I have to say, I wasn’t too ecstatic when EA announced the next title in the Burnout franchise would be a top down arcade title

Criterion Games, an Electronic Arts Inc. today announced Burnout CRASH! The next instalment in the Burnout series will arrive onto Xbox LIVE Arcade and the PlayStation Network in Fall 2011.

The next title in the long-running Burnout Series is set to be a family friendly top-down arcade… thing. The player will still be triggering crashes at intersections, they’ll just be doing so from an entirely new angle…

The Australian Ratings Board has had their hands on an upcoming multiplatform racing release titled…

Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit had a lot to live up to. Not only does it share a name with what are generally considered the best of the series …

It’s not very often that a Need for Speed game comes over the horizon with all guns blazing and looking like it might actually be really good. Fortunately, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit is one of those titles, and it certainly caught my attention at this year’s Eurogamer Expo.

Criterion’s new Need for Speed game, Hot Pursuit, will be coming to North America on the 16th of November, it was announced today. The European release will come two days later on the 18th…

Unclever wordplay aside, classic film distributor Criterion won’t be working on a Need For Speed any time soon. No, the Criterion here is the developer of the Burnout series, and while their only departure from Burnout has been met with generally favorable reviews, their latest departure has already piqued my interest, and it’s not anywhere [...]

For all of you PC Burnout players (and if you’re not one, you should be), Criterion have released a patch allowing you to download the previously announced DLC for the game from the Burnout Store. The patch can be downloaded directly from here, and players with the EA download manager should already have it. The [...]

Burnout Paradise was one of the best-received games of 2008 on the consoles, and is currently hailed as one of the best racing games this generation. A year later, and the game has had a multitude of downloadable content, all substantial and mostly free. This is aggregated in “The Ultimate Box” released for PS3, Xbox [...]

In a move that’s well beyond any lame Second Life appearances, the Obama campaign has bought ad space in Paradise City. EA confirmed the ad buy to website Gigaom today– check out their statement after the jump.

In an age where we’re being nickled-and-dimed for content that should’ve been on the disc to begin with, Criterion and EA are going above and beyond the call of duty to keep supporting Burnout: Paradise. They’re distributing DLC to the widest possible audience by making it available for the unbeatable price of free. On September [...]