Need For Speed

I’m hoping into some Need for Speed: Heat on our Twitch channel right now! Come join me in the chat and let’s live our lives a quarter of a mile at a time.

New Plants vs. Zombies and Need for Speed games are coming later this year, EA said today ahead of its quarterly earnings call. No other details just yet, but boy, it sure was a rough year for the publisher. “Q3 was a difficult quarter for Electronic Arts and we did not perform to our expectations,” said CEO Andrew… Read more

Ghost Games says there’ll be a new Need for Speed game before 2017 ends, and it’ll be playable offline, addressing one of the major issues fans had with the 2015 reboot. It’ll have an open world, cops to flee and plenty of car customization. Look for more details at the EA Play event in June.

This is Need for Speed: Edge. Details are currently scant, but it’s from Nexon, coming to South Korea, and looks to be a Need for Speed: World. [Thanks, Sang!]

EA has announced a huge delay for Need For Speed on PC, with the game moving from November 3 until Spring 2016. Why? Making sure players can unlock the frame rate and “increase the visuals that we can deliver on PC.” Seems the response to Arkham Knight has made some publishers skittish!

The next Need for Speed will require an online connection, according to a tweet from the racing series’ official Twitter account. This development isn’t too surprising after seeing persistent connectivity play such a big part in NFS Rivals. Let’s hope the implementation improves for the upcoming game.