Need for Speed Carbon

EA has announced that the Need for Speed franchise has surpassed 100 million units sold life to date. The recent release of Need for Speed Shift pushed the franchise over the 100M mark, making it the best-selling racing brand in the gaming world. The franchise has generated over $2.7 billion in life-to-date sales.

Console Monster writes: The first titles have launched for the Xbox 360 Games on Demand. The seven titles are now available to Xbox Live members that were fortunate enough to obtain a place in the Preview Program. What's interesting about the titles is the game's pricing, which is listed in pound and pence, rather than in Microsoft Points. The titles currently available are as follows: Call of Duty 2 - £19.99 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion - £19.99 Need for Speed Carbon - £19.99 LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga - £19.99 Mass Effect - £19.99 Viva Piñata - £19.99 Assassin's Creed - £19.99 The remaining Games on Demand titles, revealed yesterday, will be rolled out over the next few days, before the new dashboard update is available to all Xbox Live users on the 11th August...

Last night Microsofts controversial Games on Demand service went live. The games on demand service promises to deliver full retail Xbox 360 games for download and play straight to your hard drive.

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.

As part of a seasonal anti drunk-driving campaign, the Scottish Government is this week allocating some £10,000 GBP to the integration of advisory public information adverts onto videogame billboards found in the likes of Project Gotham Racing 4, Need for Speed: Carbon, and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008.

Oct 18, 2007 Science (by which we mean the few 'facts' we've picked up on Wikipedia) suggests that gaming improves hand-eye-coordination and problem solving. Even so, defeating alien invasions or rearranging pipes to hack vending machines isn't going to bag you a career. Or is it? In actual fact, it seems online gaming might land you a job as a spook. The government's secret services have teamed up with in-game ad company Massive, and during October they aim to target recruitment adverts at

EA financials have shown that a new addition to the racing series is on its A rather lengthy document detailing EA's financials has highlighted the fact that a new Need For Speed game is set for release at some point in 2007. When Pro-G contacted EA no other details on the game were available.

This list was compiled by Gamersfeast using data from Microsoft's website. 1. Need for Speed Carbon - $35.73 - Electronic Arts 2. The Godfather - $30.80 - Electronic Arts 3. Test Drive Unlimited - $30.61 - Atari 4. Oblivion - $24.11 - Bethesda 5. Chromehounds - $23.74 - Sega 6. Call of Duty 2 - $14.99 - Activision 7. Tiger Woods 07 - $14.24 - Electronic Arts 8. Ridge Racer 6 - $11.99 - Namco 9. Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell - $11.24 - Ubisoft 10. Eragon - $10.00 - Vivendi Games 10. Kameo - $10.00 - Microsoft 10. PGR 3 - $10.00 - Microsoft

Here is the list of the latest review scores from Famitsu. The complete list: Motorstorm (PS3, Sony): 8 / 8 / 8 / 6 - (30/40) Sonic The Hedgehog (PS3, Sega): 8 / 7 / 7 / 7 - (29/40) Lost Planet: Extreme Condition (Xbox 360, Capcom): 9 / 9 / 9 / 9 - (36/40) Sonic The Hedgehog (Xbox 360, Sega): 8 / 7 / 7 / 8 - (30/40) Seiken Densetsu 4 (PS2, Square Enix): 7 / 8 / 8 / 7 - (30/40) Madden NFL 07 (PS2, EA): 7 / 8 / 7 / 5 - (27/40) Monster 4X4: World Circuit (Wii, Ubisoft): 7 / 6 / 7 / 8 - (28/40) A Ressha de Ikou HX (Xbox 360, Artdink): 7 / 6 / 7 / 7 - (27/40) Metal Gear Portable Ops (PSP, Konami): 9 / 10 / 9 / 9 - (37/40) Tales of The World: Radiant Mythology (PSP, Bandai Namco): 8 / 7 / 8 / 7 - (30/40) Nounai Aesthe: IQ Suppli DS (NDS, Spike): 7 / 7 / 6 / 6 - (26/40) Heisei Kyouiku Iinkai DS (NDS, Bandai Namco): 6 / 9 / 7 / 6 - (28/40) Need for Speed Carbon (PS2, EA): 8 / 8 / 7 / 7 - (30/40) Need for Speed Carbon (PS3/Xbox 360, EA): 9 / 9 / 8 / 8 - (34/40) Need for Speed Carbon (Wii, EA): 8 / 7 / 6 / 7 - (28/40) Need for Speed Carbon (PSP, EA): 8 / 8 / 7 / 8 - (31/40) School Love! (PS2, Views): 6 / 6 / 6 / 6 - (24/40) Intelligent License 2 (PSP, Now Production): 7 / 9 / 7 / 8 - (31/40) NBA Live 07 (PSP, EA): 7 / 8 / 7 / 7 - (29/40) Hamster to Kurasou (NDS, Interchannel): 6 / 6 / 5 / 5 - (22/40)

Need for Speed Carbon is streaking to Xbox 360 next month - and PS3 next year - and so we've hauled out a garageful of images that show off the next-gen speedster's gleaming visuals and super-sharp supercars in action. Cruise over the Images tab above to see them all. With the game's "crew" add-on, where you can call in a member of your growing underground clique to disrupt rivals or help your racing, Carbon at least steps away from the pattern of previous games. And the new canyon racing is