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Putting the brakes on its annual release schedule was the best way to stop Need For Speed stagnating again. That’s according to Project CARS creative director Andy Tudor, whose team at Slightly Mad Studios created Need For Speed: Shift as part of EA’s attempts to reinvigorate the longrunning brand in …
Read More »‘You don’t need Need For Speed every year’
Project CARS dev says making games without player involvement is ‘financial suicide’
Read More »Download MCV @ Gamescom Issue 3 for free right now
The third and final MCV @ Gamescom daily magazine is out right now for you to read online. If you are one of the thousands and thousands attending the final business day at Koelnmesse, make sure to grab your copy from one of the many people handing them out. But …
Read More »EA: Need for Speed developer reveals first-person vehicle sports game
Criterion Games is working on a new first-person extreme sports game. The developer, known for the Need for Speed and Burnout franchises, was shown during EA’s pre-E3 press conference in Los Angeles. The untitled game seems to allow players to move from choppers to planes to bikes to jet skis …
Read More »EA says it won’t release a Need for Speed game this year
For the first time since 1996, there will be no new Need for Speed game on shelves this year. A new game is in development, however, and speaking to Kotaku Need for Speed’s executive producer Marcus Nilsson assured fans that the brand is alive and kicking. "It’s not like the …
Read More »Ward slams Nintendo and EA over Wii U’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted
Criterion founder Alex Ward has attacked both Nintendo and EA over their treatment of Need for Speed: Most Wanted on Wii U. Having said on Twitter that his new studio Three Fields will make games for all platforms where we can self-publish” Ward was asked whether this included Wii U. …
Read More »Ghost Games UK struck by layoffs
New Need for Speed game shelved as studio shifts focus to Visceral-led Battlefield title
Read More »Ward and Sperry depart Criterion to form new company
Co-founders leave Burnout and Need For Speed studio, Criterion working on next-gen new IP
Read More »More change for Need for Speed series
UPDATE:EA has told MCV that Need for Speed has NOT become an EA Sports game, blaming "confusion" for the claim in Polygon’s piece. Matt Bilbey will be involved with the game, however. ORIGINAL STORY: EA’s Need for Speed series has changed gear once again with news that control of the …
Read More »Poor Wii U sales behind reason not to bring Need for Speed Rivals to console
Need for Speed: Most Wanted did not put in the commercial performance on Wii U that EA was hoping for. And that, according to the game’s creative director Craig Sullivan, is the reason why the publisher is not bringing the upcoming Need for Speed Rivals to Nintendo’s machine. We did …
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