News EA Might Drop Need for Speed Series
It seems that Electronic Arts might have dropped the Need for Speed series. This news comes from a social media post by a person who writes for Speedhunters, a car site that EA used to fund.
Where the News Came From
Matthew Everingham, who writes for Speedhunters, put up a post on Instagram that said:
Speedhunters is stopped. EA put Need for Speed away, and that means no more money for the site.
This idea is backed by the fact that the Speedhunters site, a group of car writers and picture takers from around the world, hasn't had new posts since April 8, 2025, which is over three months ago.
How the Game Did and Its Growth
It might not be a shock that the series was dropped. The games put out between 2015 and 2019 by Ghost Games were not hits. The 2022 game, Need for Speed Unbound made by Criterion Games and Codemasters, got better reviews but might not have sold enough to keep going.
In September 2023, EA moved Criterion Games over to the EA Entertainment group to help with the next Battlefield game. It looks like the new Need for Speed wasn't doing well, or EA chose to use all of Criterion's work on Battlefield 6, helping with both solo and group play.
A Business Call
The choice might also be about how big the two game series are. EA hopes Battlefield 6 will get 100 million players. In contrast, racing games are a smaller group. Even a big hit like Forza Horizon 5 got 45 million players, counting Game Pass users.
This big gap in possible players likely makes Battlefield much more important to Electronic Arts than Need for Speed.