"For Timesplitters 4, with ever spiralling development costs, massive teams and endless crunch we decided on a more radical development strategy.

"In short, the experiment was to implement the infinite monkey theorem. With cloning being a far too expensive option, we spent all of the development budget on buying monkeys on the black market.

"Those seven monkeys are now sat in a room with typewriters and lots of mirrors, and we fully expect Timesplitters 4 to be finished soon. Rumours are that they haven't written any code but just tease the press from time to time. Those damn monkeys.

"PS: anyone got any bananas?"

The mag's latest UK issue reports that a Crytek UK FPS follow-up could indeed be real, but notes that even if it is in development "that's no guarantee that it'll be released."

OXM writes: "Trusted OXM sources have claimed that they've seen TimeSplitters 4 running. That's no guarantee that it'll be released - at least one version of Star Wars: Battlefront 3 was cancelled without ever being announced - but it's a promising sign.

"If we do get a proper sequel, we're likely to see the old games appear, too," it notes.

The TimeSplitters FPS series has been on a hiatus since the 2005 release of the third game, TimeSplitters: Future Perfect on PS2, Xbox and GameCube.

A fourth game has, however, been rumoured for some time, most recently by a report citing a 'high-ranking industry source at Crytek' which claimed development on the fourth game...

Before Karl opened up the room for questions he spoke about the current situation of Crytek, such as a project that is in progress right now, He told us that Crytek are developing Homefront 2 for THQ, but unfortunately due to disclaimers in contracts sadly, that is all he could tell us at this time! He also sp...