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Electronic Arts has announced that it will offer those who have bought Need for Speed: Shift a free-to-download DLC pack which will provide even more content to play around with in the racing game. The new piece of content is called The Team Racing Pack and is set to introduce a new mode of play for those interested ... |
24 November 2009
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This week has been all about playing Dragon Age: Origins and not much else. This has resulted in five diary type installments you can read right now. But we also have the regular Weekend Reading feature, a fresh edition of EndGameWeek and an assortment of other news pieces we think are worth reading.On Monday, we fou... |
13 November 2009
11:11 GMT |
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Need for Speed seems poised for a second Golden Age. The series, which captured the hearts of casual racing interested players with the Porsche based title and then with the cops and robbers mechanics inserted into the Hot Pursuit title, has this year returned to its racing roots, after a couple of disappointing rele... |
12 November 2009
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1994 was the year in which the most popular racing game franchise was born. In that year, Electronic Arts released the first Need for Speed game for the 3DO console, but it would have never guessed just how much of an impact it would have. Right now, the game has gathered 14 sequels spread across 14 consoles. Today, ... |
22 October 2009
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Need for Speed: Shift managed to hold on to the top spot in the videogame chart compiled for the United Kingdom for just one short week. It seems that shooting Covenant aliens is more appealing than racing in a more simulation-like experience delivered by Need for Speed, as Halo 3: ODST, the latest Bungie videogame, ... |
1 October 2009
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Activision has officially confirmed that its Blur racing video game is now slated for a 2010 release. The title was initially set to arrive before Christmas, but the publisher decided that the team that developed it needed some more time in order to make sure that the quality was on par with the expectations that gam... |
23 September 2009
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It hasn't even come out of the box completely and Need for Speed: Shift already gets an update. Released today, the first patch will add two new features to the game. The first, which is a major one, brings an improvement to the multiplayer, with the addition of the Local Area Network support. The second, more a... |
23 September 2009
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NASCAR is still very popular in the United States but it seems that for the first time in years fans will not be able to get a game in 2010 that uses the franchise to offer some realistic or arcade driving experience. While this might seem like a rather depressing prospect Electronic Arts, which has previously used t... |
3 September 2009
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Racing games are quite popular these days as many people are in love with the idea of driving around fast and expensive cars on race tracks all around the world, thus proving their superior driving to everyone involved in the respective races. Adding much to the bragging rights that racers will earn in the upcoming ... |
26 August 2009
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Racing games are extremely popular these days as many people want to experience the virtual thrills of driving supercars to their limits on challenging racing tracks all around the world without leaving the comfort of their own home. For quite some time Electronic Arts' Need For Speed series has been a leader o... |
25 August 2009
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Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise has been a staplemark of the racing game genre for quite some time, ever since the first title arrived from EA Canada many years ago. Since then, we've been host to a variety of NFS titles, each one aiming to improve the recipe of its predecessors but also bring new... |
20 August 2009
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Electronic Arts is one of the biggest publishers in the world, owning a lot of development studios and a lot of franchises that it spreads to these smaller companies from its portfolio. One of the biggest series is Need For Speed, which, after a few years of being developed and published on a yearly basis, has now b... |
14 August 2009
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The people operating on the Need for Speed Blog have announced a contest for iPhone owners and players of the Need For Speed: Undercover iPhone port. Titled “iPhone Undercover Competition: Customize for the Win!,” the contest has NFS fans creating an awesome custom vehicle to be featured on NeedforSpeed.c... |
5 August 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important gaming news from the past 7 days. It's been a pretty hectic time, especially since the San Diego Comic-Con started this week, and a lot of companies already prepared some big announcements for this weekend. So without... |
25 July 2009
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Racing games make a lot of money these days, as every gamer wants to unwind by pushing a virtual car to its limits and eventually come out on top and beat his opponents. Without a doubt, one of the most exciting racing franchises is EA's Need For Speed, which is preparing to receive three new titles in the follo... |
23 July 2009
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Racing games have been around for quite some time, but one of the trademark series for the genre has been Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise. Even though it hasn't been going through the best of times recently, with three titles scheduled to appear in the near future, things are definitely looking go... |
20 July 2009
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Racing games are extremely popular these days, as players are eager to get behind the virtual driving wheel of a car and do whatever they want with it. Despite many titles guaranteeing a lot of options and driving modes, most of them focus only on racing, even though there are a lot of other things you could do with ... |
13 July 2009
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Racing games are quite popular these days, as they give players the sensation of racing extremely expensive cars all around the world in some adrenaline-filled races. They can be quite forgiving, in the case of arcade-oriented titles, but when you play hardcore simulators, like Gran Turismo or other such titles, you ... |
7 July 2009
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The Need For Speed franchise is one of the most well-established racing game series of all time, thanks to Electronic Arts, which has taken care of it for quite some time and has created a loyal fan base for it. Sadly, in recent years, things haven't been going so well for the brand, which saw many of its fans ... |
30 June 2009
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Racing games have always been about portraying the fun and adrenaline-filled sensations that you get from driving a car right to its limits to ordinary gamers who may or may not have been in a professional racing car up until then. Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise has always focused on this aspect, and... |
16 June 2009
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This year seems to be ready for a battle of the racing games, as quite a lot of videogames featuring fast cars, complex tracks and speed are set to be released in 2009. And in order to make it big, developers and publishers must offer not only great graphics and superb game mechanics but also a lot of trash talking o... |
15 June 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, your roundup of the most important news in the gaming industry from the last seven days. It has been a pretty busy week, as E3 passed and companies are still trying to make their ideas heard by the average gamer. Without further ado, here's this editio... |
13 June 2009
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Racing games are extremely popular thanks to the adrenaline rush that they offer gamers all around the world who want to have their need for high speed races satisfied. Two of the biggest franchises in racing belong to Electronic Arts, in the form of Need For Speed and Burnout. While the NFS brand has now been sprea... |
11 June 2009
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This week, the E3 blow out happened. Almost all of our news articles came out the Los Angeles Convention Centers, as the biggest companies in videogaming showed off the titles and devices that would shape our experiences in the coming year. Here are the biggest pieces of news of the last few days.Monday was all about... |
6 June 2009
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As E3 will start today, spirits are high in the gaming industry with the first companies to hold their keynotes being Microsoft, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft. In order to further fuel the hype around its Need for Speed Shift racing game, EA has just revealed big details about the title, including what cars and tracks ... |
1 June 2009
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Driving games are quite popular because they offer the feeling of racing through some of the busiest cities or famous race tracks around the world in real-life cars. But even though there are many franchises based on this genre, not a lot of them offer a big dose of fun, instead focusing on delivering the most realis... |
29 May 2009
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Activision Blizzard is keen on creating a racing game that will blow the rival Need For Speed series from Electronic Arts out of the water and off the track. Its latest attempt is set to be named Blur and should be released during autumn for the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360 and the PC. Development duties are being han... |
22 May 2009
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The Need for Speed franchise has been one of the most popular racing series of video games for quite some time. Owned by Electronic Arts, it has entertained gamers for a lot of years and satisfied their need for high-speed races around exotic settings and complex cities, all while evading the police or completing an ... |
21 May 2009
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The Need for Speed franchise has been for a long time the benchmark series for any racing game that appeared on the market. It crossed genres from action to simulation and arcade, thus creating experiences that gamers welcomed with open arms. But in the last few years, the series has been struggling to find its iden... |
20 May 2009
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The Need for Speed franchise has been one of the most appreciated racing series for quite some time. But sadly, in recent years, this popularity has declined, as the yearly titles haven't managed to bring anything new to the franchise and make it once again the benchmark for all racing games. This year though, ... |
15 May 2009
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This week, we've been busy playing Resident Evil 5 in cooperative play. It's been an interesting experience, to say the least. We've detailed it, talking about Chris' body, the problem with cutscenes and QTEs and about the missing horror element in the game. But other things have occurred this wee... |
9 May 2009
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For quite some time, the Need For Speed franchise has been the benchmark for any racing game that appeared. But, sadly, in the last few years, things haven't been going so well for the series, as its iterations have begun to decline in both sales and quality. While it didn't gain critical acclaim, NFS Und... |
8 May 2009
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Electronic Arts, one of the biggest videogame publishers in the world, has announced that it has lost no less than 42 million dollars in the last fiscal quarter of 2009, which is quite a big sum but a narrower loss than analysts expected. In the similar period of the previous year, the company had reported a loss of ... |
7 May 2009
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Electronic Arts has unleashed Need For Speed: Undercover on iPhone and iPod touch, the latest NFS title that aims to take gamers back to the Cop Takeout days of the franchise, while also introducing new game modes such as the Highway Battle. Not surprisingly, EA is targeting its most faithful fans with the release o... |
6 May 2009
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The Need for Speed franchise is known across the world as one of the best racing series of titles. Published by Electronic Arts, these games have pushed the whole genre forward through implementing new and interesting ways to race around various circuits and city streets. Now, after a period when the franchise hasn&... |
5 May 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week, the roundup of everything important that happened in the video game industry this week. We've seen quite a lot of interesting things happen in these past few days, with everything from piracy to leaks from inside sources and official announcements. Wit... |
2 May 2009
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The Need for Speed franchise has been famous for allowing players to customize their cars to the maximum allowed, but even though you worked very hard to ensure that your vehicles were the best in the game, those of your opponents in the story mode of any NFS game would be just a bit better in order to give you a dec... |
1 May 2009
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The Need For Speed franchise is probably one of the best-known series of racing games out there. Developed by the Black Box studio of Electronic Arts, the game puts players into the driving seat of the hottest and fastest cars available in the real world. Besides the adrenaline-filled races, it also makes the player ... |
29 April 2009
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Need for Speed Undercover was one of last year's most expected racing titles, with a big number of fans being very excited about the new game, which promised to do away with the last iteration, ProStreet. But, even though the game followed the same basic recipe as others, fans weren't very happy with it, c... |
28 April 2009
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Racing games have always captured the imagination of a lot of players, because they have presented them with the chance to take some of the most powerful cars in the world and push them to their limits in adrenaline-filled racers. For a long time, EA's Need for Speed franchise has dominated the genre, but with t... |
17 April 2009
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For quite some time, racing titles have been led by Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise, which has set the benchmark in terms of gameplay and story. But, sadly, with the latest few titles the series has lost a lot of its popularity and was even rumored to be canceled altogether. However, all these specula... |
24 March 2009
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Hello and welcome to another edition of A Gamer's Week. These past 7 days have been really hectic in terms of gaming, as a lot of companies have brought forth details about their upcoming games and, as usual, various market research firms, like the NPD Group, have shown the hardware and software charts. Without ... |
21 March 2009
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Those who own an N-Gage-compatible mobile phone have now even more reasons to rejoice, as another attractive game title is fast heading towards them, Need For Speed: Undercover. Racing enthusiasts will certainly enjoy this game in all its splendor on the N-Gage platform, just like those who played it on a desktop PC ... |
19 March 2009
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Racing games have always been quite popular, as a lot of people wanted to envision themselves pushing the most popular sports cars to their limits on different circuits, tracks or roads. That is why Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise has been so popular over the years, gaining a huge number of fans around... |
17 March 2009
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For quite some time people have mistaken Electronic Arts' Need For Speed franchise with the whole genre of racing games. The historical series has entertained a lot of racers with its adrenaline-filled competitions, highly detailed cars and new gameplay elements, such as tuning, but, sadly, with the last few tit... |
10 March 2009
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Hello and welcome to the weekly roundup of the most important gaming news that surfaced in the past few days. This week was almost all about future titles that would be gracing a variety of platforms in the following months. In order to create the biggest amount of hype around them we've seen developers release ... |
7 March 2009
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This week my main gaming-related activity was playing the hell out of Dawn of War II for my review. But, somewhat surprisingly, other stuff was happening that needed reporting. Here are our most interesting stories of the week that was. On Monday Sony invited gamers to test a new “gaming machine” that mi... |
28 February 2009
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Racing games have been enjoying a massive amount of popularity for a long while now, largely due to Electronic Arts' very successful Need For Speed franchise, which has entertained people with adrenaline-filled races for quite some time, but which, lately, hasn't been up to par with what the company wants f... |
26 February 2009
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Science is a pretty interesting thing, especially when it concerns the human mind and how it works. This was the focus of some professors at the Carleton University in Canada, who have just conducted a study that has proven that if you play car racing video games you are more likely to buy some real-life cars that ap... |
13 February 2009
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Electronic Arts has just reported a third quarter loss for fiscal 2008 of 641 million dollars. This is way more than in the same period of 2007, when the loss was of just 33 million. The third fiscal quarter ends on December 31 and comprises the crucial Christmas shopping season, when many videogame publishers releas... |
4 February 2009
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