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A brief look at what could have been Timesplitters 4.

After paying £525 (about $670) for a PS3 dev kit, a Redditor has discovered an early prototype of the 2008-era first-person shooter, which was unceremoniously cancelled after developer Free Radical closed its doors. Depressingly, this isn’t the only Timesplitters game to have never seen the light of day. The reformed, Embracer Group-owned, Free Radical studio shut down last year and took its new Timesplitters game with it.

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