World Online Showroom Open, and NFSNation hosts a Map

• Sinister 3/14/2010 12:28 PM
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Yes, For those who had access to the Beta of NFS World Online, the showroom is up and available for you to upload all your favorite screen shots from the game.

NFSNation has created a map with clickable points for use with World Online. Given that the city is quite large, and you may not always be able to see your friends on the map, it was designed to give active points on the map which you can share with your friends, giving an exact location to where you may want to meet. (via any messenger, chat, or irc program)
It could be very useful when you are playing with friends who do not know the city maps well enough. For best results, playing World Online in windowed mode helps.

For example, On the last day of Beta 1, there was a gathering of many of the players for some group shots.
They wanted to go to the stadium.

http://www.nfsnation.com/worldmap/#618,231
Shows you where the stadium is, and if you use it in reference to where you are, you can easily find a quick route.

As it goes, Beta II dates have still yet to be announced.

Maybe, if there are future updates of the map, NFSNation will add more features for use. For now, no.

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Rumours of Hot Pursuit Remake and Shift 2

• Sinister 3/14/2010 12:14 PM
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NFSPlanet posted information about a rumor, where they heard that this year's NFS may be a Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, possibly a remake of the classic NFS III Hot Pursuit (1998). Of course, going with the name, we could expect the return of police pursuits, whether playable as police is another question unanswered. It's not known yet if the game will contain an open world, or simply track based as its predecessor.

If we believe to some degree about previous rumors, this might be the title Criterion Games is working on, who are the creators of the successful Burnout-series.

The second game is planned for release in the 1st quarter in 2011 and would likely be a successor of NFS Shift and possibly carry the name Need for Speed: Shift 2. Given the overall success of Shift this seems to be a logical step of EA.

As soon as we have more information, we'll keep you updated.

Source: NFSPlanet

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Need For Speed: Shift Exotic DLC announced.

• Sinister 3/13/2010 11:47 AM
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Electronic Arts announced today another add-on for Need for Speed Shift: the Exotic Racing Series, containing seven hot new cars, a new race track and over 50 new events - created specifically for these cars including time challenges, endurance and sprint races!
While the Ferrari Racing Pack was only exclusive for the Xbox360, this time the Exotic Racing Series will be available for 10 USD on Xbox360 an Playstation 3. If the add-on will ever make it to the PC is not known yet.

Exotic Racing Series

The Exotic Racing Series Pack will contain the following cars:

1. Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
2. BMW M1 Procar
3. GUMPERT apollo
4. Honda NSX
5. McLaren MP4-12C
6. Maserati GranTurismo S
7. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss

The new track Riviera is available in four unique layoutse, each with daring corners, multiple blazing straight-aways and a few hairpins that will push these cars to the limit. Players that complete the package will receive an additional 125 Microsoft gamerpoints or 5 PlayStation Trophies as a reward for undertaking various exciting challenges.

The Exotic Racing Series for Need for Speed Shift will be available on March 18th, 2010 on Xbox360 and Playstation 3.

Source: http://www.nfsplanet.com

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Need For Speed: Carbon Geometry finally Cracked.

• Sinister 3/12/2010 6:51 PM
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Since the Release of Carbon in October of 2006, Carbon has been locked and virtually unmoddable. Finally after tirelessly working with the code, Dawid, known as NFSU360, solved the equation, and has the ability under his thumb for new user created cars to be imported into the game.

The Tool release date has yet to be announced, as well, the performance modding is yet unchanged, so for now, any cars imported would still use the original settings from the one it had replaced.

Carbon Modding news will be known when more proper detailed information becomes available from the original source.

There are only three source shots of this current NFS success.

Source: Carbon Geometry Successfully Cracked

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World Online BETA 1 Survey is out.

• Sinister 3/11/2010 12:14 AM
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EA has sent out surveys to those who had a chance to participate in the first North American Survey.

Please be thorough, detailed, and honest with your answers. Also, for Question 13, it would be appreciative if you could also include NFSCars.net as a source you learned about Need For Speed World. Once you have completed your survey it includes a confirmation to keep an eye on your email for the next beta testing period, which is still yet to be announced.

As an added bonus, for those who own Shift on the 360, watch the NeedForSpeed Twitter.
Ferrari Codes are being given away randomly for free to the first person who enters it into the game.

http://twitter.com/NeedforSpeed

http://www.needforspeed.com/web/world
If you haven't already done so once, apply for the Beta, , then PM me with your email address.

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