Timesplitters studio Free Radical Design is allegedly dealing with closure earlier than Christmas.

In keeping with a report from VGC, an e-mail has been despatched company-wide which acknowledges that the studio may very well be closed on “11 December 2023”.

The e-mail obtained by VGC was despatched by Plaion VP, Worldwide Studios & Expertise, Lars Jannsen, and reads:

“As we transfer by way of the session course of and face the potential closure of Free Radical Design on 11 December 2023, I wish to specific my gratitude to your dedication and the exceptional work you’ve completed and nonetheless hold doing.”

VGC additionally reported earlier this month that Free Radical was underneath menace of being closed, with Embracer Group, who owns the studio, finishing up a “restructuring” program.

Free Radical Design was solely based in 2021, particularly to develop a brand new Timesplitters recreation, with Deep Silver writing in an announcement that “you requested and we listened. We’ve been engaged on plans to carry the Timesplitters franchise again to life, and are happy to let you realize that we’re organising a brand new Deep Silver improvement studio to do exactly that.”

The information comes after Embracer Group laid off 900 folks from numerous totally different studios, persevering with a development of layoffs within the trade. When pressed in regards to the layoffs throughout a monetary report, CEO Lars Wingefors had solely the next to say:

“Earlier than we get into the enterprise particulars of our second quarter, I wish to begin this convention by saying a private thanks to the 900 individuals who left Embracer throughout the second quarter. As you’ll hear at the moment, we’re decided to remodel Embracer right into a leaner, stronger group.”

“That mentioned, it’s painful to me that you could depart the group, and now we have been and are doing the whole lot we are able to to protect jobs with out altering what we have to obtain,”

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