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| NFS Shift: Ferrari Racing Pack announced! |
Tuesday, 09.02.2010 |
 Ferrari is back! After a 7 year hiatus the elite automaker and racing brand Ferrari returns to Need for Speed: On February 16th, 2010 players will be able to download the Ferrari Racing Pack for Need for Speed Shift, which contains 10 new hot Ferrari cars.
The Ferrari Racing Pack will be available exclusively on Xbox360 for $10.00 or 800 MS Points. (Xbox Live and NFS Shift is required.)
In addition to the 10 new Ferraris, the Ferrari Racing Series extends the career mode with 46 new Ferrari specific challengees (Hot Laps, Eliminators, Endurance Races and a World Tour) and additional 125 Gamerpoints.
The following 10 Ferraris will be included:
1996 Ferrari F50 GT
2005 Ferrari F430 Spider
2005 Ferrari FXX
2005 Ferrari Superamerica
2006 Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
2006 Ferrari F430 Challenge (Online/Quick event only)
2006 Ferrari F430 GTC (Online/Quick event only)
2007 Ferrari 430 Scuderia
2008 Ferrari California
2008 Ferrari 16M Scuderia Spider
All Ferrari cars are also available online, to compete with your friends and showing your skills in this Italian stallions.
To give you an impression of these cars, we have a couple of screenshot for you:
 Ferrari Racing Series
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| Releasedates of NFS World & other NFS titles |
Tuesday, 09.02.2010 |
 Electronic Arts published its third quarter fiscal year 2010 results - apart from financial details, this report also unveils several release dates of upcoming titles.
The interesting thing is, that three new Need for Speed games seem to hit the stores within the 1-2 years:
- Need for Speed World (PC): April-June 2010
- Need for Speed TBA (PC, Console, Handheld): October-December 2010
- Need for Speed TBA (PC, Console): January-March 2011
NFS World is obviously the Online Racer, whose  Betaphase will start soon. One of the other two titles might be the Need for Speed developed by Criterion Games? (At least according to several rumours...)
But the third one? According to rumours in 2009 maybe EA Black Box is also working on a new NFS title - could that be true? We will see...
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| NFS Shift: Mod for better Graphics |
Monday, 08.02.2010 |
Need for Speed Shift already has a high graphic quality, but if you want to challenge your performance-beast (also called PC), you might be interested in this mod from BeetleatWar1977: More details, high-resolution textures and full-range HDR-rendering:
Changes by the mod:
- modified HDR: removed the limitations originating from consoles (initially only the TV dynamic range 16-235 was used)
- LOD - mostly disabled
- sight distance increased
- SSAO works with twice the sample count
- motionblur: modified mode when settings are "high" (higher sample count and changed dispersion)
- re-activated several hidden features in shader programs (envmapping and parralax effect)
- modified the generation of shadows (additional shadows at specific objects)
- SSAO extended - is now used for additional objects (the game doesn't use fullscreen SSAO)
- Increased particle effects count and the connected visibility range
- Modified filteroptions of shaders
You can download the mod here, or at PC Games Hardware (German):
NFS Shift: Downloads
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| NFS Shift: Lamborghini Gallardo Spider |
Monday, 08.02.2010 |
The modding-community makes progress: SETHAlpine, who already released the Alpine A410 for Need for Speed Shift, put a lot of effort in modding the game and integrated another car in the game: the Lamborghini Gallardo Spider!
Quite a nice piece of work! You can find the car in our download-section:
NFS Shift: Cars
But also other people make progress. cric is currently working on a F1 mod, which looks very promising:
Let's see, what we can expect in the future. We will keep you updated.
NFS Shift: Cars
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| NFS Shift: Ferrari-DLC for Xbox360? |
Saturday, 06.02.2010 |
According to several rumours, a new Ferrari Add-On is being released this month for Need for Speed Shift on Xbox Live! The 349th issue of the Major Nelson Podcast features an interview with Andy Tudor, who talks about the upcoming Ferrari-DLC:
As it seems the DLC will contain 10 new Ferraris, as well as new achievements and new events in career mode. Of course the Ferraris will be playable online. The cars were hand-picked by the team - it's not known yet, which ones, but these four were announced in the interview:
- Ferrari F430
- Ferrari FXX
- Ferrari California
- Ferrari F50 GT
Ferraris in Need for Speed would be quite a novelty, since it's a brand which was desperately missed in the latest NFS games.
Stay tuned for more..
Major Nelson Podcast (Source)
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| NFS World: Beta Signup & official website started |
Friday, 05.02.2010 |
 The official website of Need for Speed World (the suffix "Online" in the name seems to be dismissed) went online: NFS World Webseite
Along with the launch of the website, the signup for the closed beta started. You have to fill out a form to sign up - if you are eligible to get a key for the beta is then in the hands of EA.
Additionally you can find on the NFS World Webseite a new interview with Dave Elton:
NFS World Webseite
Introducing Dave Elton, NFS World Senior Designer
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| NFS Shift: $30K Tournament on GGL Global Gaming |
Thursday, 21.01.2010 |
We wanted to give you a quick reminder of the huge NFS Shift tournament going on at GGL Global Gaming, where, you can win $30,000 toward the car of your choice from AutoTrader.com! Also, the top 4 finalists will receive a trip to Vancouver to compete in the final round of the competition!
All you have to do, is race a top time at one of the listed events. The tournament is open to residents of US and Canada and available an Xbox360 and Playstation 3.
Visit the following links to register and get more information:
NFS Shift Tournament @ GGL.com
Tournament Page on Facebook
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| NFS Shift: First modded car - the Alpine A410 |
Monday, 18.01.2010 |
SETHAlpine put a lot of effort in creating the first modded car for Need for Speed Shift: the Concept WEHRUNG Alpine A410!
 To install the car, you have to extract the files from this ZIP archive to the unpacked version of NFS Shift. Use the NFS Shift Unpacker, to unpack the game. The Alpine A410 replaces the Chevrolet Cobalt. Please read the included readme.txt for further information.
You can download the car here:
NFS Shift: Cars
NFS Shift: Tools
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| Rumour: Need for Speed: Out of the Law - UPDATE: Fake |
Monday, 11.01.2010 |
Update: The information in this news was confirmed to be fake: please scroll down for more information.
As already reported, Criterion Games is working on a new Need for Speed title. There wasn't much information about this game, until now: the russian website NFSUnlimited.ru published possible screenshots of this NFS, which seem to reveil the title of the game: Need for Speed: Out of the Law:
It's not sure, whether we can believe this information or not, but according to the russian website the game will make its turn to street racing. Only this time you won't drive super-expensive exotics, but sports cars like the Nissan Skyline R32, or Mazda MX-5. Another interesting detail: for the first time in the history of the NFS series this game will presumably contain motorcycles! Maybe also SUVs. Additionally you will be able to choose your personal number plate on each machine.
The game will be set in the fictional city Sun-Bay, which will have San Francisco as its prototype. The size of the city should be a bit larger than the one in Need for Speed Undercover.
The police will have an extended vehicle arsenal, presumably patrol motorcycles.
So far, these is quite interesting information, although you have to be very careful with what to believe. It wouldn't be the first time, that people spread false information. Particularly the second screenshot with the BMW seems to be a fake, since it looks like existing pictures from previous NFS titles. As soon as we know more, we'll let you know.
UPDATE: As Criterion Games announced, the pictures and information about this new NFS is definitely a fake and not true. Unfortunately this was expected...
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| NFS U2: BMW M3 v1.2 |
Thursday, 07.01.2010 |
 Additional to the NFS U2 ModTools the modder nfsu360 recently released the BMW M3 v1.2 for the old but still interesting Need for Speed Underground 2:
The BMW M3 replaces the Mazda Miata MX-5. The installation is a bit tricky and requires the NFS-TexEd in its latest version. If you want to try it out, you can download the car here:
NFS U2: Cars
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| NFS U2: ModTools v1.0 released |
Sunday, 03.01.2010 |
nfsu360 released a tool package for Need for Speed Underground 2, containing three useful tools which allow you to apply numerous modifications to the game:
With NFS:U2 Geometry Compiler you can create fully functional mods for NFS Underground 2. You can make all customizations for the cars: vinyls, decals, neons, engine styles, trunk layouts, trunk components, hoods styles, bumpers, side skirts, body kits etc. Also animation for trunk, doors, hoods - working. But it is possible to make a car without these features. Conversion without customizing parts is much easier.
NFS:U2/MW Texture Compiler is a tool for creating NFS: Underground 2 & NFS: Most Wanted textures.bin files. Compiler support .dds files.
DDS file must be compressed as DXT 1 or DXT3. Long names are supported.
NFS-DataEd for NFS: U2 - with this tool you can fix wheel positions for your addons cars and also you can assign 'Manufacturer logo' to your car. You can import exported files using NFS-CfgInstaller.
You can provide NFS-CfgInstaller with your own mod package to allow install configuration data.
This could give the modding community around NFS Underground 2 a new push, as the BMW M3 shows, nfsu360 could successfully convert to NFSU2. But more about that later...
You can download the NFSU2 ModTools v1.0 here:
NFS U2: Tools
nfstools @ Google Project
nfstools Blog
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| NFS Shift: Alpine A410 makes progress |
Sunday, 03.01.2010 |
SETH Alpine made it his business to import the ALPINE A410 in Need for Speed Shift! So far he makes quite some progress, as the latest pictures show:
The Alpine A410 will replace the Chevrolet Cobalt. We will have to expect some limitations, but nevertheless this should be a quite interesting mod. The car is going to be released next week.
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| NFS Shift available for iPhone/iPod Touch |
Monday, 21.12.2009 |
Need for Speed Shift was released for iPhone and iPod Touch and is available at the iTunes Store! Naturally the mobile version experienced some cutbacks compared to its biger brothers, but with 20 licensed and fully customizable cars, 18 race tracks and 20 soundtracks this game is one of the upper-level iPhone games.
Also the reviews out there give good ratings. Only downside could be, that only owners of an iPhone 3GS get to see the full graphic effects, but these are worth it, as Kotaku writes:
It's Sooo Pretty: I really wish I could afford an iPhone 3Gs — the graphics were smooth enough to make me want to lick the touch screen*.
*Never lick your touch screen — aside from being plain gross, it's dangerous. Do you have any idea how much bacteria is on that thing?
Also the onlinemagazine IGN seems to like the game:
I thought only console players saw their triple-A games bunched up in the fourth quarter of the year, but it seems the App Store is enjoying a similar bounty in 2009. Hands down the best iPhone racer since Real Racing, Need for Speed Shift offers a superlative single-player career that will keep your hands glued to your iPhone for hours. As somebody that is still enjoying Shift on the Xbox 360, seeing such a strong translation to the iPhone is exceedingly heartening. Well done.
You can get Need for Speed Shift for € 7.99 / $9.99 at the iTunes Store:
NFS Shift @ iTunes AppStore
NFS Shift @ EA Mobile
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