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A selection of racing games from UK developer Codemasters is now available for no additional charge on the EA Play service.

EA has completed its acquisition of developer and publisher Codemasters in a deal worth over $1.2 billion.

Electronic Arts has dropped the official reveal trailer for its next Need for Speed game, confirming that title we reported on yesterday: Need for Speed HEAT.

It seems a YouTube URL has leaked the full title of the upcoming Need for Speed ahead of tomorrow’s reveal. Say hello then, to Need for Speed Heat.

The reveal of a new entry in the Need for Speed franchise is nearly upon us. According to Eurogamer, Electronic Arts will pull the wraps off of the upcoming title this Wednesday, August 14.

The latest release from the long-running Need for Speed series is here. With plenty of action, Payback looks to entice gamers through street racing and in-depth customization.

A surprise blog post on the official series website has revealed the first tidbits of information on Need for Speed 2017.

2017 is shaping up to be a massive year for racing games, in part due to the sudden (and very welcome) availability of Porsche across the genre. On the face of it this is great news, but one manufacturer seems increasingly rare on the car lists of upcoming games: Ruf Automobile.

This year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo is set to be a big one for the racing genre. Electronic Arts is the first major third-party to tip its hand, lining up a pre-E3 event that will include a raft of upcoming titles, including the latest installment in the Need For Speed series.

Electronic Arts’s third quarter fiscal 2017 earnings call was yesterday (link to the full document here), and buried between the various sports and shooting titles was a reference to the upcoming Need For Speed title, and when players can expect it.

It’s the end of an era. For almost as long as we’ve been a website, it’s been understood that Porsche, that most desirable of German marques, was the (more-or-less) exclusive domain of Electronic Arts. Sure, earlier Forza titles had them — and later ones did too, if you paid the extra asking price for DLC — but outside of that, you pretty much had to play a Need For Speed title to drive a car from Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG (to give it its full name).

For the past 15 years, Porsche gaming fans haven’t had much to get excited about. The famous German marque rarely appears in video games thanks to a special, strange exclusivity contract with Electronic Arts. Not much is known about the details of the agreement (IGN went in-depth on the topic earlier this year), but to summarize: a video game can’t include a Porsche without EA’s blessing.

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