Electronic Arts announced that they will once again change the team that develops their Need for Speed games.
The Need for Speed series has come under Electronic Arts in the last few years and it seems like the ordeal has finally come to an end as last year's NFS Heat was a solid game in the third attempt at the Swedish Ghost Games. However, it turns out that their effort was in vain as Electronic Arts management decided to dissolve the studio and re-transfer the Need for Speed franchise into the hands of another studio.
Future NFS series games will again be developed by the British Criterion Games team. With most of Ghost Games' creative forces moving to Criterion and other development teams owned by Electronic Arts. The rest of Ghost Games will be renamed EA Gothenburg and serve as the engineering base for the development of the Frostbite engine. About thirty people will remain so incongruous, perhaps dismissing them as technological redundancies, and perhaps redistributing them to other studies.
The reason for this decision is that EA in Sweden failed to find the sufficient breadth of talented staff to maintain a studio with such high production.
As for Criterion, they were developing the Burnout series before, and they took care of NFS from 2010 to 2012. In the last seven years, they have not made a single game but participated in the development of Star Wars Battlefront II and Battlefield V. If you ask us, NFS has been reinstated by this step precisely because it was shared with a team that has served for the past seven years to help other studios.
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