers...
News TimeSplitters 2 Remake Directly Referenced in PC Game, Turns Out to Be a Joke
Very funny, THQ Nordic
TimeSplitters is one of those series that's held in very high regard by many, but has somehow fallen into obscurity. The games, developed by Free Radical and released on PlayStation 2, are thought to be some of the best console FPS titles ever, with its oddball humour, great controls, and excellent multiplayer making the...
News Koch Media Is 'Exploring Ways to Bring TimeSplitters Back'
Future perfect?
A new TimeSplitters game is very much on the cards -- it seems it's just a matter of how THQ Nordic and Koch Media go about bringing the series back from the dead. The last we heard about TimeSplitters was that its co-creator, Steve Ellis, joined the publisher to work on the return of the series. In a
Steve Ellis is in the building
If there was any doubt about a new TimeSplitters game being in the works, let them be put to rest. Last year, Koch Media, itself owned by THQ Nordic, acquired the IP for the beloved shooter franchise. At the time, it was pretty strongly implied that a new game would be coming sooner or later. Now, in THQ Nordic's...
News Sounds Like It's Time for TimeSplitters 4 as Koch Media Acquires Licence
Future perfect
The TimeSplitters series was beloved back on the PlayStation 2, but it sadly fell by the wayside as Free Radical Design began to struggle. The licence for the franchise has rested with Crytek for some years, but nothing has been done with it, despite vocal fans calling out for it, and even attempting to forge remake themselves...
News TimeSplitters Fans, You Should Probably See This
Spoilers, maybe
'Tis truly the age of nostalgic Easter eggs. Already this month has seen the entirety of Shadow of the Beast stuffed inside, er, Shadow of the Beast and… Well, we probably shouldn't mention the other one by name just yet. But now a couple of levels from TimeSplitters 2 have been included in Homefront: The Revolution. Yes, it's...
Video Is TimeSplitters IV Firing onto PS4 This Year?
Leaked documents suggest so
Studio executives really need to be more careful. Following the accidental unveiling of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag in a coffee shop last year, we’ve laid our grubby fingertips on a Ben 10-branded folder full of top-secret design documents for TimeSplitters IV. The papers reveal plenty about the long overdue...
