{"id":36909,"date":"2012-04-30T12:21:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=36909"},"modified":"2012-04-30T12:54:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-30T10:54:01","slug":"crytek-spent-timesplitters-4-development-budget-on-buying-monkeys-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/36909-crytek-spent-timesplitters-4-development-budget-on-buying-monkeys-instead","title":{"rendered":"Crytek spent Timesplitters 4 development budget on “buying monkeys” instead"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crytek UK<\/a> have cleared up the rumours and confirmed that Timesplitters 4 is not in development.<\/p>\n

Last week, news emerged via an OXM insider, who claimed<\/a> to have seen the not-yet-announced game “running”.<\/p>\n

The speculation (and source) have obviously been silenced due to Crytek UK’s soul-crushing, yet funny statement:<\/p>\n

“For Timesplitters 4, with ever spiralling development costs, massive teams and endless crunch we decided on a more radical development strategy.”<\/p>\n

“In short, the experiment was to implement the infinite monkey theorem. With cloning being a far too expensive option, we spent all of the development budget on buying monkeys on the black market.”<\/p>\n

“Those seven monkeys are now sat in a room with typewriters and lots of mirrors, and we fully expect Timesplitters 4 to be finished soon. Rumours are that they haven’t written any code but just tease the press from time to time. Those damn monkeys.”<\/p>\n

“PS: anyone got any bananas?”<\/p>\n

TimeSplitters: Future Perfect (2005) was the most recent release in the series for PS2<\/a>, Xbox<\/a> and GameCube<\/a>, with the franchise then fading out of the limelight after Crytek saved TimeSplitters studio Free Radical from closing down.<\/p>\n

Source: CVG<\/a><\/h5>\n

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