Rumor: Has the Need For Speed series come to an end?

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Rumor: Has the Need For Speed series come to an end?

Posted Dec 13th 2008 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Driving

Electronic Arts' latest version of their long running Need For Speed racing series, Need For Speed Undercover, has gotten poor reviews and also apparently not been selling nearly as well as previous titles in the franchise. So its not a shock to hear rumors that financially troubled EA may be retiring the Need For Speed series.

The Electric Underground web site is reporting through unnamed sources that EA has "cancelled the development of new titles in the once popular racing series." For the past several years EA's Black Box studio in Vancouver has handled the development of the Need For Speed series. It was recently revealed that EA has decided not to move ahead with plans for a new Vancouver dev studio because of the publisher's recent economic woes.

Tags: ea, ea-black-box, electronic-arts, need-for-speed, need-for-speed-undercover

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Thank godPosted at 7:21PM on Dec 13th 2008 by Ihavepants

Finally, ever since Carbon came out it has been a bomb every yearPosted at 7:53PM on Dec 13th 2008 by Delorean2006

About frickin' time. The series died for me with Hot Pursuit 2. Time to bury it.

...bysmittyPosted at 8:23PM on Dec 13th 2008 by bysmitty

NFS Underground 1 & 2 = fun times. Posted at 2:12AM on Dec 14th 2008 by shuref00t

yes...underground 1 & 2 were the best two games....they should have just given the same old thing with cranked up graphics...

sure FPS with a story interesting
Racing game with story( personally) i really didn't care about the story...just want flashy tricked out cars Posted at 6:39AM on Dec 15th 2008 by pubbaa