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David Doak, the former boss of Haze and TimeSplitters developer Free Radical, has set up a brand new studio.
It's called Zinkyzonk and will specialise in making games for Facebook, according to Develop.
Steve Ellis, who helped co-found Free Radical, is also involved with the new project.
Free Radical's last game was Haze, a futuristic shooter for PS3. It didn't do so well with the critics - the game scored just 4/10 on Eurogamer, for example, and it failed to set the charts alight. The studio shut down in December.
Remember how good TimeSplitters was though?
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They are indeed Pirotic. Surely Free Radical/Crytek UK are more notable for Second Sight than Haze though, at least in the minds of fans of many/most gamers? Granted Haze is noteworthy as something of a flop, but I would imagine that Timesplitter series and Second Sight are primarily what the studio are noted for. That, and being founded by a couple of members of the dev team of Goldeneye.
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Mentalist(air)
13/08/09 @ 08:21
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Zinkyzonk?
Man, somebody's spent 9 months at home watching nothing but CBeebies. |
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kinky_mong
13/08/09 @ 09:09
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@Eraser: It was deserved though. EA's contribution to Timesplitters 3 screwed it up royally. I remember how disappointed I was with that game after Timesplitters 2 was my favourite FPS of that generation.
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wewillselfdestruct
13/08/09 @ 10:06
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What was EA's contribution to Timesplitters 3? Other than publishing it obviously.
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BiffTanner
13/08/09 @ 10:11
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Xerx3s
I believe shortly before crytek bought them up a few of the top guys just left to form another company rather than wait to find out if anyone would actually buy them. What a way to go though, a couple of guys who worked on goldeneye who prob still have some good game ideas working on facebook game, what a shame |
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makeamazing
13/08/09 @ 12:01
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Doesnt sound like a fun job to me... not a fan of slowbook... i mean facebook.
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coolbritannia
18/08/09 @ 13:57
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scuffpuppy, I concur. but unlike the masses, I hated the timesplitters games. hey, anyone see a siberian dam facility just blew up....remind you of anything?
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