Rumor: Need For Speed series not dead yet

Posted Dec 15th 2008 10:00AM by John Callaham
Filed under: Driving

Last weekend we reported on a rumor from another site that claimed Electronic Arts was planning to retire their long-time racing game series Need For Speed. Now our sister site Joystiq reports that the Need For Speed series is in fact still in play and that a new developer is taking on the reins.

Joystiq, using their own unnamed sources, claims that Burnout developers Criterion Games will be taking the mantle of the Need For Speed series for one upcoming installment and that Need For Speed's previous studio, EA's Black Box team in Vancouver, are "most likely" shutting down. According to the story Black Box team members will be consolidated to EA's other, and much larger, Vancouver studio. We plan to contact EA to get the final word, if there is one, on this matter.

Tags: burnout, criterion-games, ea, electronic-arts, need-for-speed, need-for-speed-undercover

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

well only if EA can hear us

why not make a game like GRID with more customization options
since the GPU's are now very powerful why not make the next NFS in a beautiful and exotic place than fictional american city

with the day and night cycle

circuit race like in GRID by day
underground racing by night

and make the cities more alivePosted at 10:37AM on Dec 15th 2008 by pubbaa

Hah... I stopped playing NFS after they started doing stupid stuff like Underground... The series was in its prime during games like Hot Pursuit. Maybe if they looked back and seen what made the series so incredible. All about fast cars, tough opponents, and the thrill of the chase. Not some stupid story full of idiots that look like they were pulled straight from the Fast and the Furious movies... The series wasn't Speed Racer and it wasn't Pretend we are cool Racing. It WAS one of the best racing games that took us off the track, however...Posted at 4:56PM on Dec 15th 2008 by Silver