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Need for Speed™ Hot Pursuit Remastered. Reignite the pursuit in Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered. Out now on PS4, Xbox, PC and Nintendo Switch. "Hot Pursuit still holds up as a great game in its own right. Races are blistering fast, the car selection is mouth-watering, and the high-speed dances between opposing cars never gets old." –IGN
While Criterion was originally placed within EA Sports following EA's restructuring in early 2023, EA moved Criterion into EA Entertainment in September 2023 as to support the development of the Battlefield series. The studio will still continue to build the Need for Speed games.
As we at Criterion shift gears into the future with full focus on developing the next Need for Speed game, this will be the final update for Need for Speed Heat. Since the launch of Need for Speed Heat and as players continue to tear it up in Palm City, we’re listening to what you love about this experience, and what you all believe could be ...
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Criterion Games (registered name as Criterion Software Limited) is a video game developer owned by Electronic Arts and is located in Guildford, England.
Established on July 21, 1993, Criterion Software Limited began within Canon's European Research Lab with the purpose of continuing their research into 3D rendering technology that could be commercialised. It was set up by David Lau-Kee and Adam Billyard as a subsidiary of Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd.
Criterion Software developed RenderWare, a proprietary 3D API graphics rendering engine, which was used for as a middleware for programs such as Active Worlds and file formats including Virtual Reality Modeling Language.
It wasn't until 1996, in which a game development studio under the same name was established, that Criterion Studios was able to gain traction in the marketplace with Renderware. Its first three games; TrickStyle in 1999, Suzuki Alstare Extreme Racing in 1999, and Deep Fighter in 2000, did not sell sufficiently enough to propel Criterion Studios from its beginnings.
In 2000, Criterion Studios released RenderWare 3, a complete middleware that could function on various platforms, with the most notable being the recently released PlayStation 2. The availability and versatility of RenderWare 3 was apparent to developers, as it quickly filled a gap left for yet undeveloped technology to bridge developers from created for the PlayStation to the PlayStation 2.
RenderWare was utilised by multiple game development studios and publishers for various projects, but some of the more notable games developed using the engine, besides the Burnout series, included; Crackdown, Crackdown 2, Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4.
1.Website: beta.companieshouse.gov.uk (2019) CRITERION SOFTWARE GROUP LIMITED - Company number 02464484. Available at: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02464484
2.Website: beta.companieshouse.gov.uk (2019) CRITERION SOFTWARE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED - Company number 04330854. Available at: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04330854
3.Website: beta.companieshouse.gov.uk (2019) CRITERION SOFTWARE LIMITED - Company number 04330852. Available at: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/04330852
4.Article: mcvuk.com (2008) IP Profile: Burnout. Available at: https://www.mcvuk.com/ip-profile-burnout/
5.Blog: threefieldsentertainment.com (2018) Burnout 1 Part 2. Available at: http://www.threefieldsentertainment.com/2018/04/16/burnout-1-part-2/
6.Article: gamesindustry.biz (2004) EA buys Criterion; deal includes game studio and RenderWare. Available at: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/ea-buys-criterion-deal-includes-game-studio-and-renderware
Need for Speed Unbound (stylised as NFS Unbound) is a 2022 racing video game developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. The game is the twenty-fifth instalment in the Need for Speed series and the successor to 2019's Heat.
Need for Speed ( NFS) is a racing game franchise published by Electronic Arts and currently developed by Criterion Games, the developers of Burnout. [1] . The series generally centers around illegal street racing and tasks players to complete various types of races while evading the local law enforcement in police pursuits.
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