And having Criterion who have delivered some of the most amazing experiences in our history and have worked really closely with DICE in the past, come together to help realize the fullness of that ambition was just a no-brainer for us this year. The teams have admirable ambition to be truly creative and innovative experience. We've got DICE Stockholm, DICE LA, Criterion, our technology team in Gothenburg and our entire Frostbite team, quite honestly, focused on making this the best possible Battlefield that can be. One is we have incredible ambition around Battlefield. Mike Hickey, Analyst (The Benchmark Company) The tweets were deleted soon after they were reposted.
On December 4, 2021, a tweet by Helene Kiji, a producer at Criterion whom recently joined the studio having moved on from Gameloft, expressed her thanks for a welcoming gift she received from Criterion. On January 21, 2022, a tweet by Tom Henderson speculated that the release of Criterion's Need for Speed would be within September to October 2022, which is a similar release timeframe for nearly all previous releases in the Need for Speed series, and an October release would place it within the third quarter of Electronic Art's 2023 fiscal year. The tweets highlighted that Codemasters Cheshire - the studio behind both Onrush and DiRT 5 under Codemasters, and previously Evolution Studios prior to their purchase in April 2016 - would be assisting Criterion in the development of the Need for Speed series.
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On February 10, 2022, a series of tweets by Tom Henderson relayed leaked information from an internal Electronic Arts Town Hall meeting. Similar visual effects in a leaked gameplay video published in late 2020 follow Jeff's description of "It's going to be photorealistic, but it's going to have - on top of that - there's going to be like "anime" elements".Ĭlosing his segment about Need for Speed, he said "I imagine you're going to hear about this game pretty soon". It's going to be photorealistic, but it's going to have - on top of that - there's going to be like "anime" elements.Īutolog's appearance in prior Need for Speed games has been as an asynchronous multiplayer leaderboard for friends to compete against each other outside of traditional multiplayer.Criterion wants to make it feel like a real city, even though, it's going to be a fictional city fictionalised version of Chicago: it's called "Lake Shore City".You can customise all your pieces of the car, that's back.Let's start with some of the other stuff: Chicago has previously appeared in Need for Speed: ProStreet and Need for Speed: The Run. He reiterated a previous leak relating to the game's setting potentially being set in Miami, similar to the fictional setting of Need for Speed: Heat, but backtracked on the validity on the information given to him at the time, and denounced it in episode 42.įollowing the correction for the game's location, he began listing features and aspects he felt confident were present in the upcoming game, as well as the game taking place in a fictionalised rendition of Chicago called "Lake Shore City". We can confirm Criterion Games and the development team at Codemasters Cheshire are officially coming together to create the future of forming one Criterion studio with two location hubs. They were formally Evolution Studios, having worked on the Motorstorm series and Drive Club. The Codemasters Cheshire team is based in Runcorn and developed DIRT 5. On May 11, 2022, the official Codemasters Twitter account posted a series of tweets announcing the Codemasters Chesire team would be integrating with Criterion Games to work on the Need for Speed series. The game's development was pushed back by a year in March 2021, with Criterion pausing development of their Need for Speed game to assist DICE and their in-development "Battlefield 6", which would later be revealed as Battlefield 2042. Alongside Criterion, Codemasters Cheshire is assisting in development of the game and the Need for Speed series as a whole. įirst announced on Jas part of Electronic Arts' "EA Play Live June 2020" presentation, it was shown during a section about the publisher's next generation series of games, targeting the then unreleased PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S hardware.įollowing its first official reveal in June 2020, it is being developed by Criterion and is described as to "include a new Need for Speed game that is bringing some astounding visual leaps, developed by the Criterion team, who have launched some of the most highly-rated games in franchise history".
Need for Speed (2022) is an upcoming game in the Need for Speed series and has a targeted release window of between September to October 2022.
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