EA leaks its own Need for Speed: Unbound reveal

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Need for Speed: Unbound
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Need for Speed: Unbound is the title of the next entry in EA's venerable racing series, according to art leaked from the publisher's own website.

Today, EA announced that the new Need for Speed will be officially revealed on October 6 at 8am PDT / 11am EDT / 4pm BST on YouTube. (That's less than 48 hours away, as this story goes live.) "Be amongst the first to see the evolution of Need for Speed," the video description suggests. "Go fast and get noticed in the latest installment from veteran developer Criterion Games."

Fans quickly dug through the official Need for Speed website to discover a piece of key art for Need for Speed: Unbound, revealing the title for the new game several days early. The image shows a car burning rubber through city streets - as you'd expect from the series - kicking up smoke that's filled with anarchy symbols and dollar signs.

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In a recent financial report, EA listed the next Need for Speed title for launch in its third financial quarter for 2022, meaning the game is expected to launch between October 1 and December 31 of this year. We've also learned that Dirt and Grid studio Codemasters will be assisting Criterion on the new NFS.

Unofficially, rumors have suggested that this new game will be a new-gen exclusive. Either way, it looks like we can say one thing for sure: in terms of racing game names, Ridge Racer Unbounded was a decade ahead of its time.

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Dustin Bailey
Dustin Bailey
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Dustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.