One of the great things about car racing games is they offer players the opportunity to experience the sensation of driving multiple cars from multiple manufacturers. However, not all racing games have taken advantage of...
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Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Why don’t you ask the Korean kids who tried to play World of Warcraft for 96 straight hours, or the guy who…ahem, “strangled the...
Rare is the feature film spawned from a video game franchise that elicits even grudging approval from movie geeks, much less mention in the same breath as Citizen Kane or Casablanca. The same is largely...
The Ford Mustang has been cast in the lead vehicular role for multiple high profile movies over the years: Bullitt, Gone in 60 Seconds (the original and the remake) and A Man and a Woman...
The global video game industry has made its annual pilgrimage to the Los Angeles Convention Center for the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 to its friends) and, as always, there were plenty of buzz-surrounded world premieres...
To the typical moviegoer, a Hollywood action flickisn’ttruly complete unless it has a white-knuckle car chase. And if the drivers in pursuit are law enforcement types, thereby creating a clear demarcation between chaser and chasee,...
After crafting Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit, the hyper-addictive, critically-acclaimed reboot of the cops-and-racers sub-franchise, you’d be forgiven for assuming that the folks at Criterion Games would be taking a long, well-earned vacation. And when...
The 2012 edition of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3 for short) wrapped up at the Los Angeles Convention Center yesterday, and there was plenty of monumental video game news being announced. There were numerous sequels...
Need For Speed has recently been overshadowed by the overhyped rivalry between Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsports. But that in no way diminishes its relevancy or merits. Let’s not forget that NFS is the most successful...
If we had to name one racing game franchise that has lost the plot of late, it would have to be Electronic Arts’ erstwhile genre-leader, the Need for Speed series. All was well in the...