Customization was cited as a core part of the Need for Speed experience, and that customization would have a strong focus in the game. Just before that event in June 2017, another Under The Hood blog outlined some of the elements Ghost Games would focus on and what they learned from feedback of the previous game. The publisher would next tease the title being involved in their EA Play 2017 showcase, held around E3, where participants first got to try a work in progress build.

Episode #7: Taking Stock revealed the end of content updates for the previous game, Need for Speed (2015) and that the feedback from the 2015 entry would be taken into consideration for the 2017 game.Īside from a handful of teases like a trademark for Need for Speed: Arena appearing in November 2016, the game was quietly developed at its British based studio, Ghost Games until EA’s quarterly earnings call in January 2017 suggested that the new Need for Speed game was launching within the coming fiscal year 2018, and stating that the extended development cycle was allowing the team to push boundaries.

The next entry in the Need for Speed series was first teased on May 10th, 2016 within the video series “Under The Hood” on the official Need for Speed website.

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