EA has announced that the Need for Speed franchise has surpassed 100 million units sold life to date.
WorthPlaying writes: "Need for Speed Undercover is an intense action racing title taking the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces breakneck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles. The free Challenge Series DLC adds 60 events, two new game modes and three new cars, now also on PC"
After the recent release of the PS3 version of the Challenge DLC for Need For Speed: Undercover, the PC version is finally available for download. It's free by the way
Black Box, a division of Electronic Arts, has today announced the release of two new content packs for Need for Speed Undercover. These packs will be "The Challenge Series", which is free and will feature 60 events and two new game modes (you can also earn up to three new cars now), and "The premium Boss Car" pack, which will give you access to Undercover's specially boss vehicles, in exchange for $5.00 (corresponding to 400 MS points).
WorthPlaying writes: "Need for Speed Undercover is an intense action racing title taking the franchise back to its roots and re-introduces breakneck cop chases, the world's hottest cars and spectacular highway battles. The free Challenge Series DLC adds 60 events, two new game modes and three new cars, while the premium Boss Car pack will add specially customized boss vehicles."
Remember Amy and Becky in Need for Speed ProStreet naked photo session in The Sun? Electronic Arts did it again. This time it was Need for Speed: Undercover. The model was chosen from fotka.pl (Polish photo site) and photo session was published in CKM (sort of Polish Maxim). Video promoting this material (NSFW) can be found on Polygamia
The developers of Need for Speed Undercover have listened to their fans. The difficulty of the game and the frame rate were the chief concerns of the user base and thus became the chief focus of the patch that was just released.
Kotaku: Inside sources tell us that Black Box is nearing completion on a patch for Need For Speed Undercover, despite rumors that the franchise faces the chopping block.
Electronic Arts is the focus of attention for both analysts and gamers as 2008 is closing. The publisher, which is already facing stiff competition from Activision Blizzard and Ubisoft, has seen worse than expected results in the last month, deciding to lay off more than 1,000 people, about 10% of its workforce, while also closing down or consolidating a lot of studios, including Need for Speed: Undercover developer Black Box. New intellectual properties like Dead Space, a space based horror shooter, and Mirror's Edge, the free running DICE developed title, have failed to make the impact that the company had hoped for.
EA has signed on with Valve's highly popular digital distribution program Steam to distribute their games including recent releases, and with some added good news. Titles such as Spore and Mass Effect that have come under heavy fire for DRM usage, will no longer have any SecuROM protection. All games will use Steam's DRM.
Many years ago there was a video games crash in which any developers and publishers went bust almost every week. It was a slump for video gaming and the industry took years to recover. With the current economic crisis it has been speculated that we too would see a crash in the market, and it looks true.
Black box, the studio responsible for the Need for Speed and Skate franchises has officially been given the chop. EA has said in a press release
An anonymous EA official clears up some details as to what is really happening with EA and the Need For Speed series.
The folks at EA Black Box has announced that they will be releasing a patch soon for their latest release, Need For Speed: Undercover.
Like many gaming corporations, EA has been hit with the reality of a declining economy, and is bit-by-bit cutting back on their expenses. News has emerged across the net, claiming that EA's Black Box division will be eventually shut down, meaning that future Need For Speed titles may soon see no light of day.
ELSPA (Entertainment and Leisure Software Publishers Association) today announced the list of videogames vying for the number one spot this Christmas. And leading bookmaker Ladbrokes makes Call of Duty: World at War its 1/3 favourite for the festive accolade...
Santa Claus is back and that is also a nice moment to see what the game was popular during the search for gifts goedheiligman in the Netherlands. Besides Call of Duty World at War for all platforms is also Mario Kart for the Nintendo Wii and Grand Theft Auto for the PC very popular.
Need for Speed Undercover maybe is not the best racing game but the Japanese distributor is doing a great job with a promotional web game based on Google Maps. The first who will fin a Porsche in the tokyo map will win 1 million yen!
November the 18th is finally here and the 12th installation of Need for Speed, NFS: Undercover, is finally here. Unfortunately only North Americans are getting to enjoy the game, but don't despair because the European release is less than 3 days away from now.