Digital Arts has confirmed that Want for Pace developer Criterion Video games is at the moment totally engaged with the Battlefield collection.
It seemingly implies that plans for a brand new Want for Pace are on maintain, though the writer has mentioned it’s planning to return to the racing collection sooner or later.
EA introduced in September 2023 that Criterion had moved divisions throughout the firm to work on the Battlefield franchise.
On the time, Respawn co-founder Vince Zampella, who leads the EA studios answerable for Apex Legends, its Star Wars and Battlefield video games, mentioned a core group at Criterion would proceed engaged on what’s subsequent for Want for Pace.
That assertion was adopted by the launch of an extra 12 months of content material for 2022’s Want for Pace Unbound.
“The Want for Pace staff at Criterion are becoming a member of their colleagues engaged on Battlefield,” Zampella mentioned at present in a press release issued to Eurogamer. “As an organization, it was essential to us to take the final 12 months to hearken to our Want for Pace neighborhood and use their suggestions to create content material for Unbound.
“With an elevated understanding of what our gamers need in a Want for Pace expertise, we plan to carry the franchise again in new and attention-grabbing methods.”
Zampella’s assertion was shared to coincide the discharge of the primary pre-alpha gameplay footage of the subsequent Battlefield sport, alongside particulars of a brand new neighborhood testing program, which gamers can register for now.
Criterion is one in all 4 inner EA studios constructing a related Battlefield universe set within the modern-day. It’s primarily centered on single-player content material for the subsequent collection entry.
EA introduced in 2020 that it had handed Want for Pace improvement duties again to Criterion because it deliberate to restructure Ghost Video games, which had made the final 4 entries within the collection.
Finest identified for the Burnout collection, Criterion had additionally developed two earlier Want for Pace titles: 2010’s Sizzling Pursuit and 2012’s Most Needed. It contributed to 2013’s Want for Pace Rivals too, and later to DICE’s Star Wars Battlefront II, Battlefield V and Battlefield 2042.
Its most up-to-date sport was Want for Pace Unbound, which was delayed after Criterion was moved right into a assist position on Battlefield 2042.