EA-backed car culture site, Speedhunters, says it’s winding down operations after the publisher allegedly decided to “shelve” its Need for Speed series.
That’s according to photojournalist and longtime contributor Matthew Everingham, who posted on Instagram that the site was “on ice”, some 17 years after it was founded.
“Speedhunters is on ice. Its store is also offline.
The news follows a statement from EA itself earlier this year, which suggested that plans for a new Need for Speed game were on hold, as the current developer, Criterion had moved divisions within the company to work on the Battlefield franchise. However, at the time, it claimed that a core group would continue working on what’s next for Need for Speed.
Criterion is one of four internal EA studios building a connected Battlefield universe set in the modern day. It’s mainly focused on single-player content for the next series entry.
Need for Speed’s previous developer, Need for Speed Heat [112 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/games/need-for-speed-2019/”>Need for Speed Heat (2019).
Criterion was responsible for the series’ most recent entry, 2022’s Codemasters [127 articles]” href=”https://www.videogameschronicle.com/companies/codemasters/”>Codemasters, which supported the development of Unbound, recently announced it was pausing development of its famous rally titles.
