PC

Should You Buy Need For Speed: The Run? No.

With a cinematic slant, a Gumball Rally premise and the in-game assets of Mad Men star Christina Hendricks, Need for Speed: The Run is EA’s latest and in many ways most interesting attempt at keeping the ageing racing brand relevant.


November 17, 2011
Nintendo

Need For Speed: The Run Crashes Into A Wall Of Criticism

In their constant quest to turn the Need for Speed franchise into something more than just a racing game, EA tapped it’s Black Box studio to create The Run, a game driven by equal parts speed and narrative. How’d that turn out? See for yourself.


June 18, 2011
PlayStation

Need For Speed: The Run Is Mostly Not Running

Mirror’s Edge meets Need for Speed: That’s what I was expecting, hoping for as I stood in line last week to see Electronic Art’s new racing game.


April 30, 2011
Nintendo

Need For Speed The Run Brings The Story Back To Street Racing

Yesterday we posted the leaked trailer for the next instalment of Need for Speed, The Run. Today EA makes it official and tells us what’s so special about this round of illicit, high stakes racing.


September 16, 2009
News

Skate 3 Rolls Out In 2010

The third entry in EA’s growing skateboarding franchise is coming in 2010, with rival street crews vying for prime Port Carverton turf in Skate 3.


March 2, 2009
News

First Screen from NFS MMO Shows Customizable UI

A post on Need for Speed: World Online’s official blog explains its “a user-selectable gadget interface designed specifically for the PC.” Pretty much anything can be added to, deleted from, or moved about the readout.


January 23, 2009

Rumour: Electronic Arts Holding Meeting Today

Electronic Arts is holding a Town Hall meeting today at EA Canada to discuss the industry and perhaps detail more layoff news at the publisher’s studio there, according to memos obtained by Kotaku.


December 20, 2008
Uncategorized

EA Reducing Work Force By 1,000, Closing 9 Locations


December 14, 2008

Rumour: EA Sending Need for Speed to Junkyard

The Electric Playground’s show on Friday reported that Electronic Arts has cancelled development of new titles in its Need for Speed franchise. An EA spokesman gave a generic response that did not dispel the rumour.


November 20, 2008
Uncategorized

Need for Speed: Undercover Review: You’re Not Good, and You’re Not Bad

Scowly antiheroes and sexy, cleavage-packed molls return in live-action cutscenes for Need for Speed: Undercover, the sixth installment of the series since the franchise was reimagined in 2003 and taken underground. Following last year’s disappointing Need for Speed: ProStreet, Black Box and EA went back to a known winner, the cops-and-robbers formula of 2005′s Need for Speed: Most Wanted. You’re infiltrating a stolen auto ring, whose members are blissfully unaware of your cop credentials, and also the larger international ramifications of their car thievin’.

Care to take a spin? Drop it into third and see our review.