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Need for Speed EXPAND STORY TEXTSSubscribe to this tag Plan on seeing Criterion's Need for Speed game next year 12 The revitalization of Need for Speed as a franchise must be going well, because the Criterion-developed NFS game is very much alive and kicking. You can look, but you can't touch. Wait, no -- you... Ten Minute Taste: Need for Speed: NITRO 9 Electronic Arts' Wii-exclusive racer, Need for Speed: NITRO hits, hits stores today and here are the first ten minutes of gameplay.  Color me surprised when, not long after booting up the g... NFS series reaches 100 million sold and other crazy facts 10 The Need for Speed franchise has hit an impressive 100 million copies sold, a feat EA says only four other videogame brands have managed to accomplish. The game to push the series over the mark w... Need for Speed: Nitro's release gets pushed up 3 While Need for Speed: Shift may be seemingly pushed to the wayside by Forza Motorsport 3, EA's next attempt at finding a NFS game that will stick, Need for Speed: Nitro, may find more success. It... Need for Speed: Nitro screens have cars 6 Those of us unhappy with Need for Speed: Shift's shift to a more "realistic" style of racing and overall general crappyness might actually be looking forward to a Wii racer that isn't d... Confirmed: Need for Speed: Nitro has a yellow bus 14 Wii-exclusive Need for Speed: Nitro is happening and coming in November courtesy of developer EA Montreal, the same studio behind Army of Two: the 40th Day, and Slightly Mad Studios. As with most... Need for Speed: Shift demo available Thursday 11 Electronic Arts has announced that a demo for Need for Speed: Shift will be available on Xbox LIVE Marketplace and PlayStation Network this Thursday, October 1.  The demo will let you g... NFS: Shift crashing on Xbox 360, tries to access PSN!? 55 This is absolutely hilarious. A ridiculous and peculiar glitch in EA's new racing title, Need for Speed: Shift, has allegedly been unearthed, and it's amazing. The title supposedly contains a gam... Grab the Need for Speed: Shift PC demo while it's hot 4 Didn't win Need for Speed: Shift from our Twitter party? Don't fret! Actually, you have my permission to fret a little, but it's all going to be alright. So long as you have a capable PC, you can... Need for Speed: Shift Twitter party at 3pm. Be there! 8 It's Friday afternoon and there's a PS3 Slim that needs to be in somebody's hand. At 3pm Central, Destructoid is hosting its third Twitter party in association with Need for Speed: Shift. We have... Need for Speed: Shift Twitter party get! Win a PS3 Slim! 15 I heard you like Twitter parties? Of course you do, and this Friday we have yet another one for you. As usual, Destructoid will be teaming up with Rocket XL in order to provide an afternoon of pr... GC 09: new Need for Speed SHIFT screenshots 4 When it comes to racing games, I'm usually more of a sim kind of guy than I am a fan of arcade-style driving. I've enjoyed what I've played from Need for Speed series well enough, but as its entr... Why Need for Speed: SHIFT sounds dirty plus a bonus video 2 You know how when you first get up in the morning, when you sit down by your computer with coffee or soda in hand, and you attempt to check your email or read a Web site? Your brain is still half... Need For Speed: NITRO customization options look neat 3 Earlier today, Grim mentioned that the groups tokidoki, Upper Playground and i am 8-bit were contributing art and tools for use in creating custom car designs in Need For Speed: NITRO. Now, EA ha... NFS: NITRO bringing in the big guns for added style 7 Need for Speed: NITRO is already looking to be quite colorful and stylish from what we have seen so far, but EA Montreal is taking it one step further by bringing on tokidoki, Upper Playgr... SDCC: Hands on with Need for Speed: Nitro 30 We had the chance to take Need for Speed: Nitro for a spin on the Wii at an EA preview event in San Diego a day before Comic-con officially kicked off.  This was the first time we were able ... Need for Speed: NITRO hits Wii and DS this November 4 Can you feel it yet? Can you feel the pile of videogame releases being crammed into the September through November time slot? It's time to start saving up, or you could always do what I do: pick ... Need for Speed: Shift getting real drifters to consult 6 If it was unclear from our previous writing on the subject, Need for Speed: Shift is a serious racing game and is going for a realistic drift racing feel. Ever since the game was announced EA has... EA Games Europe boss trash talks NFS: SHIFT's competition 8 If there was one genre that came out super strong at E3, it was undoubtedly racing games. With Forza Motorsport 3, Need for Speed: SHIFT, DiRT 2, Blur, Split/Second, and more, there are going to ... A Criterion-developed Need for Speed is in the works 12 It's been nearly a month since we last reported on the rumors, but it finally happened: someone confirmed the existence of a Need for Speed title being developed by Criterion Games. That someone ... EA announces tons of cars and tracks for NFS SHIFT 12 You probably weren’t worrying, but just in case, we can now confirm that the retail version of Slightly Mad Studios’ Need for Speed SHIFT will have cars and tracks. Yesterday, Electro... Pre-E3 09: New Need For Speed SHIFT trailer debuts 15 I have to hand it to the Need For Speed SHIFT marketing team. All of their trailers for the game so far have been about the cars and nothing else. The only sounds you hear are the roar of the eng... Rumortoid: Criterion developing its own Need for Speed title 9 Could a Criterion Games-developed Need for Speed be on the cards for a 2010 release? Seeing as how EA is currently overseeing the production of not one, but three separate NFS games, I'm willing ... Need for Speed SHIFT dated for a September release 4 Need for Speed SHIFT, Slightly Mad Studios/Black Box's take on the long-lived series, has been dated for release on September 17 for Europe, and the 22nd for North America.Considering how ... Need for Speed: Shift goes simulation all over our asses 22 If you were never able to understand what all the Need for Speed fuss was about, it's high time you started paying attention to the series. Some of you may recall that the franchise was given a m... EA relaunching the Need for Speed series with three new games this year 9 The Need for Speed series is getting a major overhaul in 2009, EA has told Eurogamer. Currently, the plan is to release three distinct games, all of which tackle different audiences: Shift (360, ... Hot new Nissan 370Z revealed by way of Need for Speed: Undercover 12 [video]109594:630[/video] It seems stylin' cars and videogames are a match made in heaven, as Nissan has partnered with EA to debut the all-new 2009 Nissan 370Z not on a racetrack, but in Need fo... Need for Speed: Undercover aims to take Cops and Robbers to the extreme 11 [video]106848:503[/video] Races, in a racing game? OLD! Cops and Robbers in a racing game? Uh, new ... I think? Well, at least it's new for the Need for Speed series, anyway.Need for Speed: Under... Vomiting zombie exclusive, Jenny McCarthy on tonight's GameTrailers TV 8 Each week I lament the fact that Spike TV airs GameTrailers TV in the middle of the night, when I'm either sleeping or obliterated from a night of drinking and Rock Band. But the show is actually... Maggie who?: Maggie Q featured in just-announced Need for Speed: Undercover 18 Who's Maggie Q? She's an international model/actress that has appeared in Mission: Impossible III and Live Free or Die Hard. And she was at a Need for Speed Undercover event Electronic Arts held ... The Need for Speed: Undercover teaser will make you think it's a Hollywood movie 11  Seriously. I thought this teaser trailer was promoting an upcoming motion picture based on the Need For Speed series. As it turns out, it's a teaser for the next game in the Need For Speed ... Need for Speed: Undercover to take cues from action film The Transporter? 14 According to Jeux France, Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello has revealed that the next Need for Speed title -- apparently called Need for Speed: Undercover -- will be inspired by the 2002 acti... EA pulls out of nude Need for Speed: ProStreet promotion 18 Remember yesterday when Nex told us about EA's use of bare breasts to promote Need for Speed: ProStreet? Who could forget, right? Well, now it sounds like EA would like you to forget it all. Acco... Breasts are awesome: uncut Need for Speed: ProStreet promo proves as much 45 Normally I'm really highbrow. I wear a smoking jacket at entirely inappropriate times, fill my pipe with the shredded remains of a Jane Eyre first edition and often refer to cars as "horsele... Need for Speed: Pro Street demo joins Guitar Hero III demo on Xbox Live 12 Fast cars? Loud guitars? Sounds like a typical Destructoid weekend. But, it's only Tuesday, and we're certainly not complaining. A demo for Electronic Art's Need for Speed: Pro Street has hit Xbo... EA drags out some new, smokin' Need for Speed Pro Street screens 3 Drag racing makes its triumphant return in this year's Need for Speed Pro Street, and it looks smokier than ever, thanks to hot tires and next-generation hardware. In Pro Street, the drag racing ... Need for Speed: ProStreet looks impossibly gorgeous, we're not fooled 14 EA just hit us with some screens of the next installment of their popular racing franchise, Need for Speed: ProStreet, and it looks hot. Now, before we all start ranting about how there's no ... Need for Speed 2007 teaser; guess what stitches on a phallic metaphor mean ... 21 Yeah, I have no idea either. Then again, trying to decipher the subtext in an EA video game is akin to debating postmodern minimalist architecture after reading the back of a copy of Maxim maga... Crazy Frog Racer 2, or what I like to call: WTF? 22 Apparently I've really been missing the kind of killer apps that are out there, because no one ever told me there was a Crazy Frog Racer! You know Crazy Frog, right? That ringtone phenom? A... Want a PS3 or Wii? Get one this weekend 25 You may have heard this passed around, but now USA Today is reporting that stores will unleash their PlayStation 3 and Wii supplies this weekend. What does that mean for us? It means a whole lot... EA's Need For Speed Carbon microtrannies 10 What do Mario trannies and Microtrannies have in common? They both cost money, and they both suck. I asked forum-goers to think up a more fitting name for microtransactions and reader CrackerlyS... Hot chicks wanted, new Need for Speed confirmed 14 Fans of the Need for Speed series can breathe easy knowing that another iteration of the game is in the works. ... As if there were any question. FHM Magazine and Electronic Arts have teamed u...		Save cash!   See "Black Friday" video game deals New on Destructoid.TV play all videos Loading Destructoid Videos Win this! 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