need for speed: shift

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Need For Speed Shift Goes Team-Based

2:40AM Mike Fahey | Come December, it isn’t all about you anymore. EA is releasing a Team Racing pack for Need for Speed Shift, a free update that brings team tactics and five legendary vehicles to the game. More »
Rumours

New 250GB Bundles Box Art Looks Like This, Apparently!

10:00PM Brian Ashcraft | Europe is getting a bunch of 250GB PlayStation 3 bundles. Besides coming packaged with a game and sporting a bigger hard drive, the bundles also have something else going for them: More »
Culture

Watch Aussie Celebs Try To Play Need For Speed: Shift

4:00PM David Wildgoose | EA rounded up a bunch of Aussie sports and TV personalities to promote the recently released Need For Speed: Shift. The celebs had to race in the game and on a real race track. More »
News

NFS: Shift Crashes At PlayStation Store Screen — On A 360

3:00AM Owen Good | Calling it “the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times,” one blogger writes of his frustration when the game crashes on a PlayStation Store loading screen. Well, here’s your problem: He has the Xbox 360 version. More »
Hands On

Need For Speed Shift Review: Switching Gears

8:00AM Monty Phan | Need for Speed Shift is about an apt a title as you’ll find, referring not only to, obviously, its auto-racing genre, but also to EA’s efforts to take the series in a new direction — namely, toward more serious simulation-style fare and away from the cops-and-robbers, anything-goes attitude of the game’s predecessors. More »
News

Need For Speed Twitter Missions Could Score You A BMW

7:30AM Mike Fahey | Complete Need for Speed missions on Twitter and you could win a shiny new BMW M3 courtesy of Electronic Arts. More »
Media

Need For Speed: Shift—The True Driver’s Experience

9:00AM Mike Fahey | Need for Speed Shift drifts its way onto store shelves this week, and the official trailer shows up what to expect from EA’s more realistic take on the classic racing series. More »
News

30FPS Vs 60FPS Is “Negligible” Says Need For Speed Dev

9:00AM David Wildgoose | That’s the view of Need For Speed: Shift producer Jesse Abney, whose “authentic” racer displays at 30 frames per second. Abney claims there’s plenty more under the hood that determines a racer’s performance. More »
News

How Did Mirror’s Edge Influence Need For Speed: Shift?

11:00AM David Wildgoose | You wouldn’t think Mirror’s Edge would have much in common with EA’s upcoming “authentic” racing sim Need For Speed: Shift. But it does, and here’s how. More »
News

Notebook Dump: The Wii’s Missing Arkham, NBA 2K10, More

9:00AM Stephen Totilo | There comes a time in the week to reflect on what got into my reporter’s notebook but didn’t turn into Kotaku blog posts. Shall we? More »