Entries in 'speed' (23)
Sony speeds up PlayStation Store with patch
The new-look PSN store is a mighty fine beast, but it can chug a little.
Virgin begins doubling user broadband speeds
Cable ISP Virgin Media is set to begin rolling out a speed upgrade for customers in 30 towns and cities across the UK.
Funbox and Imp join forces for Wii bundles
UK publisher Funbox Media has teamed up with accessories firm Imp Gaming to produce Combo Packs for Wii.
NFS World closed beta kicks off
EA has officially kicked off the closed beta for experimental online MMO racer Need for Speed World and is welcoming applications from potential new members.
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Ferrari returns to Need for Speed
EA has announced that seven years on from its last appearance in a Need for Speed title, Ferrari is to make a return to the series in the form of ...
EA dates Crysis 2 and key titles
Crysis 2 will be released some time between October and December this year, EA has announced.
EA fronts iPad’s games push
The lofty job of presenting the iPad’s games credentials to the world was handed to EA tonight, with exec Travis Boatman taking to the stage to show off an iPad ...
Need for Speed has "turned the corner"
In an exclusive interview with MCV, EA Europe’s senior VP Jens Uwe Intat has stated that after a troubled few years the Need for Speed IP is back on track.
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A Decade of Christmas Number Ones
2009 is nearly at an end and with it comes the end of the games industry’s most successful ever decade. While each year brings with it a myriad of titles ...
Hornby commits to EA tie-in
Hornby has revealed it will be bringing more Electronic Arts properties to toy shelves in 2010.
Criterion’s Need for Speed in 2010
Publisher EA has confirmed that next year’s iteration of its Need for Speed IP will not be a sequel to either Shift or Nitro but will instead be the still ...
Need for Speed tops 100m sales
Popular racing series Need for Speed has now sold over 100m copies worldwide, publisher EA has revealed, elevating it into an elite group of super-franchises.
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NFS: Nitro gets early release
With its next-gen cousin Need for Speed: Shift still riding high in the UK charts, publisher EA has announced that it has bought forward the release date for it’s ...
UK CHARTS: Need for Speed victorious
Reinventing the Need for Speed franchise was always going to be a bit of a gamble for EA, but it seems that the risk has paid off with Xbox 360, ...
NFS Shift UK Championship announced
Ahead of the release of Need for Speed: Shift on September 18th, publisher EA has teamed up with the UK’s leading games retailer GAME to run a nationwide competition that ...
EA: Need For Speed back on top
Electronic Arts believes Need For Speed: Shift will see the franchise reclaim its crown as king of the racers, after a disappointing showing in 2008.
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November arrival for NFS Nitro
The second prong in EA’s three-tiered reinvention of its massively popular Need for Speed series has been given a firm release date in the UK and US.
Microsoft begins autumn update hype machine
The ability to constantly reinvent how a console works and the functionality it offers has undoubtedly been one of the greatest innovations of the current generation of machines – and ...
Need for Speed reinvention revealed
Following the questions asked of the franchise just this morning, publisher EA has announced that its successful Need for Speed franchise is to get a radical three-SKU revamp in ...
Need for Speed facing the chop?
Various sources across the industry are speculating that EA’s Black Box studio in Canada may soon be closed.
ASA bans iPhone ad
Fashionable global technology firm Apple has been forced by UK advertising watchdog the ASA to pull a TV advert for its iPhone that has been found to paint a misleading ...
EA announces Need for Speed Live event
US publisher Electronic Arts has announced that it will debut a brand new car show based on its popular Need for Speed franchise next year at UK race circuit Brands ...
256MB of internal memory in DSi
Nintendo’s revamped DSi handheld will include 256MB of internal memory, it has been revealed, though half of it will be taken up by downloading the free Opera web browser.
