"Need for Speed" presses the pause button and it is reported that the series has been hidden by EA.

2025-07-16 23:53:13|Myriagame |source：minecraft skins

The latest news says that the "Need for Speed" series may have been hidden by EA, and EA also hid the "Dead Space" series last year (2024).

Matthew Everingham, one of the Speedhunters website contributors, retweeted the following message on social media:

"Speedhunters was pressed for pause. EA has put the Need for Speed series on hold, which also means the website will no longer be supported by financial support. Thank you for everything that happened - those journeys, stories, and friends for life. I will still continue shooting, just to change channels and turn more to the direction of video."

Let’s briefly introduce the website Speedhunters, an “international group of photographers, writers and drivers who are all keen on discovering the world’s most exciting automotive culture stories.”For some reason, this site seems to have been funded by EA.But it has not been updated for more than three months, and the last post was released on April 8, 2025.

To be honest, this may not be entirely surprising to Need for Speed fans.The series went through several mediocre works, especially between 2015 and 2019, with all three games independently produced by Ghost Games ending in failure.Need for Speed: Unruly, jointly developed by Criterion Games and Codemasters in 2022, performed much better, but judging from sales, it still seems to be a reason to support the sequel.

The last time there was news was in September 2023, when EA transferred Criterion Games to EA Entertainment so that they could participate in the development of the next Battlefield game while also taking charge of a new racing game project.

But now it seems that the project may not go well, or EA just decided to focus on Battlefield 6 development—including single-player campaigns and multiplayer content.

After all, Need for Speed is really not comparable to Battlefield in terms of its strategic significance.For example, EA seems to hope that the total number of players in Battlefield 6 can reach 100 million - this goal is very ambitious, but it is not completely impossible if the game is successful.

In contrast, the audience of racing games is much niche.Even Forza Horizon 5, one of the most successful racing games in recent years, has "only" about 45 million players so far, and this number also includes users through Game Pass.

Recently, EA also announced that online support for the 2013 game "Need Speed 18: The Enemy" will be terminated on October 7, 2025, and the game was jointly developed by Criterion and Ghost Games.

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