When a company goes into administration they will look to sell off any assets the company owns to pay off their debts. This includes intellectual property. If the game is good enough it could still get purchased. I imagine they have already been down this path when trying to find a new publisher, but at the same time any potential buyer may have known they could get it for cheaper from a the liquidators.

Timesplitters is the only FPS I really like and would ever want to own. I sure hope it will be made.

Free Radical shutdown, so who is in control of TS4?

Free Radical doomed by the PS3 (Haze) and the Nintendo Curse?

So if Time Splitters isn't being made by free radical why the hell should we care?

That sucka splitter really does look disgusting, i bet it would look great onscreen

I dont know why, but I love that Eletank.

Have you got any evidence that suggests it was Haze or the PS3 that doomed Free Radical? Haze had an average budget judging by the graphics and it has sold 550K. Too Human which had a far larger budget and has only sold 470K hasn't doomed Silicon Knight. 

i really dont like em sorry

WOW! Those look amazing! I never got to play the first three but now I wish I could play 4! :(

Damn you free radical! Why did you have to make that crappy game instead of this first?!

Silicon Knights was bailed out by the Canadian Government to avoid bankrupcy. Even with Microsoft's monotary support, the commercial failure of Too Human ruined Silicion Knights.

As for Free Radical's Decline. http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2684

Though I'm sure you'll try and play down the game's impact on their downfall. Spin it however you like, there is really no other aspect of the business that can be attributed to their collapse, what other games can you blame this on? And HAZE is an average project you say? So, now any project that isn't a megalith like FFXIII, MGS4, GT5, GTA4 can be written off as small beans and of no consequence to the rise and fall of players in the industry? Even then if the money involved was, to whatever arguable degree, modest it was certainly more than a developer like Free Radical could absorb as a loss thus they shouldn't have gambled in the HD market to begin with. I don't know where you manifested the convenient delussion that any developer with a name worth noting must obviously be a financial behemoth like Sony, Microsoft, EA or Activision.

Western developers are dropping left and right this generation and you would try and act so coiy as to suggest that HD gaming has no part to play in this affair? Are you trying to convince me or yourself? Even if the primary culprit is the economic crash, it is HD gaming that made the industry so vulnerable to such events. Everyone in the HD industry is taking losses and hurting to some degree or another.

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As for this game, simply transfering the rights of a title to another developer does nothing to preserve the integrity of the game. Free Radical was what made its games what they were, not the names of their franchises that can be sold after their liquidation.