Since the release of the last game Need For Speed Unbound In December 2022, Electronic Arts remained very discreet Around its legendary car game license. Last February, the American publisher reassured fans by confirming that the series was not dead and that Need For Speed would come back in an unprecedented way with an important and impressive return based on (finally) a great listening to the community.
Unfortunately, it must be believed that this promise was still from the wind on the part of the American publisher.
Clap de fin pour Need For Speed ?
In February 2025, Electronic Arts assured that the license Need For Speed was going to come back in the best way and that the series was not dead. The latter was simply at rest to give time to Criterion Games teams to refine her work on the next Battlefield who is expected for The first part of 2026.
The American publisher thus confirmed that the next game Need For Speed was going to benefit of the same preferential treatment that the next Battlefieldwith a big return, important, and a development entirely based on community feedback To create the perfect game.
Alas, it would seem that in a few months, things have changed a lot. According to Matthew Everingham, a contributor to the Speedhunters site, EA a frozen the funding of the Need for Speed license. This explains why the Speedhunters site has not been updated since April 2025. Recall that the site was so far Funded by Electronic Arts. He was closely linked to the license Need For Speed.
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RUMOR: Need for Speed has been shelved by EA.
Longtime Speedhunters contributor Matthew Everingham says EA shelved Need for Speed, and with it, funding for the Speedhunters site.
Adding to it: EA is shutting down NFS Rivals servers on Oct 7.
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Of course, to date, Electronic Arts has not confirmed nothing. A few days ago, the American publisher simply announced that the online servers of the game Need For Speed RivalS (Sorti and 2013) would definitively close from October 7, 2025.
Let us also recall that in the 2000s, Electronic Arts A Bought Studio Criterion Games To recover the legendary license Burnoutfor the sole purpose of kill the latter so as not to overshadow Need For Speed. The developers of Games Criterions were then placed on the production of new games Need For Speedwhile the license Burnout Gradually disappeared.
Since 2008 and the release of Burnout ParadisE, we no longer had the chance to discover new games from this incredible saga. Now, it is Need For Speed who seems to be about to disappearafter many difficult years with games that had completely lost their identity.
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