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Need for Speed: the real winners of 2014’s racing games war

With the Need for Speed franchise returning next year, have the slow starts for 2014's new-gen racing games opened the door for NfS to return to pole position?

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KiwiViper853433d ago

I don't think FH2 should be included in your paragraph about failed racing games. I've never experienced any issues, at launch or today.

It's a great racing game, and should be considered NFS's benchmark.

Bring on Underground 3

sugawalls3433d ago

FH2 was a pretty clean game in terms of features, physics and gameplay. It had a sense of reasoning to carry on playing. Unlike driveclub. This article is flawed.

Ghost games need to deliver this coming year when it comes to NFS. Lets take it back to the underground. Don't EA games like money anymore?

MysticStrummer3433d ago

You need a "sense of reasoning to carry on playing"?

I prefer "fun" to make me keep playing a game. Driveclub has that.

Hakoom3433d ago

i think games like need for speed and burnout are the only good racing games around..
games like forza and gt are just boring.. there is just no action in the game and u just spin like a crazy person in a track..

need for speed and burnout have action in the game.. police.. mayhem everything happening :D
its just more fun
just my opinion

NeoGamer2323433d ago

Have you played Horizon at all? It is an arcade racer along the lines of NFS.

Immorals3433d ago

Forza horizon 2 is my favourite racing game ever, dunno what this article is about!

Underground 2 is my second favourite though, I'd love for nfs to return to that series!

ImAPotato3433d ago

Forza Horizon 2 is also my favorite racing game of all time, and might just be my Game of The Year. Game was phenomenal

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EA Hopes to Use Generative AI to Drive Monetization and Make Development 30% More Efficient

Today Electronic Arts CEO Andrew Wilson provided a look into his ideas for the use of generative AI in the company's development processes.

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thorstein59d ago

I wonder what the next buzz word they'll slap in front of AI to make it sound exciting next? "Generative" as if it's creating its own content. Lol.

Cacabunga58d ago

EA is already dying a painful death..

peppeaccardo58d ago

i have a better idea .. why the whole exec team doesn't get replaced by chat bots ?

just_looken58d ago

Though i agree the ai thing is already in other forms of media there have been ai translations/scripts/voice over and even full ai commercials aired on tv. Ubisoft has created a ai game creator story/vo/music except the building of the game

The new unreal engine has auto terrain creation tools

In the world of greed in which it is winning without any major blow back ai is our future.

everyone want's biden dead on the mic or a criminal instead of a woman and now we are getting ai everything because no one will stop watching/playing ai created media.

GamerRN58d ago

Maybe they should just focus on making good games?

Just a thought...

Kiryu199257d ago

Exactly EA are just pure evil. When they are beating Bank of America to be voted the worst company to work for that’s saying a lot

Good thing I don’t buy their games day one and wait for deep deep sale years after launch (the select few games I am actually interested in)

Gaming is making so much money yet the greed of these companies is never ending

CEO’s and people on board making millions yet cutting jobs to those who are actually making the products

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Knightofelemia58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

EA is still a shady shitty company even with or without the help of Skynet. All they will use AI for is new ways to milk loot boxes and come up with the same sports title with a different year on the label. They are one company I truly do hate with a passion. They single handedly ruined some great franchise with their death touch. ME, Dead Space, Alice Returns, Dante's Inferno.

Stuart575658d ago

EA layoffs followed by 'Generative AI to Drive Monetization'

I knew it. Wonder what AI salary looks like? Nothing.

ChasterMies58d ago

I having a feeling that most of the layoffs in the industry are based on the idea that AI will do the same job for less.

DarXyde57d ago

Very likely, yes.

Made worse by the fact that the execs aren't changing their compensations.

My deepest fear at this point is that we are now in the capitalism endgame.

At this point, we really should just burn AI to the ground. Executives cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
How are those people expected to support families if everything gets automated?

Barlos58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

And take away creativity, and people's jobs as we've been seeing. Got it.

No thanks. I want my games created by people, not AI.

CobraKai58d ago

Exactly. If or when games start becoming more AI than people, im done with gaming. AI and companies like EA can suck donkey d***k.

just_looken58d ago

Though i agree remember this is no ps3/360 era were we got up to 3 games in one generation from on developer like gears/halo/bioware/sony/ms

The people today are pro esg/sweet baby for the most part AAA gaming is imploding right now.

We should be stepping back re evaluate everything as a whole this year xmen 97 written/directed by a woman that is nuts and its also being made by a group reshaping bodies to be less sexual like wtf. A dam famous cartoon from the 90's is being rebuilt with millions spent to be worse in everyway.

Gaming/movies/tv shows made today are worse than what we had 7years ago ai won't change this but that ai is also being made by these groups so either way we are screwed.
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Eonjay57d ago

Don't be of afraid of women. Sexy characters in games and movies still exist. Got my Stellar Blade on preorder!!! Everything all the time doesn't need to be sexual...that's stupid, childish and dull.

Chocoburger58d ago (Edited 58d ago )

EA doesn't want to lose their title of worst gaming company ever, always trying their best to remain the champs!
What's sad is that they have so much potential to be a decent publisher.

SSX Tricky / SSX 3
Def Jam Vendetta / Fight for New York
NBA Street
NFL Steet
Mirror's Edge
Bad Company
Burnout 3 / 4 / 5

Remember when EA used to be awesome? It's all over with now. Unpolished, if not out-right broken games these days. Endless monetization and gambling in their sports games, and let's not forget wasting hours of your life trying to unlock characters or equipment using "surprise boxes!"

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EA And Sony Layoffs, Entertainment News And More Skewedcast

Gareth, Justin, and JoeyZ look at Layoff news for EA and Sony and reasons behind the downturn in the industry and more.

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Top 10 Iconic Cars In The Need For Speed Games

The Nerd Stash: "Here are the best iconic cars in the Need For Speed games that have become the signature of this franchise in the past two decades."

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