Having taken a radical new direction upon release a fortnight ago, Need for Speed: Shift received a warm reception from many gaming critics. Now gamers can check out the demo before purchasing the full game, thanks to EA rather kindly providing a demo, which will be released on Thursday. Featuring the world...

Fast cars, fast women, die young. These are the mantras that most young people think of when driving their customized cars. Need For Speed used to carry that slogan until this new version of the game left the arcade and street ideals and became the next realistic racer for current generation consoles. In...

Need For Speed: Shift is taking less of an arcade-style gameplay model and moving towards the simulation type of game. It’s an interesting change for a series that was known for being different from other racing titles. A new update is showing a bunch of the cars that will be in-game for players to...

Need For Speed’s new focus on track racing may bring it back into the spotlight of the racing game genre. With previous titles focusing more on the less than legal side of driving, taking the game into the more focused and difficult pro circuit racing series creates new interest in the series as a...

It’s nice to see that the current generation systems are being used to more of their potential than the first generation or even second generation of titles that have released so far. Developers are finding new tricks to pull off graphic genius and still being able to immerse gamers into games that...

Another week has passed and the September 15 release date is getting closer. Electronic Arts has released a new video for Need For Speed: Shift showing more gameplay footage and also announcing the exclusive GameStop pre-order bonus car. The bonus is the BMW E92 M3 GT2 which will be available to all...

When the statistics came out that most gamers still hadn’t upgraded to the HDTV platform and were playing games on standard definition televisions, I was a little surprised. Granted, the price for HDTVs are falling, but they are still a little expensive. Now racing genre fans have a reason to...