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| NFS Carbon: Geometry cracked! |
Sunday, 14.03.2010 |
 The modder nfsu360, who already released several modding-tools for the NFS series, put a lot of effort in reverse-engineering Need for Speed Carbon and finally managed to crack the geometry of the game!
You can see a couple of impressions from imported cars in NFS Carbon:
Currently nfsu360 is working on the performance data and to get autosculpt working, but all this looks very promising. It's not known yet, when an according modding-tool can be published. As soon as we know more, you'll get to know here.
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| NFS Shift: Exotic Racing Series announced! |
Tuesday, 09.03.2010 |
 Electronic Arts announced today another add-on for Need for Speed Shift: the Exotic Racing Series, containing seven hot new cars, a new race track and over 50 new events - created specifically for these cars including time challenges, endurance and sprint races!
While the Ferrari Racing Pack was only exclusive for the Xbox360, this time the Exotic Racing Series will be available for 10 USD on Xbox360 an Playstation 3. If the add-on will ever make it to the PC is not known yet.
The Exotic Racing Series Pack will contain the following cars:
1. Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
2. BMW M1 Procar
3. GUMPERT apollo
4. Honda NSX
5. McLaren MP4-12C
6. Maserati GranTurismo S
7. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss
The new track Riviera is available in four unique layoutse, each with daring corners, multiple blazing straight-aways and a few hairpins that will push these cars to the limit. Players that complete the package will receive an additional 125 Microsoft gamerpoints or 5 PlayStation Trophies as a reward for undertaking various exciting challenges.
The Exotic Racing Series for Need for Speed Shift will be available on March 18th, 2010 on Xbox360 and Playstation 3.
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| Rumour: NFS Hot Pursuit Remake & NFS Shift 2? |
Saturday, 06.03.2010 |
 Need for Speed all around: Need for Speed World started this weekend its (western)  betaphase, but there are two more NFS titles in the works, which will be released in Q4 2010 and Q1 2011. (We wrote about that here.)
Now we heard a rumour, that this year's NFS will be a Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, possibly a remake of the classic NFS III Hot Pursuit (1998). According to the name, we might can expect the return of police pursuits. It's not known yet, if the game will contain an open world.
If we can believe previous rumours, this might be the title Criterion Games is working on, who are the creators of the successful Burnout-series.
The second game is planned for release in the 1st quarter in 2011. As it seems, it'll be a successor of NFS Shift and possibly carry the name Need for Speed Shift 2. Given the success of NFS Shift this seems to be a logical step of EA.
As soon as we have more information, we'll keep you updated.
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| NFS World: Join the Beta now! |
Monday, 01.03.2010 |
 As recently reported, the Signup for the betaphase of Need for Speed World has started!
The participation is free and all you need is a capable PC. You can sign up for the NFS World beta here:
NFS World Website
You will be notified in the next weeks, whether you will be chosen for the beta.
If you haven't seen it already on our boards:
We got the opportunity to submit e-mail addresses from people of our community to EA, so you have a better chance to receive a beta key.
If you're interested, send us an e-mail to bs@nfsplanet.com or a PM to Shocker, with your e-mail address, you used for the beta signup.
NFS World Beta Keys @ NFS-Planet Boards
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| NFS U: First modded Car for NFS Underground |
Monday, 22.02.2010 |
 nfsu360 did it again and found a way to integrate the worlwide's first modded car in Need for Speed Underground: the BMW M3!
The BMW M3 replaces the Mazda MX-5 Miata.
You can find the car in our download section..
Additionally nfsu360 released the NFS Underground ModTools v1.0, which allows everybody to do modifications on NFS Underground. You can find more details at the NFS Underground Tools-Section:
NFS U: Cars
NFS U: Tools
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| Online Service Shutdown of Carbon and ProStreet for PSP |
Wednesday, 17.02.2010 |
Need for Speed is still being played over the internet. As long as enough players are online, EA keeps the multiplayer servers up and running, but for Need for Speed Carbon and Need for Speed ProStreet on Playstation Portable it'll come to an end: the shutdown for the online services of both games on PSP is scheduled for March 16th, 2010.
Another racing game, Burnout 3: Takedown, is going down too: on April 15th 2010 the online services for Playstation 2 and Xbox will be shut down.
For more information regarding the shutdowns, read this statement from EA:
As background information, the games scheduled for shutdown in March and April 2010 represent less than 0.3% of all peak online players across all EA titles. Despite some people's perception, there is a lot of behind-the-scenes work involved with keeping these older games up and running. We would rather our hard-working engineering and IT staff focus on keeping a positive experience for the other 99.7% of customers playing our more popular games. These decisions to retire games is never easy. The EA development teams and operational staff pour their hearts into these games almost as much as the customers playing them and it is hard to see one retired. We hope you have gotten many hours of enjoyment out of the games and we appreciate your ongoing patronage.
You can find a complete list of shutdowns of EA games in March and April 2010 here:
EA Service Updates
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| NFS Shift: Ferrari Racing Pack released! |
Wednesday, 17.02.2010 |
Today, on February 16th the exclusive Xbox360 Download Pack for Need for Speed Shift was released: the Ferrari Racing Pack! The package contains 10 new Ferraris, 46 new Ferrari-specific events (Hot Laps, Eliminators, Endurance Races and a World Tour) and 125 Gamerpoints.
To give you an impression of the download pack, we have launch video for you:
The following Ferraris are available in this DLC:
1996 Ferrari F50 GT
2005 Ferrari F430 Spider
2005 Ferrari FXX
2005 Ferrari Superamerica
2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
2006 Ferrari F430 Challenge (Online/Quick event only)
2006 Ferrari F430 GTC (Online/Quick event only)
2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
2008 Ferrari California
2008 Ferrari 16M Scuderia Spider
All Ferrari cars are also available online, to compete with your friends and showing your skills in this Italian stallions.
The Ferrari Racing Pack will be available exclusively on Xbox360 for $10.00 or 800 MS Points. (Xbox Live and NFS Shift is required.)
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| NFS Shift: Ferrari Racing Pack announced! |
Tuesday, 09.02.2010 |
Ferrari is back! After a 7 year hiatus the elite automaker and racing brand Ferrari returns to Need for Speed: On February 16th, 2010 players will be able to download the Ferrari Racing Pack for Need for Speed Shift, which contains 10 new hot Ferrari cars.
The Ferrari Racing Pack will be available exclusively on Xbox360 for $10.00 or 800 MS Points. (Xbox Live and NFS Shift is required.)
In addition to the 10 new Ferraris, the Ferrari Racing Series extends the career mode with 46 new Ferrari specific challengees (Hot Laps, Eliminators, Endurance Races and a World Tour) and additional 125 Gamerpoints.
The following 10 Ferraris will be included:
1996 Ferrari F50 GT
2005 Ferrari F430 Spider
2005 Ferrari FXX
2005 Ferrari Superamerica
2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
2006 Ferrari F430 Challenge (Online/Quick event only)
2006 Ferrari F430 GTC (Online/Quick event only)
2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
2008 Ferrari California
2008 Ferrari 16M Scuderia Spider
All Ferrari cars are also available online, to compete with your friends and showing your skills in this Italian stallions.
To give you an impression of these cars, we have a couple of screenshot for you:
Ferrari Racing Series
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| Releasedates of NFS World & other NFS titles |
Tuesday, 09.02.2010 |
Electronic Arts published its third quarter fiscal year 2010 results - apart from financial details, this report also unveils several release dates of upcoming titles.
The interesting thing is, that three new Need for Speed games seem to hit the stores within the 1-2 years:
- Need for Speed World (PC): April-June 2010
- Need for Speed TBA (PC, Console, Handheld): October-December 2010
- Need for Speed TBA (PC, Console): January-March 2011
NFS World is obviously the Online Racer, whose Betaphase will start soon. One of the other two titles might be the Need for Speed developed by Criterion Games? (At least according to several rumours...)
But the third one? According to rumours in 2009 maybe EA Black Box is also working on a new NFS title - could that be true? We will see...
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| NFS Shift: Mod for better Graphics |
Monday, 08.02.2010 |
Need for Speed Shift already has a high graphic quality, but if you want to challenge your performance-beast (also called PC), you might be interested in this mod from BeetleatWar1977: More details, high-resolution textures and full-range HDR-rendering:
Changes by the mod:
- modified HDR: removed the limitations originating from consoles (initially only the TV dynamic range 16-235 was used)
- LOD - mostly disabled
- sight distance increased
- SSAO works with twice the sample count
- motionblur: modified mode when settings are "high" (higher sample count and changed dispersion)
- re-activated several hidden features in shader programs (envmapping and parralax effect)
- modified the generation of shadows (additional shadows at specific objects)
- SSAO extended - is now used for additional objects (the game doesn't use fullscreen SSAO)
- Increased particle effects count and the connected visibility range
- Modified filteroptions of shaders
You can download the mod here, or at PC Games Hardware (German):
NFS Shift: Downloads
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| NFS Shift: Lamborghini Gallardo Spider |
Monday, 08.02.2010 |
The modding-community makes progress: SETHAlpine, who already released the Alpine A410 for Need for Speed Shift, put a lot of effort in modding the game and integrated another car in the game: the Lamborghini Gallardo Spider!
Quite a nice piece of work! You can find the car in our download-section:
NFS Shift: Cars
But also other people make progress. cric is currently working on a F1 mod, which looks very promising:
Let's see, what we can expect in the future. We will keep you updated.
NFS Shift: Cars
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| NFS Shift: Ferrari-DLC for Xbox360? |
Saturday, 06.02.2010 |
According to several rumours, a new Ferrari Add-On is being released this month for Need for Speed Shift on Xbox Live! The 349th issue of the Major Nelson Podcast features an interview with Andy Tudor, who talks about the upcoming Ferrari-DLC:
As it seems the DLC will contain 10 new Ferraris, as well as new achievements and new events in career mode. Of course the Ferraris will be playable online. The cars were hand-picked by the team - it's not known yet, which ones, but these four were announced in the interview:
- Ferrari F430
- Ferrari FXX
- Ferrari California
- Ferrari F50 GT
Ferraris in Need for Speed would be quite a novelty, since it's a brand which was desperately missed in the latest NFS games.
Stay tuned for more..
Major Nelson Podcast (Source)
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| NFS World: Beta Signup & official website started |
Friday, 05.02.2010 |
The official website of Need for Speed World (the suffix "Online" in the name seems to be dismissed) went online: NFS World Webseite
Along with the launch of the website, the signup for the closed beta started. You have to fill out a form to sign up - if you are eligible to get a key for the beta is then in the hands of EA.
Additionally you can find on the NFS World Webseite a new interview with Dave Elton:
NFS World Webseite
Introducing Dave Elton, NFS World Senior Designer
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