11th December 2023, 1:45 PM
That was a terrible and insulting pun to all involved. Sorry about that.
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/12/fr...-shut-down
Embracer Group, a company with a name that sounds as ominous as "Umbrella Corp", bought and have now shuttered Free Radical. Maybe they couldn't quite catch the gaming world on fire the way Goldeneye and Perfect Dark did, but Time Splitters 2 is still a good game in it's own right and the series as a whole was pretty entertaining for what it was. Look, they haven't pumped out much of anything, but it's still a shame to see them close down like this, with all their IP owned by some giant megacorp instead of being able to hold onto it themselves or even make it public domain. Seriously what's Embracer going to do with it? Their name means "holding on" after all, they aren't ever going to use the IP but they will NEVER give it up either, JUST in case there's some online brief burst of nostalgic popularity they think they can cash in on at some point down the line.
https://www.purexbox.com/news/2023/12/fr...-shut-down
Embracer Group, a company with a name that sounds as ominous as "Umbrella Corp", bought and have now shuttered Free Radical. Maybe they couldn't quite catch the gaming world on fire the way Goldeneye and Perfect Dark did, but Time Splitters 2 is still a good game in it's own right and the series as a whole was pretty entertaining for what it was. Look, they haven't pumped out much of anything, but it's still a shame to see them close down like this, with all their IP owned by some giant megacorp instead of being able to hold onto it themselves or even make it public domain. Seriously what's Embracer going to do with it? Their name means "holding on" after all, they aren't ever going to use the IP but they will NEVER give it up either, JUST in case there's some online brief burst of nostalgic popularity they think they can cash in on at some point down the line.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)