Free Radical Move to Pumpkin Beach

Free Radical's founder Steve Ellis is setting up a new development studio known as Pumpkin Beach, according to sources.

according to Smashpad, the studio's downfall and now administration period has lead Steve Ellis to start up a new studio known as Pumpkin Beach - and according to the source, he's taken around 20 employees with him.

Pumpkin Beach was set up a few months ago actually. The project was worked on in-house at FRD for a while. Then we were told that because the project was going to be quite different from Free Radical's previous games, they were setting up a new company, sort of a new label for the game, to avoid the associations with TimeSplitters and Haze. As for the Lucasarts thing, I'm not sure that's entirely true. I know I was working on the Lucasarts game until very recently.

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The website Pumpkin Beach has been reserved, and according to the Whois data is registered to Steve Ellis. Both Codemasters and Monumental Games were present to request CVs and applications from Free Radical staff who may be interested.