EA has confirmed the tip of help for Need for Speed Unbound simply over two years after the sport got here out as its developer goes all in on the subsequent Battlefield.
UK studio Criterion Games, best-known for the much-loved Burnout sequence, developed Need for Speed Unbound for launch in December 2022 and not too long ago rounded out its second 12 months of updates. IGN has confirmed with EA that this marks the tip of latest content material for Need for Speed Unbound, and the Need for Speed workforce inside Criterion is now, alongside the remainder of the studio, engaged on Battlefield. The sport will stay on-sale so gamers can proceed to play the bottom sport and all 9 content material drops.
“The Need for Speed workforce at Criterion are becoming a member of their colleagues engaged on Battlefield,” an announcement from Vince Zampella, Head of Respawn & Group GM for EA Studios Organization, despatched to IGN reads.
“As an organization, it was essential to us to take the final 12 months to hearken to our Need for Speed neighborhood 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 deliver the franchise again in new and attention-grabbing methods.”
That’s a moderately obscure trace that Need for Speed will return sooner or later, however it’s unclear when and in what type.
It’s a unique scenario for Dead Space remake and Star Wars: Squadrons developer Motive, which EA informed IGN remains to be engaged on each the way forward for Battlefield in addition to an Iron Man sport. DICE and Ripple Effect, the opposite two studios that type a part of what EA calls Battlefield Studios, are solely engaged on Battlefield.
The Need for Speed information comes as EA begins to disclose extra concerning the new Battlefield, together with a primary official have 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 will probably be launched.
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