Need for Speed World, the free-to-play, massively multiplayer online (MMO) racing game from Electronic Arts, turns two years old today and celebrates with a brand new reveal or free item giveaway each day this week until Friday, July 27.

EA’s venerable racing series, Need For Speed has now reached it’s 18th game in the franchise. Titled “The Run”, tells the tale of Jack – who ends up getting in trouble and must race for his life to pay off the mob. In order to do so, he must travel 3,000 miles from San Francisco to New York to win this race across America and be #1 amongst 199 other drivers.

Race for your life in the NEED FOR SPEED™ THE RUN demo. In the Desert Hills of Nevada you find yourself at the heart of the pack. Battle the unforgiving desert heat and technically demanding terrain as you use all your skills to fight your way to the front in the Lamborghini Gallardo LP 550-2 [...]

Coming out on Xbox Live Marketplace and the Playstation Network comes Need For Speed: The Run. Unfortunately and admitted by EA, there will be no PC version with no specific reason given. If you recall, NFS: Hot Pursuit and SHIFT 2 did not have a PC demo either.   In the demo, you’ll find it [...]

Weather in games can be extremely immersive. It’s what sells the game both at the store and once it’s in the disc drive. When I play an open world game, a driving game, or a first person game – I want the world to bring me in, to truly explore and play in it like [...]

This video is a leak of a promotional video directed specifically for internal promotional use. Our own Scott Ellison II found this video via a NeoGAF thread. What this video is showing is of  a “direct comparison” between real world racing, Forza 3, Gran Turismo 5, and Shift 2 Unleashed.  Apparently this video was only [...]

Then it hit me last night as I went back for Samara’s loyalty mission, the music in Afterlife is not original music created for ME2.

Good news for PC players of Criterion’s NFS game. The 2nd patch has finally been released. Now, while we know the downloadable content will not be seen on PC, Crtierion was kind enough to fix bugs and introduce 3 free DLC cars (also given to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 owners of the game) to [...]