TimeSplitters May Return on PS4 and PS5
- TimeSplitters rated for PS4 and PS5 by Taiwanese board.
- Gematsu predicted Octopath Traveler's arrival.
- PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog adds Tomb Raider Legend and more.
- TimeSplitters created by Free Radical Design in 2000.
- Embracer revived Free Radical in 2021, then closed it down.
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All-Time Classic TimeSplitters Looking Likely for PS4 and PS5
The ever-reliable Taiwanese ratings board has rated the game for both PS4 and PS5.
Star Wars By John Walker Published Wednesday 9:30 AM
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The TimeSplitters box art
If you want to know what games are coming up next on PlayStation, you just need to ask the Taiwanese ratings board.
That's Gematsu's brilliant trick that allowed the site to correctly predict the arrival of Octopath Traveler last week.
Now it suggests subscribers to PlayStation Plus are about to finally be reunited with TimeSplitters.
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The PlayStation Plus Classics Catalog really seems to have sprung to life over the last month.
In the middle of June, we saw the arrival of Tomb Raider Legend, Star Wars The Clone Wars, and Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus.
Now it appears the original TimeSplitters will soon be joining them with ratings issued for both PS4 and PS5.
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The classic PS2 launch game TimeSplitters was originally released in 2000.
It was created by the brand new studio Free Radical Design, formed by key figures from studio Rare.
These were the people who had worked on GoldenEye and Perfect Dark, aiming to recreate that magic once more.
In a twist, they succeeded.
The century-spanning multi-protagonist shooter was immediately loved, going on to spawn two more equally adored sequels.
A fourth was in development before everything started going wrong for Free Radical.
In 2008, the company went bankrupt following the flop of Haze and the sudden cancellation of Star Wars Battlefront III, despite claims it was almost finished.
It was bought by Crytek in 2009, but that was a complete disaster, and in 2014, the whole place broke apart.
This all left the TimeSplitters franchise owned by Deep Silver, which in 2018 inevitably became part of Embracer Group.
So you'll never guess what happened next.
Embracer brought Free Radical back into existence in 2021, including original developers with the goal of making a new TimeSplitters game.
Before messing up the entire situation as only Embracer can, restructuring saw the company closed down two years later and TimeSplitters 4 thrown once again into limbo.
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So while a new game seems to be cursed for all eternity, at least there's soon to be a much easier way of playing the beloved original on your PS4 or PS5.
