Save TimeSplitters!

There's an online petition hitting the social media right now to either bring back the TimeSplitters series for a fourth go-around, or at least for an HD collection of the first three games in the series. Both ideas sound dandy to us; you know our love for everything TS (citations here, here, here, here, here, here, and here). Of course, there's been numerous, generally informal, petitions for new editions before, but this one has some official weight behind it, as the petition makes clear: "...the CEO [of Crytek, the game developer that absorbed series creator Free Radical Design in 2009] Cevat Yerli also said that if there was enough demand, they would perhaps make a new game." For Yerli, "enough demand" means 300,000 devotees.

Even IGN News is on top of this, so you know it's important:

 

As of this writing, the petition has 57,404 signatures of the needed 300,000. You can sign the petition by following this link. For what it's worth, Code Redd Net fully endorses this petition to bring back TimeSplitters. Both directions seem equally pleasing for fans of the series. I would suggest, however, that even if the petition reaches the required number of signatures, Crytek's hesitancy wouldn't immediately subside. They would probably throw out the HD collection to test the market themselves (I'm operating under the assumption that producing an HD collection of old games would cost significantly less than developing a brand new game) and guage the property's success prior to going forward with TS4. Nevertheless, this is great news for fans of the series.