Hi! We're an independant games developer, based in Nottingham, England. If you want the full rundown, click to our Corporate section.

We love you, really we do - every single one of you, as if you were our own flesh and blood. However, we're only a wee small company, and as such we haven't got the time to reply to the many hundreds of emails we get every week. Remember, we're trying to spend our time developing the games that (hopefully) you love. By the way, if you really need help with TimeSplitters or TimeSplitters 2, you should contact the publisher, Eidos Interactive. For Second Sight, please contact Codemasters, and for TimeSplitters Future Perfect, get in touch with Electronic Arts.

No, sorry. Free Radical is wholly owned by its founders and currently has no plans to become a Plc.

Absolutely - providing you fit the requirements for an available position on our recruitment page.

Actually the 'monkey' that appeared in previous games was a 3D scanned model of Karl Hilton. This was supposed to be another means to publicise his sexy playboy lifestyle, but it backfired horribly, causing him to hide in one of his red Ferraris for eleven weeks.

Yes, absolutely all of us. Particularly those of us who were still at school when it was released. However, only Dave Doak, Steve Ellis, Karl Hilton and Graeme Norgate publicly admit it.

We are also developing a top secret 'Next-gen' game with LucasArts and TimeSplitters 4. If that ain't fresh to death, I don't know what is.

Yes. He regularly performs surgery when not eating Snickers bars.

Would you believe, they actually do - it's just that no one's found them yet...

It's mainly because they wouldn't let us do a game of Animal Farm. And no, I don't mean the Orson Welles one. Also, we've had plenty of success doing our own thing so far. That said, there are a few licenses we'd like to have a crack at. One of them, some of us have had some experience of, you might remember it from the N64. The second one, well... We really shouldn't say.

Are you saying we lied? Well, get this: All of the screenshots of HAZE are definitely ingame, running in realtime on Free Radical's own next-gen graphics engine. Absolutely no pants on fire in this building, guaranteed.

Haze is powered by Free Radical's own next-generation engine, developed completely in-house. After all, our engine coders need something to do besides smell of fried chicken and pizza.

It's because we wanted to tell a different kind of story - something more filmic, more serious. Furthermore, the visual style is supportive of the kind gameplay we're introducing using our awesome next-gen engine. Trust us - it really will be worth it.

Probably not. It's a bit of a double-edged sword, because on the one hand next-gen allows us to make incredibly intricate and organic environments. But the flip side, is that having environments that are so complex means that creating a mapmaker is a hell of a lot harder than it was before - so now it's double hard.

You nosey little wretch.

Fine. Here's the deal, we're not making a standard, predictable war-shooter. We wanted an edge - and the end of the E3 trailer is the glimmering point of the blade, the tip of the iceberg if you will. Just you wait.

In keeping with our new hard-nosed gritty realism, you will be able to jump. In fact, you might want to celebrate this fact by doing a small jump yourself.

No. Nothing but the respect and admiration of other people in the welfare queue.

Yes. But we've never released them. We like to keep things as impossible as possible.

If you're really interested, there's a very good FAQ available at http://www.gamefaqs.com.

Because we forgot.

Sure. When? No idea.