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I'm not bad at racing games — I can speed, swerve for pickups and wreck the car, no problem. I'm just bad at driving, so if there are no pickups and you're not supposed to crash, well... More »Need For Speed Shift Goes Team-Based
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 »New 250GB Bundles Box Art Looks Like This, Apparently! [Update]
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 »NFS: Shift Crashes at PlayStation Store Screen — on a 360
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 »Need for Speed Shift Review: Switching Gears
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 »Need For Speed Twitter Missions Could Score You A BMW
Complete Need for Speed missions on Twitter and you could win a shiny new BMW M3 courtesy of Electronic Arts. More »Need For Speed: Shift - The True Driver's Experience
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 »Notebook Dump: The Wii's Missing Arkham, NBA 2K10, More
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 »Vaughn Gittin Jr. Drifts Through Need For Speed: Shift
Slightly Mad Studios is serious about drifting in the upcoming Need for Speed Shift, tapping champion drifter Vaughn Gittin Jr, to make sure everything feels just right. More »EA Goes Hatin' On Rival Racing Games
EA's long-running, big-selling racing franchise Need for Speed has fallen on hard times in recent years. Which seems to have the mega-publisher on the front foot when it comes to their competition in the genre. More »Still Can't Believe A Need For Speed Game Looks Good
With E3 almost upon us, EA have reminded us of what I like to think is the spiritual successor to the Project Gotham series, Need for Speed: Shift. More »New Need For Speed: Shift Screens Are Very Normal
Today has been... weird. News of Mr. T and Will Wright fighting Nazis, the addition of farting attributes to Nobi Nobi Boy, and unicorns on ESPN.com make me seriously worry that I'm not yet awake. More »Need For Speed: Shift Is The Ghost Of Project Gotham Racing
With developers Bizarre Creations now at Activision, the Project Gotham Racing series is dead in the water. But fans of the dormant franchise may want to take a look at Need for Speed: Shift. More »First Screens Of Need For Speed: Shift
EA has slipped us the first set of screens for Need for Speed: Shift, the more serious racer announced as part of the recent series shakeup. More »EA Hit The Reset Button On Need For Speed Franchise, 3 New Games Coming
It's official: the sheen has well and truly worn off the Need for Speed franchise. Once a guaranteed smash, recent titles have under-performed badly, leading EA to announce a total reboot for the series. More »