Another confirmation: it is indeed Criterion Games who will be behind the wheel of this new episode of the famous racing series. After the interim of Ghost Games, which counted many defectors from Criterion, the studio of Burnout returns to the serious things; We owe him the episodes Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit in 2010 and Need for Speed: Most Wanted in 2012.
The project could even have been revealed before this fall if the British studio had not had to lend a hand to the soldier Battlefield 2042, whose problematic development has since been widely documented. Meanwhile, Electronic Arts has strengthened the Criterion Games team by merging its Guildford studio with the Codemasters Cheshire team (Onrush), which joined the house stable at the time of the resounding takeover of the parent company in 2021. , for the sum of 1.2 billion dollars.
According to the initial plans of Electronic Arts, which regularly mentioned the project during its financial statements, the release of this episode was to take place in the last quarter of 2022. It remains to be seen whether he was talking about the calendar year or the fiscal year. We should even be quickly fixed.
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