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HOT NEWS: » NFS Undercover for iPhone! (2008-07-16)
| Need for Speed: the Movie? |
Thursday, 24.07.2008 |
 Electronic Arts announced a deal with the United Talent Agency (UTA), the leading Hollywood talent and literary agency. The UTA should help EA to develop and create lage-budget motion pictures and television series based on EA's portfolio, as for example Need for Speed, Army of Two, Dead Space and Mirror's Edge.
EA already has some projects in development, like a feature version of the popular The Sims, a MySims animated television series and an animated DVD feature version of its new title Dead Space to launch with the game.
We will see if we can see a Need for Speed Movie in the cinemas, or a NFS television series some time. First steps in the movie industry were already made with last year's documentary 'Birth of ProStreet', a Making-Of Need for Speed ProStreet.
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United Talent Agency (UTA)
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| NFS UC: Cover Contest |
Wednesday, 23.07.2008 |
 Our affiliate NFSCars is preparing for the upcoming Need for Speed Undercover and set up a Cover Contest! Everyone is in invited to participate, you just have to design a fictional cover for the new Need for Speed game.
Rules:
Feel free to use screenshots from any previous NFS title, pictures of real or imaginary cars, any fonts, original images and program you want! It's up to you, so have at it!
- The final image size is to be 500x750 pixels
- The final image is to be .JPG format.
- Only One Entry Per User is allowed, if you enter more than once, only your first submission will be allowed.
- Contest ends August 20th, 2008.
- Entries should be submitted to me, Linkin, via PM.
All of the images will be saved until the voting or judging takes place, depending on the number of entries.
Be aware, posting your cover for anyone to see and you run the risk of someone stealing your ideas.
The winning entry and author will be displayed in a news announcement on the front page! (pending approval from Mike Geise).
You can find more information about the contest here:
NFS:UC Cover Contest @ NFSCars
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| NFS Undercover for iPhone! |
Wednesday, 16.07.2008 |
There wasn't much news about the latest NFS title: Need for Speed Undercover, but at the EA press converence at the E3 in Los Angeles the game silently slipped in. The game hasn't been announced as you might expected, because NFS Undercover still can't be found in EA's E3 line-up. During EA's presentation of new games for the iPhone they noted the 3D-capabilities and announced among others Need for Speed Undercover for this innovative gaming platform "iPhone"!
Unfortunately there is no information at all, how the game will look like on the iPhone, not to mention when it will be release, but to bring the genre "racing" to the iPhone could be quite interesting..
Under the following link you can find an excerpt of the EA press conference at the E3. At minute 8:25 and 9:10 you should take a closer look. ;)
EA press conference part 7
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| NFS PS: Autobahnring Exhibition Race Day |
Friday, 11.07.2008 |
 Another ProStreet Race Day will be held this weekend: the Autobahnring Exhibition! The Race Day starts on 7/12/2008 5:00:00 PM (PST) and ends on 7/14/2008 4:00:00 PM (PST). As the name already says, the races will take place on the Autobahnring.
Additionally you have the chance to get a Community Race Day 1 Achievement when participating at this Race Day.
The next Race Day is planned for July 26th to 28th, where you can grab the Community Race Day 2 Achievement.
Use the following link to load the Race Day to your Inbox in Need for Speed ProStreet:
Autbahnring Exhibition Race Day
Official website of Need for Speed ProStreet
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| Quiz Challenge 2008 - The Winners |
Thursday, 26.06.2008 |
 A few days ago the NFS-Planet Quiz Challenge 2008 ended. Although it was only online for one week, there were many participants. As it turned out, the questions weren't too easy, because there were quite some people who struggled with some questions. ;)
Anyhow, the prizes are drawn amongst all participants, who could give all right answers. If you are one of the lucky winners, you can see here:
NFS ProStreet Floorsticker
- chrisi
- Final Fanttassy
- blizzark
NFS ProStreet Jacket
- Berxnes
NFS Carbon T-Shirt
- Albtraum205
- BOSSAA1
- RevolutionCHX
- bobbel
- McMomby
EA Keychain
- dominik94
- RoddyPeters
- xturbo
- shadowkhas
- JacktheFlipper
- Winky4
- Gr3g
- TheGreekRacer
- L0u!Gy
- Razerz
Congratulations to all winners!
The winners will be contacted within the next few days by e-mail. Please make sure you've saved your full name and postal address in your NFS-Planet profile, because otherwise we won't be able to send you your prize.
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| NFS UC: Weird rumours - fake! |
Wednesday, 25.06.2008 |
As we already reported, the new NFS will carry the name Need for Speed: Undercover. Our affiliate NFSGame.net received a flyer of the upcoming E3 expo, with some rumours of NFS Undercover. Although the picture looks quite official, the information can be doubted, since it sounds more like a mixup of Burnout and GTA than Need for Speed:
 - 13 car brands and 3 motor brands
- new prize system of getting cars (non-buy)
- detailed non-switched off damage model
- fully arcade physics engine
- 3D smoke technology
- improved graphics engine
- Undercover-Mode offering to carry out time-trial missions with ability to use weapon
- possibility to improving the hero (increase health points, reaction etc)
- night street racing cups
- racing stadium allowing to show improbable tricks in air and get points
- available on Xbox360, PS3, PS2, Wii, PSP and DS
Sounds weird? It is. Weapons in Need for Speed? Stunts in a stadium? Heros? Motorcycles? Ok, Motorcycles sound a little bit plausible, but the rest seems to be very fictional. Even the grammar in this flyer doesn't look very official, so don't take it at face value. An official announcement from Electronic Arts is still missing, but we will keep you informed.
Update:
As presumed, we got confirmation that this flyer is definitely a fake. For more information about the game we will have to wait for the official announcement from EA.
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| Quiz Challenge - last chance! |
Sunday, 22.06.2008 |
The NFS-Planet Quiz Challenge ends today. so you have only this sunday left to participate at the raffle, where you can win the following prizes:
- 3x NFS ProStreet Floorsticker
- 1x NFS ProStreet Jacket
- 5x NFS Carbon T-Shirts
- 10x EA Key Chains
Please note that the Quiz Challenge ends today at midnight GMT+1.
You can find more information here:
Quiz Challenge 2008
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| Next NFS will be NFS: Undercover! (Update) |
Wednesday, 18.06.2008 |
EA's Chef John Ricitello reveiled some details of the next Need for Speed at the William Blair & Company's annual growth stock conference: The game is called Need for Speed: Undercover and has a very strong mission structure, similar to "The Transporter". Additionally it has a huge embedded storyline, so it gets a narrative touch.
Since Ricitello was pretty disappointed with NFS ProStreet, we can hope that EA will learn from its mistakes. According to Ricitello the Need for Speed Dev-Team in Vancouver had been working for eight consecutive years on a 12 month development cycle. Last summer the team was split and now there are two teams on a 24 month cycle. Unfortunately NFS:Undercover will be only 16 months development time, but the next year's NFS will be a full two-year development cycle.
"We were torturing a very talented group of people up in Vancouver, which makes it harder to be as innovative every year. So, I think we are going to get better from here.
"I'm confident that Undercover is a much better game than Pro Street, and I expect that from this point forward they will do a lot better."
So, we will see what we can expect from NFS: Undercover. Maybe this name is only a working title, but the mission-based gameplay sounds quite promising. Already in Need for Speed Porsche you had to solve missions as the Porsche test driver, which kept you on the road. I think NFS: Undercover could be quite fun, if you have to achieve missions and get a good story behind it. :)
Update:
Electronic Arts just confirmed that Need for Speed: Undercover will be the title for the next Need for Speed, as well as there has been restructuring of the dev teams. Stay tuned for more...
Gamesindustry.biz (Source)
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| NFS-Planet Quiz Challenge 2008 |
Sunday, 15.06.2008 |
NFS-Planet starts again a Quiz Challenge! Test your knowledge of Need for Speed! We ask you some simple questions about the Need for Speed series and when you give the right answers, you have the chance to win one of the following prizes!
- 3x NFS ProStreet Floorsticker
- 1x NFS ProStreet Jacket
- 5x NFS Carbon T-Shirts
- 10x EA Key Chains
The Quiz Challenge is open from 2008-06-15 until 2008-06-22. Everyone who gave the right answers automatically participates in the raffle. The winners will be notified by e-mail.
Use the following link to participate at the NFS-Planet Quiz Challenge 2008!
Quiz Challenge 2008
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| Rumour: Christina Milian in the next NFS? |
Friday, 13.06.2008 |
 The official announcement of the next Need for Speed game is still missing on the part of Electronic Arts, but after rumours about the Highway-Battle mode something new comes up: actress and musician Christina Milian may will be part of the next NFS!
Supposedly she made a "Mini-Movie" for EA's next Need for Speed game. It's not clear yet, which role she'll be playing in the game, but on the right sinde you see a picture which could be taken at this shooting.
Christina Milian is 26 years old and known from movies like Love Don't Cost A Thing, Man Of The House and Be Cool, as well as several TV-series. In her music career she made 4 albums and 9 singles. We will see how she will perform in the videogame sector and in which form she will appear in the Need for Speed game.
Here you see some more impressions of Christina Milian:
Christina Milian @ IMDb
Official website of Christina Milian
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