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December 3rd, 2009 at 05:00pm
Under Xbox 360
EA has opened the garage door and rolled out its
Team Racing Pack for
Need For Speed: Shift, adding five new cars and a cooperative online racing mode to its superb driving game. Available today for Xbox 360 and PC, the DLC is priced at … wait, it’s free? Five cars and a new mode are
free? This is obviously an error and the DLC should be downloaded before EA starts asking like 1500 space bucks for it. Oh, EA did this
intentionally? Kudos, giant publisher. (We’re still not sure if this is some kind of trick.)
XBL Gold members can grab the expansion from the Xbox Live Marketplace at this link. PS3 owners in the UK will find the free DLC on PSN today, with the US PlayStation Store getting it next Thursday, December 10.
PSA: Free NFS Shift ‘team racing’ DLC out for 360, PC originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 23rd, 2009 at 02:00pm
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EA’s preparing a new pack of cars for your virtual garage in Need for Speed: Shift. On December 1st, Xbox 360 owners worldwide will be given five classic rides to race around in, free of charge, while PS3 owners in Europe and North America gain access on December 3rd and 10th, respectively. Dubbed the Legendary Car pack, this new bit of DLC puts gamers behind the wheel of these five classic rides:
- 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427
- 1967 Shelby GT-500 (Nicolas Cage not included)
- 1969 Dodge Charger R/T
- 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T
- 1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV
The free update will also bring with it a new Team Racing mode, which will allow two teams of up to six racers to compete against each other online. You’ve got some time, so find a few friends and get ready to shake and bake.
Free Need for Speed: Shift DLC adds new cars, team racing originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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November 16th, 2009 at 10:36am
Under Wii / Nintendo
Don’t want to grow up or pay full price for video games? A list of purported Black Friday game deals for Toys R Us has shown up online, with a few temporary price drops that may justify a late night or early morning trip to TRU on November 27.
Most of the great deals are “5AM Doorbusters,” which means that if you have yet to pick up Halo 3: ODST, Need for Speed Shift, or Forza 3, they’ll all be $34.99 … at 5AM. Good luck! Also marked down at that obscenely early hour: Dead Space Extraction, which most of you have yet to pick up. It’ll be just $24.99. Whether any of that is worth getting up at ridiculous o’clock to fight each other over is your call. See the full list of deals here.
[Thanks, Pete!]
Rumor: Toys R Us Black Friday deals leaked originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:36:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 29th, 2009 at 07:00pm
Under Xbox 360
Attention, race fans: EA’s Need for Speed: Shift will have a demo ready for a qualifying run this Thursday, October 1. The demo features two tracks (Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps and London River) as well as five different vehicles to master:
- BMW M3 (E46)
- 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10
- 2006 Lotus Elise 111R
- 2008 Nissan GT-R
- 2006 Pagani Zonda F (unlockable)
As for that last car, you’ll need to excel on the two courses and earn enough points to unlock it. And remember: The demo is not limited to Blur developers, so feel free to make with the loading down!
Need for Speed: Shift demo drifts to Xbox Live, PSN on Thursday originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 21st, 2009 at 03:50pm
Under PSP
It looks like the UK’s need for rock was outpaced by its need for speed [Hnngghh - Ed.], as Need for Speed Shift debuted in the top sales position this week. Need for Speed’s arrival shifted [STOP IT - Ed.] Guitar Hero 5, DiRT 2 and Arkham Asylum to the second, third and fourth places, respectively. It seems the Fab Four couldn’t hold on to their own homeland, with The Beatles: Rock Band slipping from fourth to seventh.
Meanwhile, Wii Sports Resort moved up one notch to fifth, while Bethesda’s Wet debuted at number six. Rounding out the list were Call of Duty 4, Wii Fit and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. Now, if you’ll excuse us, Joystiq Publishing needs to get back to planning its future UK blockbuster: Colin McRae’s Shifty Arkham Hero.
Source — EA’s Need For Speed Shift’s Into First (Chart Track)
Source — All formats chart (Chart Track)
Need for Speed shifts to the top spot on UK charts originally appeared on Joystiq on Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:50:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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September 18th, 2009 at 06:40pm
Under Xbox 360
Electronic Arts has announced that a demo for Need for Speed: Shift is now available for PC. You can grab the demo from Big Download right here. The demo offers five different cars, including the BMW M3 (E46), the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10, the 2006 Lotus Elise 111R, the 2008 Nissan GT-R. The fifth car, the 2006 Pagani Zonda F is included in the demo as an unlockable.
While the demo is currently confined to the PC, take heart, console owners. A demo is scheduled to hit the Xbox 360 and PS3 in early October.
NFS: Shift demo on PC now, 360 and PS3 in October originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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July 30th, 2009 at 11:00pm
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The folks at EA dropped a teaser video on us today (seen above) for Need for Speed: Shift’s tie-in video series, “The Driver’s Experience.” Premiering this Friday evening/Saturday morning on YouTube — and likely here, dearest readers — the show is said to profile various race car drivers associated with the game.
More specifically, it will focus on the experience of speeding around places like the Nürburgring. A personal look into the human face behind those who drive multi-million dollar sponsored race cars sounds like a hoot, but we’re not sure how much it’ll effect our need to play the final product over those other perfectly competent (and proven) racing sims. We’ll just have to tune in on Friday at midnight (EST) to find out.
NFS: Shift ‘Driver’s Experience’ video profiles begin this Friday night originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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June 12th, 2009 at 12:45pm
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E3 was brütal! If you blinked, for a split/second, you missed something. Even if you were trine to keep up, it was a blur — staying a.wake like that, you only pushed yourself to the brink of your own dark void. That’s where Joystiq comes in; to crackdown on the madness; to reach out … with conviction — phew! Crysis averted.
We’ve scoured the dark corners and survived the inferno to piece together this roundup of all things Xbox at E3. Why? Just ’cause we love you. So, draw nier and shift your eyes past the break.
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E3 2009 highlights: The Xbox roundup originally appeared on Joystiq on Fri, 12 Jun 2009 11:45:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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