Tag: Need For Speed
News The Largely Forgotten Need for Speed Unbound Is Still Getting Big Updates on PS5
Lockdown mode coming soon
We feel a bit sorry for Need for Speed Unbound; it launched back in December 2022 with almost no fanfare at all, despite being arguably the best game in the series in years. Still, while it's flown way under the radar, it's quietly been receiving great post-launch support all this time, with the next big update coming very...
News Need for Speed Unbound Drift & Drag Adds NFS Underground Modes Today
Drift, Drag, and League modes revealed
As confirmed when the game was added to PS Plus Extra earlier this year, Need for Speed Unbound is being supported for a second year, and the first free content drop inspired by a past entry will be available today on PS5. With the theme of "Drift & Drag", Need for Speed Underground fuels three new modes:...
News Fresh PS Plus Extra Racing Game Will Be the 'Ultimate NFS Experience'
Second year of support pulls on past NFS games
Need for Speed Unbound becomes available to PS Plus Extra members later today, and developer Criterion is talking a big game when it comes to an unexpected second year of post-launch support. In an attempt to help shape the future of the NFS franchise, two out of four content drops between now and...
News Need for Speed: Most Wanted Remake Seemingly Outed by Voice Actor
Simone Bailly says so
A remake of Need for Speed: Most Wanted looks to have been publicly outed ahead of any official announcement from EA, if a now-deleted tweet is to be believed. Simone Bailly, who plays Sgt. Cross' partner in the original title, said: "Need for Speed: Most Wanted Remake is being released in 2024, LIKE & comment if you want...
News Need for Speed Unbound Hits EA Play This Thursday
If you're not on FF XVI
If you're able to pull yourself away from Final Fantasy XVI on Thursday and you subscribe to EA Play, then you'll have a new PS5 game to play: Need for Speed Unbound. It's been revealed the stylish racer joins the service on Thursday, 22nd June 2023, bringing its arcadey action to anyone who's a member. In our N
News Need for Speed Unbound Volume 2 Brings New Events, Features in Major Update
Fuel injection
Need for Speed Unbound is a highly entertaining arcade racer, but let's be honest, the online multiplayer and post-game experience isn't particularly interesting. That looks set to change pretty soon, though, as developer Criterion has just announced the first post-launch update, called Volume 2. This free game update is a pretty big...
News More Info About Need for Speed Unbound's Post-Launch Support Coming in January
Criterion isn't done yet
Need for Speed Unbound arrived to little fanfare earlier this month. It's a shame, because the PS5 arcade racer is really rather good — probably the best the series has been in a long time. Whether or not you've joined the crew, Criterion Games clearly isn't finished with the stylish street racing title just yet. In a...
News Need for Speed Unbound PS5 File Size Leaves Plenty of Room in the Garage
EA Play trial begins tomorrow
This year is going out in style with several big releases launching at the beginning of December. Among them is Need for Speed Unbound, the latest effort to revitalise the arcade racer. Featuring a bunch of flashy effects and a new city to burn through, the game certainly looks promising, and it won't be long until we...
News Need for Speed Unbound's Overly Aggressive Social Media Apologises
Feeling the heat
Update: Well, this isn’t very rebellious, is it? Need for Speed Unbound has been playing it fast and loose on social media, and it’s been drawing attention to the game. However, it seems executives have got cold feet on the strategy, and the account has apologised for its overly aggressive tone earlier in the week. While we...
News Need for Speed Unbound Looks a Little Flat in Chunky PS5 Trailer
Wheel deal?
EA still seems reluctant to show uninterrupted footage of Need for Speed Unbound, but at least this gameplay trailer has a good chunk of actual racing in it. From the clip, we get to see the setup that will precede each race, as you have to buy-in to each event and bet against rivals – and then we see the core, arcade action. In...
News Need for Speed Unbound Trophies Drive You to Play Online if You Want That Platinum
Driving you crazy
Upcoming PS5 arcade racer Need for Speed Unbound is fast approaching its 2nd December release date, and we're looking forward to getting in the driver's seat. You know we're getting close to a game's launch day when Trophies start to appear online, and PSNProfiles is here once again with the full list of trinkets. You can view the...
News Need for Speed Unbound's PS5 Soundtrack Will Make You Feel Old
But it ain't bad
We’ve already established that Need for Speed Unbound is way too cool for school, so you can only imagine what its soundtrack looks like. Look, we hate drawing attention to our thinning hair, but genuinely we’re struggling with this list of artists. A$AP Rocky was a given, he’s a character in the game, after all. And we’ve...
News Need for Speed Unbound's Takeover Mode Is All About Driving with Style
New mode shown off
Need for Speed Unbound is just under a month away at this point, and it looks pretty promising from what we've seen so far. A new gameplay trailer has just arrived, this time focusing on a new mode — Takeover. These are replayable events that are all about driving with style to rack up points. Think of it a bit like gymkhana in...
News You Can Customise the Sound of Your Exhaust in PS5's Need for Speed Unbound
Unprecedent personalisation
EA has promised unprecedented customisation in Need for Speed Unbound, and that extends to the sound of your exhaust. Anyone who lives near a busy road will know Boy Racers™ love to make a racket, and in Criterion’s upcoming race-‘em-up you’ll be able to determine the timbre, tone, and much more of your car...
News Puma, Versace Among the Real-Life Brands in PS5's Need for Speed Unbound
You're not cool enough, pal
If you didn’t get the memo yet, Need for Speed Unbound is cool – it’s hip, trendy, lit. Y’know, everything you’re not! Anyway, despite the title’s cel-shaded look, it’s going to have tons of real-life brands inside it. And we’re talking proper fashionable labels here, like Palace Skateboards, Versace,...
News Need for Speed Unbound Has 10,000 Customisation Options on PS5
Pimp your own ride
Everyone loves customising their favourite cars, right? Well, what if we told you the upcoming Need for Speed Unbound has over 10,000 customisation options in total? From wraps and cutaways to rims, the new arcade racer from Criterion has got it all – and the art department’s gone a little crazy, with custom pizza wheels and a...
News Bet Against Rivals, Outrun the Cops in Need for Speed Unbound PS5 Gameplay Trailer
Risk and reward
Our latest look at Need for Speed Unbound is here, and it gives us a glimpse at what races will be like in this stylish racer. As you would expect, the game is primarily about illegal street races, so the police will be on patrol and out to get you. This includes during events, so you'll have to watch your tail even if you're in the...
News New Need for Speed Unbound Gameplay Video Drifts into View Tomorrow
Smoke and mirrors
Need for Speed Unbound's close-cut announcement may actually be to its benefit. With the game out in a matter of weeks, it's got a lot of ground to cover between now and 2nd December, and the drip-feed of info is keeping it in the news cycle. Case in point: we're getting another new gameplay video tomorrow: This comes exactly a...
News Yes, You Can Turn the Effects Off in Need for Speed Unbound
Well, most of them
Update: It turns out you can turn off most of the game's effects, not all of them: Original Story: One of the most interesting aspects of Need for Speed Unbound so far is its visual style. It combines some quite realistic car models with cel-shaded characters and all kinds of extra effects, giving it a sort of graffiti and...
News Need for Speed Unbound Looks Super Stylish in Short Gameplay Clip
New drip
Hot off the heels of its flashy reveal trailer, Need for Speed Unbound has just debuted a short but sweet look at gameplay footage. It's only about 30 seconds long, but there's just about enough here to get a feel for how the arcade racer will look in motion. Of course, you'll be able to customise all the special effects on your car as...
Random Need for Speed Twitter Is Beefing with Everyone Right Now
No one is safe
The new Need for Speed game is cool – but its official Twitter account is trying to be cooler. Rather than settle for standard, clinical public relations, EA has perhaps cottoned on to the modern style of corporate social media: embrace the memes and don’t give a sh*t! That’s why the game’s community manager is basically...
News Stylish PS5 Reboot Need for Speed Unbound Bringing Gameplay Imminently
Buckle up
With the game officially announced last week and due out in less than two months, Need for Speed Unbound was always going to have a compressed promotional cycle. And the upshot to that is we’ll be getting gameplay this week! As confirmed on the franchise’s Twitter account, EA will be serving up fresh “drip” from tomorrow, when it...
News Need for Speed Unbound Has Largest Launch Lineup of Cars in the Series
Gonna need a bigger garage
A big part of the appeal of the Need for Speed franchise is its plush selection of licensed cars. For decades the series has featured dozens of real-world vehicles, and depending on the game, you could customise them completely to suit your street-racing tastes. Need for Speed Unbound, the just-announced new entry, seems...
News Need for Speed Unbound Runs 4K, 60fps on PS5 with Full Crossplay
Has a full-length offline single player campaign
Need for Speed Unbound, with its vivid urban style, is looking like the best entry in EA’s arcade racing series for some time – and as the window gets wound down on the release’s 2nd December launch, the details are just getting better. Namely, an exclusive IGN interview confirms you can expect...
News Need for Speed Unbound Is Unlike Any Arcade Racer You've Seen Before
Revs up PS5 from 2nd December
Need for Speed Unbound’s debut trailer has, well, debuted a couple of hours earlier than it was supposed to. The clip – as we expected from yesterday’s first screenshots – is absolutely bursting with style, with cel-shaded character models and bundles of visual effects. These stylised elements all contrast with...
News Need for Speed Unbound Adopts a Bold New Look in First PS5 Screens
Fifth gear
Need for Speed is a franchise that’s been in need of a facelift for some time, and new game Unbound is bound to split opinion. While the title’s not officially due to be announced until later this week, Japanese retailer Neowing has prematurely uploaded the first PS5 assets fr
News Need for Speed PS5's Reveal Trailer Is Around the Hairpin Bend
Vroom vroom
After much speculation and rumours – including a complete rebranding of the franchise’s social media pages – the next Need for Speed will finally be revealed this week, on 6th October. The video, which will premiere on YouTube, is already
News Need for Speed Social Media Fired Up Ahead of Impending PS5 Reveal
In gear
The new Need for Speed game, rumoured to be subtitled Unbound, is allegedly scheduled to hit the starting line on 2nd December, 2022. However, outside of the odd rumours, we still don’t really know much about the release. It looks like that will change this week, as the series’ official Twitter account has been overhauled. One fan asked...
Rumour Next Need for Speed Game Reveal Imminent, Out in December
Reportedly called Need for Speed Unbound
EA appears to be leaving the announcement of this year's Need for Speed title incredibly late as a new report from Tom Henderson at Insider Gaming says the next entry will release on 2nd December 2022. An official reveal will reportedly take place "within the next two weeks", and the game will be called Need...
Rumour Upcoming Need for Speed, Avatar Games Reportedly Release in November
That's when you'll be able to obtain-y 'em
While many major games are being pushed back into 2023, it's starting to look like 2022 will be sent off with a bang. God of War Ragnarok is heavily rumoured to be releasing in November, and we were meant to get confirmation of that today, though it wasn't to be. However, that's not the only title lining up...
News Criterion Games and Codemasters Cheshire Merge into One Need for Speed Studio
Ex-Evolution team to join Criterion
The next Need for Speed is still shrouded in mystery, but we do know one thing for certain: Criterion Games is leading development on the project. Rumoured to be current-gen only, the upcoming racer will be yet another refresh for the series, which has struggled to align itself properly for years. Hopefully this...
Rumour New Need for Speed Is Current-Gen Only, Leaving PS4 in the Dust
Reportedly no longer cross-gen
Did you forget a new Need for Speed is on the way? We wouldn't blame you; it was confirmed to be in development in June 2020, with only the briefest of glimpses at EA Play Live. We've heard next to nothing since — save for some super early leaked footage — but it's apparently heading our way towards the end of this...
News Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Chases Down EA Play Release
Subscribers can download later this month
Criterion’s revitalised racer Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered will be the next title added to the EA Play vault, starting 24th June for all members. As is always the case with the service, members will be able to download and play the cops-and-racers classic at no extra cost, as long as they retain...
News Five Need for Speed Games Pulled from PS Store Permanently
Servers go offline in August
Five Need for Speed games spanning the PlayStation 3 generation have been taken off the PS Store permanently, with little to no warning from publisher EA. As confirmed in a Reddit post yesterday, the five titles were removed from the storefront that very same day. The games were Need for Speed: Carbon,
News Need for Speed Delayed, Developer Criterion to Support DICE on Battlefield 6
But it'll return to racing series after
The next game in Electronic Arts' Need for Speed franchise has been delayed. After the release of Need for Speed Heat, Criterion Games replaced Ghost Games as lead developer on the series. It's been tinkering away at the racer for new consoles like PlayStation 5, a very brief glimpse of which we saw during an...
News Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Getting Livery Editor, Performance Boost for PS5
Pimp your ride
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered brought back one of the better entries in the series on PlayStation 4, with upscaled visuals and all the DLC rolled into one package. It's not the highest effort remaster ever, but the game itself remains a super fun arcade racer. One feature fans of the franchise love is customising vehicles,...
News Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Confirmed for Release This November
Plus reveal trailer
Update: As expected, EA has now confirmed that Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered will speed onto PS4 on 6th November 2020. It will indeed support cross-play and contain all major DLC. It'll cost £34.99/$39.99 and is already available for pre-order on the PlayStation Store. Check out the announcement trailer above if you're...
News EA Gearing Up for Need for Speed Announcement on Monday
Presumably Hot Pursuit remaster
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered, aka the worst kept industry secret right now, could be officially announced very soon indeed. EA has opened up a teaser page on the official Need for Speed website, with the number 510 everywhere and a countdown ending on 5th October. This follows a handful of social posts from...
News Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Has Now Been Rated in Korea
Just announce it, EA
Sometimes, you just can't keep secrets from getting out. It happens every now and again. By now, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered is definitely a thing, and EA might as well just spill the beans. The existence of the game was first reported by VentureBeat, and it has since appeared in listings on Amazon UK. Now, the...
News Rumoured Remaster of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Appears on Amazon UK
All but confirmed
One of PlayStation 3's best arcade racers is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, the Criterion-developed cops n' robbers game. Released back in 2010, it's also one of the better games in the franchise, which has been pretty lacklustre for the entire PS4 generation. It was rumoured not too long ago that Hot Pursuit may be making a...
News Next-Gen Need for Speed Supposedly Leaked with Super Early Footage
Dev build appears online
Wow, this is pretty nuts. If it's legitimate -- and given the gameplay in the above video, we're not sure how it couldn't be -- this appears to be crazy early footage of the next Need for Speed. Criterion Games is currently working on a next-gen NFS title, a snippet of which we saw during EA Play 2020. The above video,...
Rumour Is Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit Remastered Speeding onto PS4?
One report reckons so
Last year, Electronic Arts said it's been cooking up some "exciting remasters of fan favourites". While many interpreted this as a remaster of the Mass Effect trilogy, nothing has really been confirmed since. However, one report claims to know what's next for EA's remaster plans, and it's nothing to do with Commander Shepard...
News The Next Need for Speed Game Is Now in Development
Heat gets cross-play
Last year's Need for Speed Heat wasn't the greatest return to form, but it did just enough to scrape a 7/10 in the Push Square review. It's a pretty good game, although developer Ghost Games will be taking more of a backseat for the franchise's next racing iteration as Criterion Studios heads up production. What's more, EA has...
News Need for Speed Heat Spring Update Adds Free and Premium Cars and Cosmetics
Black market deals
Today sees the arrival of some brand new content in Need for Speed Heat. EA has released a Spring update for its open world racer, and you can claim a bunch of it for free. All you need to do is install the latest patch, and you'll have access to a Black Market Delivery within the game. There, you'll meet Raziel, a dodgy car...
News Criterion to Get Need for Speed Franchise Back on Track
Ghost Games to become support team
The Need for Speed series has had a rocky road lately, and that's no secret. Need for Speed Heat was an improvement, but it wasn't quite the comeback the franchise sorely needed. Not since the days of Criterion's take on Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted has the franchise been truly great. Developer Ghost Games, which...
News Need for Speed Heat Patch 1.03 Fixes Long Load Times and Crashes on PS4
Tuned up
Ghost Games has today released a fresh patch for Need for Speed Heat on PlayStation 4. Taking the game to version 1.03, this update makes some pretty decent improvements to the overall experience. You can download the patch right now -- it's just over 2GB in size. But what does it do? One thing it aims to address is long loading times...
News Need for Speed Heat Quickly Becomes the Most Played Entry This Generation
Speed demon
While it wasn't quite the grandest return for the racing franchise, we liked Need for Speed Heat. It's a pretty good racer that doesn't have as much quality company in the driving space as you might think, which makes this release a bit of a standout. It seems like that factor translated into sales too as developer Ghost Games reports...
Round Up Need for Speed Heat Reviews Show an Improvement on Last Year's Model
First verdicts coming in hot
The Need for Speed franchise hasn't had the best time of it this generation, but it sounds like the latest game gets back on the right track. Need for Speed Heat is out today, and the first reviews are coming online. The consensus seems to be that this is head and shoulders above the loot box-driven Payback, but still...
News Watch the First 30 Minutes of Need for Speed Heat Gameplay Right Now
I SAID RIGHT NOW
If you're still on the fence about Need for Speed Heat, a new gameplay video has arrived on the scene, courtesy of PlayStation Underground. This new footage shows off the first half an hour of the game, in which parts of the story are set up, and you engage in a handful of races. We're not sure if this is a good or a bad thing, but...
News Check Out Need for Speed Heat's PS4 Trophies Right Now
I SAID RIGHT NOW
If you have a need for heat, trophies, and speed, we'd highly recommend taking a look at the Need for Speed Heat trophies. The list of trinkets has made its way online, and it seems like a pretty easy-going road to the Platinum. There are one or two pot holes to watch out for, though. A handful of online trophies require you reach...
