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It's not turning out to be a good holiday season for many in the game industry. Today is no exception. Gamesindustry.biz reported earlier this morning that the UK based game studio Free Radical Design closed its doors unexpectedly today.

The report, which cited unnamed sources, stated that Free Radical employees, which number 185 team members, came to work today to find the doors locked with instructions to meet at a local hotel for a final company meeting. However, a report on the UK based Nottingham.co.uk reports that the developer has gone into "administration" (the UK term for bankruptcy). Most employees have been told to stay home while the company looks over its financial position. Free Radical hopes to have some kind of announcement before Christmas or soon afterward about the status of the company.

While Free Radical mostly worked on console games they did release a PC port of their 2004 action-adventure game Second Sight for publisher Codemasters in 2004. Long time rumors have named Free Radical as the developer of Star Wars Battlefront III for LucasArts. The Gamesindustry.biz article claims that game has now moved over to another UK-based studio, Rebellion.