r/needforspeed • • 14d ago

News This Week's Need for Speed News: Speedhunters' Instagram Disappears, NFS Mobile Closure

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What's up folks. We have a couple of news stories for y'all this week. One of which we should have broadcasted prior but haven't yet.

Speedhunters Instagram: Gone.

Photo by Trevor Yale Ryan

The official Instagram page of Speedhunters (@thespeedhunters) has disappeared from the internet about last week. Like with the closure itself, there's no public information as to why's the case.

As a reminder, a public archive has been published to keep the stories alive - visit https://speedhunters.online/ if you wanna browse through over a decade worth of exploring global car culture.

Need for Speed Mobile: Dead. (At least in Taiwan)

Photo from NFS Mobile's Garena Site

Romankus, look away! As published by their official Facebook and Garena pages (thanks huf and TME on Discord for the tip!), NFS Mobile, also known as NFS Assemble, has announced the closure of the title on December 28, 2026, 12:00 PM (GMT+8). Starting today, in-game purchases are closed, and transfer of any remaining paid currencies will be announced on a later date.

Addenum: As of right now, this is only for Taiwanese servers - Mainland Chinese servers are still active. But expect that to be gone relatively soon as well.

As is the current state of NFS post the private equity buyout, there's still no word on what's going on. It'll probably be like this for a long time.


r/needforspeed • • Jul 22 '26

News The Speedhunters Archive: 17 Years of Car Culture History, now preserved and online

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I think we all share the same sentiment when Speedhunters got abruptly shut down last year: It's a sad passing of an era that EA no longer deems profitable enough to keep up.

Thanks to some archivists (who I can't find the names of, if you put this up, please let me know!), the Speedhunters archive is now back online, and you can read 17 years worth of car culture and Need for Speed history that's uniquely documented by them.

You can find it here: https://www.speedhunters.online/

Thanks u/nfslyy for the tip!


r/needforspeed • • 6h ago

Fan Concept / Content (Mods) Afterhours - Need for Speed (2015) - Offline mode progress update 3

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Hi, everyone, and welcome to another update!

Nothing big to announce this week. No demo, nothing fancy. Haven't had a lot of time to sink into this project, and the parts that are left are really big and take a lot of time, and kind of depend on all the other parts that are left so a bunch of big systems need to be solved at the same time.

Managed to get the prologue working, roughly, so there is progress! It's still buggy, though, and not ready for everyone. But that means story is being worked on now, for everyone that wanted that fully offline.

Massive thanks to our testers who have been gathering an incredible amount of packets, and sending a lot of details about how the game does all the magic it does. It really makes the work easier.

The work continues at least.

Hope everyone's having a good day!

Links:

- Discord: https://discord.gg/cNsahbpun8

- Roadmap: https://github.com/afterhours-crew/afterhours-2015/issues/62

- Github: https://github.com/afterhours-crew


r/needforspeed • • 2h ago

Image / GIF Absolute. Happiness.

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to think I'd see the day when this game would be so crowded... wow. Great accomplishment in this game's fandom

p.s. in-game name: Nepgear, on a white 106. See you guys in Bayview!


r/needforspeed • • 8h ago

Meme A ramp vs a cool cop clan

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r/needforspeed • • 2h ago

Question / Bug / Feedback Why can’t we play NFS Most Wanted and Carbon on current gen consoles?

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Need for Speed Most Wanted and Carbon basically made my childhood...I put so many hours into them back in the day on PS2 and Xbox 360 and

It's just frustrating that if you still own the original 360 discs,, you can't even pop them into an Xbox One or Series X to play, and it's the same thing on PS4/PS5,,they're just totally unplayable on modern consoles unless you still have your old hardware set up,,which sadly some of us don't.

There are so many classic games from that era that made it into backward compatibility, so it sucks seeing these two get left in the dust. I get that car licenses, music rights, and legal stuff are usually the main reason these games get stuck in licensing hell, but man... it feels like such a huge missed opportunity.. Wouldn't It Be Awesome To Experience These Games In Our New Gen Consoles?


r/needforspeed • • 9h ago

Image / GIF First time finishing Shift 1

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Never finished this nfs before, i hate Star system, bit game is fun, what do you think about my GTR design?


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Fan Concept / Content (Mods) Underground 2 Casino, illustrated by me

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r/needforspeed • • 0m left

Video / Cinematic Found a mobile port that actually runs on my system

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MediaTek Helio G88 with 6gb of ram.

Here is the mw version I'm using: https://github.com/RanggaCasper/MostWanted-Android/releases/tag/v1.0.1


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Discussion nver imagined how old game can win many players this fast than new aaa games

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still feels like a dream never thout i would play this game anywhere anytime that easy and online too and somehow this is better than all new nfs or other racing online games this what greedy game companies is hiding from us


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Discussion Who ever did that deserves everything good in this life

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who ever bring this game alive again is GOAT

nfsu2.xyz


r/needforspeed • • 17h ago

Question / Bug / Feedback Need some feed back on my album cover designs !!!

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Well, I wanna make the album cover for the ost (original soundtrack) for Need for Speed - Most Wanted (2005) as u all can see, I have made like 6 iterations for it, in which

  • 1 and 2 layout is inspo from the game cover of PS2.
  • 3 & 4 are my take on how it should be done according to me.
  • 5 & 6 is i used a inpso from gmaes element itself as it kinda iconic.

  • some chances also happen in the copy of the design (look the design 5 & 6 closly for it plz :) )

Remember, I'm making it according to Spotify and Apple Music like for how u see album art on their services.

So what should i like take it for the W here to polish for final design?


r/needforspeed • • 15m left

Discussion 2 Finland related buildings in NFSU2?

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r/needforspeed • • 5h ago

Discussion Show me your taste in nfs mw 2005 - A car customisation showdown

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The one with the most up votes has the best designing taste.

Mine is in the comments


r/needforspeed • • 37m ago

Fan Concept / Content (Mods) The Need for Speed: Special Edition - Remastered

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I got tired of waiting for a remaster of the original Need for Speed, so I decided to start building my own.

The goal is to bring The Need for Speed: Special Edition (1996) into the modern era while preserving its original cars, tracks, driving experience, and distinctive atmosphere.

The project already features enhanced GPU rendering, widescreen support, extended draw distances, improved lighting, shadows, reflections, ambient occlusion, global illumination, and weather effects.

Press F2 during gameplay to switch between three rendering modes: Original, Native, and Advanced, allowing you to experience the game with different levels of visual enhancement.

Future plans include replacing and upgrading the original sprites, materials, and vehicle models to further modernize the game's visuals while staying true to its original design.

It's still a work in progress, with plenty of bugs and performance issues to iron out. There's a long way to go, but the goal is to give this 1996 classic the remaster it deserves!

Here's the link to the project: https://www.moddb.com/mods/the-need-for-speed-special-edition-remastered
It requires the original PC NFS:SE CD for installation.


r/needforspeed • • 39m ago

Image / GIF There are AR12 stickers in Unbound

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Was searching for SPEEDHUNTERS decal and accidentally noticed very familiar stickers


r/needforspeed • • 15h ago

Discussion I sent SGI an insurance claim about my incidents in the city of Rockport!

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I hope they approved my claim towards the RPPD Helicopter in front of me. : D


r/needforspeed • • 23h ago

Meme Lore Accurate Nevada Highway

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r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Video / Cinematic Why Is This Content So Trendy?

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I'm sorry but why is nfs social media content so popular. Im mean i get it nostalgia runs this 2020s decade but for me its so repetitive.


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Fan Concept / Content (Mods) Mesh import NFS 2015

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Some of my abandoned mesh import projects from last year


r/needforspeed • • 18h ago

Image / GIF Well that was painful. Loved every second.

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r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Discussion If you are someone who hates outruns but still want the unique parts the best place to win them is on the highway.

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The highway has a lot of dividers, and I have noticed that when doing outruns and having the AI tickle your ass hairs and then quickly snapping into a different lane or other highway, it will cause the AI to slow and turn around to get behind you again but by then you will have already gotten your 200 metre lead.


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Meme My Man Got Pissed

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r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Question / Bug / Feedback Just found these two beauties in the loft, still Factory Sealed.

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I just found old copies of underground and most wanted for pc still Factory Sealed. Does anyone know if they're worth anything?

Trying to decide whether or not to crack them open for some nostalgia


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Discussion How to get prestige gold in 2015 NFS

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I'm trying to get Gold Prestige, drifting in a Lamborghini Huracán with a drift setup and everything. I even installed a turbo mod, but I still can't get past Silver. Is there any mod that could help me get enough points? I really want to unlock that damn Platinum trophy while the servers are still online. I've been drifting on the exact same track for three days straight. I'm playing on PC.