Fans of the Need For Speed->ke3700 franchise have had a rough year. It has been about that long since news came out that Ghost Games, the Swedish studio that has been handling the NFS games for EA since 2013's Need For Speed Rivals, was laying off staff and that the layoffs would mean a delay on the next title. But now we finally have word that a new title will be brought out in the fall, called simply: Need For Speed. EA is calling this a “reboot,” which explains the return of the original name, although it isn't explained in what other way this is a reboot.

There have been a few images so far, a couple of an older Porsche 911,->ke282 a new Mustang->ke428 and a Nissan->ke62 180SX, all of them with visible modifications. There is also a short video clip->ke278 showing these cars racing and fleeing from the cops. Pretty standard Need For Speed stuff, and it looks like there will be some impressive graphics as well. More information is said to be coming next month, which we assume will include a longer trailer.

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Why it matters

Microsoft's Xbox->ke3732 site seems to have leaked a bit of information about the game early, because it was taken back down shortly after it went up. This leak included the statement that there would be “five new ways to play” and that these were “Speed, Style, Build, Crew and Outlaw.” There was no explanation of what these were, but it did say that the game would have a West Coast open-world nocturnal setting, in a place called Ventura Bay. It promised extensive customization options, and used the word “urban” no less than four times in the space of one small paragraph, so look for that to potentially mean something.