Tag Archives: Need for Speed: Shift

Sony Ericsson and EA want to give you four free Xperia Play games. So, if you have the phone, instructions on how to the get the following games free can be found here: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Dead Space, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and Need for Speed: SHIFT. You have until January 15, 2012. Thanks, D’toid.

It’s time for your second batch of shorts. Take the plunge after the break.

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Super Street Fighter IV’s appeared on Games on Demand alongside Need for Speed: Shift.

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EA’s senior VP Patrick Soderlund is of the belief the Shift franchise can “absolutely beat” Sony’s Gran Turismo series due to the former’s “authentic driving experience”.

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Hot Pursuit may be the talk of Need for Speed’s town, but EA’s hard at work on Shift 2 if a CV of an ex-EA programmer is a pointer.

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According to this, this is the full list of titles that you’ll be able to choose from for the upcoming PSPgo deal for anyone who bought it after April 1.

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EA just slapped another bit of DLC on Need for Speed Shift, this time in the form of an “exotic” pack due later this month.

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After a seven-year break from Need for Speed games, a ten-car Ferrari pack is to be made available for Need for Speed Shift this month: for 360 only.

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EA has announced that a free Team Racing pack for Need for Speed: SHIFT will be available worldwide on December 1 through XBL and on December 3 and 10 via PSN in Europe and the US, respectively.

The Team Racing mode has two teams of up to six racers going against each other along with five new sexy cars:

• 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427
• 1967 Shelby GT-500
• 1969 Dodge Charger R/T
• 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T
• 1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV

Game’s in stores now.

Via PR mail.

EA Mobile has revealed some details on Need for Speed: SHIFT for iPhone.

Basically, you’ll be able to play from a third-person arcade view, and from the cockpit – and yeah, the steering wheel is there.

Around 20 cars are featured with an upgrade system where you can use winning points from a race to purchase goodies. There’s 28 street and pro racing tracks, and you can change around the speed, handling, acceleration, and nitrous injection system.

Local Wi-Fi and Bluetooth multiplayer will also be included.

No word yet on when it will be made available.

Via PocketGamer.

FIFA 10 has retained it’s postition at the top of the UK charts, despite sales for the game dropping over 64 percent.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising puts up a strong challenge, and also becomes Codemasters’ biggest selling launch title, but still sees it fall short and land second in the charts.

Need for Speed: Shift rounds off the top three.

Find the top ten below. Last week’s data is here.

See that? That is the packaging for a 250Gb PS3 with Need for Speed: Shift, as picked up by FrenchGamers.

It’s grey too. Lovely grey.

While it hasn’t been formally announced, it has been rumoured before.

We’ll leave emails with Sony and EA to confirm this if possible.

Both the Brutal Legend and Need for Speed: Shift demos are now up on Live.

We’re going to grab the former for you now. Go get!

Don’t forget that both are up on PSN today as well.

Thanks, Blerk.

A Need for Speed: Shift console demo will release on Thursday, EA said this morning.

The following cars will be included:

• BMW M3 (E46)
• 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10
• 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
• 2008 Nissan GT-R
• 2006 Pagani Zonda F (unlockable)

Still had nothing back from EA on the 360-PS Store Shift comedy from yesterday, incidentally.

PR after the break.

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Whoops.

Freakbits has claimed that Need for Speed: Shift is “the most bug-ridden piece of code”, saying that the Xbox 360 version crashes sometimes when trying to access the PlayStation Store.

No, that ain’t a typo.

“The list of serious bugs being reported by customers is embarrassing and it has crashed on me at least a dozen times,” said the site.

“But this could be the most embarrassing fail of all.

“When navigating menus today while connected to Xbox Live the game suddenly crashed again. When my rage had subsided and I got a better look at the screen, I was pretty shocked at what I saw.

“Was my Xbox 360 version of Need for Speed Shift really trying to access the Playstation Store? Microsoft are not going to be happy about this.”

And the world LOL’ed.

Thanks, PSLS.

The PC demo of Need for Speed: SHIFT has landed on the net.

You can get it at FileFront, the official website, and many other places as well.

The demo is around 1.1 GB in size and features the Spa and London River routes, the Dodge Viper, Lotus Elise, BMW M3, Nissan GTR and the unlockabel Pagani Zonda.

Neato.

Game’s out today.

A screen taken of a Swedish GameStop database shows that the European 250Gb PS3 Slim bundles are more than likely the real deal, and people should be pleased as punch with the offerings, which are supposedly all due next month.

The four bundles listed, as you can see, are Uncharted 2, FIFA 10, Need for Speed: Shift, and Ratchet & Clank Future.

Each are tentatively priced at SEK 4,499 which is around £398/$657 and tentatively scheduled for an October 2 release.

While it does not show the Assassin’s Creed II or Gran Turismo 5 bundles, don’t jump off a bridge just yet. None of this has been confirmed 100 percent.

More through Kotaku.

Thanks, Blerk.

Looks as though EA doesn’t have too much to worry about on the quality front as far as Need for Speed: Shift’s concerned. The racer’s holding tight at an 85 percent MC average on both 360 and PS3.

The PC version‘s at 86 percent, based on four reviews.

Round-up:

• G4 – 5/5
• NZGamer – 8.8/10
• GiantBomb – 3/5
• GameDaily – 9/10
• GameSpy – 5/5
• GamePro – 8/10
• IGN – 9/10
• Eurogamer – 7/10

Thanks, Monk.

Our French is a little rough, so help us out here if you’re fluent.

Jeuxvideo’s posted details of several holiday PS3 bundles – including packs for Uncharted 2 and Assassins Creed II – apparently gleaned from a local retailer.

There’s a GT5 deal there, too. The bundle is a Slim plus the game for €339, releasing on December 4.

The full bundles are:

• PS3 Slim + Need for Speed: Shift (October 1): €339
• PS3 Slim + Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (October 14): €339
• PS3 Slim + Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 (October 24): €339
• PS3 Slim + two unconfirmed Blu-ray movies (date and price tbc)
• PS3 Slim + Tekken 6 (November 4): €339
• PS3 Slim + Assassin’s Creed II (November 19): €339
• PS3 Slim + Gran Turismo 5 (December 4): €339

Rumour, obviously. There’s been no announcement. Thanks, Gekidami.

Need for Speed: Shift developer Slightly Mad studios has said to Gamerzines that the damage model for Gran Turismo 5 is not “quite so realistic”.

The revealation came from the studio’s Andy Tudor.

“Actually, when the footage of Gran Turismo 5 came out of GamesCom with the doors flying off, we were all like ‘what the fuck? How are they able to do that?,” said Tudor.

“But then we looked closer and saw that they had fitted a roll cage to the car, which is fine, but it’s not quite so realistic.”

Buuurn.

Shift is out on September 18 for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. More through the link.