Need for Speed Franchise Passes 100M Units Sold

Electronic Arts revealed today that the Need for Speed franchises has surpassed 100 Million units sold worldwide – making the Need for Speed franchise the best-selling racing brand in the gaming history. Along with that, the publisher also revealed that the franchise has generated a total of 2.7 billion in sales.
“Few video game franchises ever [...]

NFS: SHIFT Demo Hits Console Marketplaces

Rush to your nearest console because Electronic Arts has revealed today that the Need for Speed: SHIFT demo is available for download via the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace right now.
The demo will give players the chance to sample this year’s most intense authentic racing game by pushing one of four cars, including the BMW [...]

Electronic Arts Details Need For Speed: Shift’s Drift Mode

Today, Electronic Arts detailed the Drift mode for its upcoming title, Need For Speed: Shift, in which players are required to toggle the brakes while constantly adjusting the steering to maintain drifts through the corner – exactly like the drifters in real life. Details are as follow:

Need for Speed: Shift delivers the most authentic drift [...]

E3 ‘09: Criterion Is Working on A Need for Speed

If you were wondering if Burnout and Need For Speed were going to merge to make one total new kind of video game, they aren’t, John Riccitiello told Kotaku during E3. However, he did say something about the Burnout developers working on a new Need for Speed title.
When being asked if EA is planning to [...]

‘Need for Speed’ Franchise Is Shifting Gears

In past years, the ‘Need of Speed’ series hasn’t really been to up to speed because, really, after Pro-Street no one was willing to take another chance with a game from the ‘Need for Speed’ series. Which had led to the problematic sales of the recently released Need for Speed title, Undercover, getting some negative [...]

Need for Speed Studio Is Officially Closed [Updated]

Before you start reading please take note that the story has been updated below.

Independently, Black Box Studio was a great studio that produced many great games for one of the industry dominant publishers, EA – which is also a developer. There was a rumor going around that the company had plans to close Black Box [...]

EA Shelves Plans For New Vancouver Studio

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According to GlobeAndMail, EA has decided to cancel the construction of their new gaming development studio in Vancouver, mainly because of slow holiday sales and the decline of the general economy.
“These are challenging times, they’re uncertain times for our industry and across the board,” EA spokesman Colin Macrae told The Globe [...]

Need For Speed: Undercover NOT Getting Demo

The twelfth installment of the popular racing video game series Need for Speed has been shown at the Games Conventions in Asia. And according to John Doyle, the producer of the latest Need for Speed game, EA would not be releasing a demo. He told GamingIndians that EA would not be releasing a demo of [...]

GC 08: Need for Speed: Undercover Details

Black Box studio has revealed some new details for their upcoming game, Need for Speed: Undercover, the details are as stated from the press release: Need for Speed: Undercover has players racing through speedways, dodging cops and chasing rivals as they go deep undercover to take down an International crime syndicate. The new game heralds [...]

Maggie Q A Lead Character In NFS: Undercover

Black Box, a studio apart of EA, today announced that Need for Speed Undercover is scheduled for release this holiday season. But, in the games recently release teaser trailer it showed a November 18th release date, which counts as the holiday season. Along with this announcement Black Box studios also revealed that Maggie Q will [...]