EA Puts Criterion’s Need for Speed Team on Battlefield, Confirms No More Content Coming to NFS Unbound

EA has confirmed the top of assist for Need for Speed Unbound simply over two years after the sport got here out as its developer goes all in on the following Battlefield.

UK studio Criterion Video games, best-known for the much-loved Burnout sequence, developed Need for Speed Unbound for launch in December 2022 and lately rounded out its second 12 months of updates. IGN has confirmed with EA that this marks the top of recent content material for Need for Speed Unbound, and the Need for Speed workforce inside Criterion is now, alongside the remainder of the studio, working on Battlefield. The sport will stay on-sale so gamers can proceed to play the bottom recreation and all 9 content material drops.

“The Need for Speed workforce at Criterion are becoming a member of their colleagues working on Battlefield,” a press release from Vince Zampella, Head of Respawn & Group GM for EA Studios Group, despatched to IGN reads.

“As an organization, it was essential to us to take the final 12 months to hear to our Need for Speed group and use their suggestions to create content material for Unbound. With an elevated understanding of what our gamers need in a Need for Speed expertise, we plan to carry the franchise again in new and fascinating methods.”

That’s a fairly imprecise trace that Need for Speed will return sooner or later, nevertheless it’s unclear when and in what kind.

It’s a distinct scenario for Useless Area remake and Star Wars: Squadrons developer Motive, which EA instructed IGN continues to be working on each the way forward for Battlefield in addition to an Iron Man recreation. DICE and Ripple Impact, the opposite two studios that kind a part of what EA calls Battlefield Studios, are solely working on Battlefield.

The Need for Speed information comes as EA begins to reveal extra concerning the new Battlefield, together with a primary official take a look at pre-alpha gameplay and the institution of Battlefield Labs, the place gamers can take a look at the sport forward of launch. There’s no phrase but on when the sport can be launched.

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