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TimeSplitters 4 Could Be on Its Way After All

It was announced today that TimeSplitters has beenĀ acquired byĀ Koch Media, and just in the nick of time. The German media conglomerate has also takenĀ Second Sight under its wing. The two latest additions to the Koch Mediaā€™s Y2K stable are going to be published by Deep Silver, which is also bringing usĀ Metro ExodusĀ next year.

TimeSplittersĀ andĀ Second SightĀ were both hits back in their heyday. Koch Media paid Free Radical a confidential amount for the IP rights to both franchises, and itā€™ll be interesting to see what THQ does with the two franchises.Ā In particular,Ā TimeSplitters 2Ā was well-received upon its release when the franchise moved beyond the PlayStation 2 to occupy a home on the GameCube and theĀ Xbox.

However, after the third entry in theĀ TimeSplittersĀ series, things started to slow down and developer Free Radical had to pull the plug when the company went into administration. Crytek bailed out the studio, but it was too little too late; the door shut on TimeSplitters in 2009, even though it gets wheeled around every few years when the industry remembers that it exists.

Luckily for us, itā€™s looking like THQ Nordicā€™s acquisition is going to wake the sleeping giant. Weā€™re talking a lot more funds being invested into potential revival projects, and itā€™s unlikely that the franchises were acquired to only be sent to the equivalent of the game dev glue factory in a couple of years. Plus, it looks like THQ is dedicating itself to bringing back other blasts from the past; Polygon revealed that the company was planning on re-releasing titles based on Nickelodeon hits likeĀ Avatar: The Last Airbender, Danny Phantom, and The Wild Thornberries.

Weā€™ve already seen what THQ has done so far withĀ Darksiders, so it could well breathe new life into these old series and finally bring usĀ TimeSplitters 4.Ā We donā€™t know how soon weā€™ll actually see something new on this front but watch this space!

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