In April 2018, a collection of previously unrevealed concept art for the game was made available on Reddit, showing characters from multiple time periods and locations, including Ancient Greece and 1950s USA. In August of the same year, Koch Media (a subsidiary of THQ Nordic AB) announced that they had acquired the IP and publishing rights for "TimeSplitters", with the intention of publishing future games in the series via their Deep Silver publishing company. In August 2019, THQ Nordic announced in their financial report that Steve Ellis had joined the company to "help plot the future course for "TimeSplitters" franchise." Ellis then stated that the series' "time has now come" and expressed hopes that "the original team will join hands again." Later that month, Dambuster Studios, which includes several former Free Radical staff members, replied to a fan on Twitter, confirming that Ellis had a team "handling the next "TimeSplitters" product." The series' other creator, David Doak, confirmed in an interview that he "isn't directly involved with this new interpretation," but expressed a desire to see it return as a "social experience" (similar to games like Fortnite), rather than a traditional boxed-game product.