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 Tuesday, 9. March 2010

SHIFT Exotic Racing Series DLC Announced
by Bojan at 19:11 • Comments (12) • Link to news article

Exotic Racing Series downloadable content for Need for Speed SHIFT is coming to PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on March 18th!
What we are getting is 7 new cars, including the all new McLaren MP4-12C, Gumpert Apollo and the legendary BMW M1. You'll be able to drive all these cars in 50 new career events and one the all new Riviera track with 4 racing layouts. All this will be available for $10 on PS3 and for 800 MS points on the 360.

Official announcement on NeedforSpeed.com
McLaren MP4-12C Car of the Day feature on NeedforSpeed.com

Update: List of all cars in the DLC
Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione
BMW M1 Procar
Gumpert Apollo
Honda NSX
McLaren MP4-12C
Maserati GranTurismo S
Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Stirling Moss

 Tuesday, 16. February 2010

SHIFT Ferrari DLC Launch Video
by Bojan at 09:07 • Comments (10) • Link to news article

Today is the release day of the Ferrari Racing Pack DLC for Xbox360. You can get it exclusively on the Xbox Live Marketplace for 800 MS points. More info about what you get with the DLC here.



HD version in our videos section

 Tuesday, 9. February 2010

Ferrari Racing Pack Announced for NFS SHIFT!
by Skyline_man at 01:34 • Comments (56) • Link to news article

So it's official, Ferrari will make its first comeback to NFS since its last appearance in NFS Hot Pursuit 2.



The Ferrari Racing Pack will be available exclusively on Xbox360 for $10.00 or 800 MS Points and will include the following Ferrari models:

- FERRARI 430 SCUDERIA
- FERRARI 599 GTB FIORIANO
- FERRARI CALIFORNIA
- FERRARI F50 GT
- FERRARI F430 CHALLENGE
- FERRARI F430 GTC
- FERRARI F430 SPIDER
- FERRARI FXX
- FERRARI SCUDERIA SPIDER 16M
- FERRARI SUPERAMERICA

Also those following bonus racing events will be available:

- Ferrari Race Exhibition – Four single race events
- Ferrari Time Challenge - Hot Lap – Four single time attack events.
- Ferrari Mixed Track Competition – Four series events consisting of two races at multi layout tracks.
- Ferrari Time Challenge - Time Attack – Four single time attack events.
- Ferrari Series Competition – Three series events consisting of five races.
- Ferrari Eliminator Competition – Four eliminator based events (2 Lap eliminator and 2 Time eliminator).
- Ferrari Endurance Competition – Two single endurance events.
- Ferrari World Tour – A single race series consisting of 5 races.

For more screenshots and information, visit the official site.

 Thursday, 4. February 2010

Ferrari in Need for Speed SHIFT?
by Bojan at 19:13 • Comments (22) • Link to news article

From what we hear, Ferrari is coming to Need for Speed SHIFT. Right now it's only a rumour, but stay tuned, this might just be incredible enough to be true!

 Wednesday, 20. January 2010

$30k SHIFT Tournament update
by Bojan at 19:52 • Comment (0) • Link to news article

The Autotrader.com Need for Speed SHIFT tournament is well underway with plenty of users posting rather fast times on the specified set of Career events. Remeber, this is a tournament open to North American residents with the first prize being $30,000 toward the purchase of a new car on Autotrader.com.
To qualify for the final tournament where 4 finalists race each other in EA studios in Blackbox, you need to post a top time as many of the 7 events as you can, with the events being the following:

Tier 1 Manufacturer 135i Coupe Race at Donington National
Tier 1 Race Coalition Alpental
Tier 1 Time Attack at Tokyo Club
Tier 2 Europe Series Race at Spa GP
Tier 2 Mixed Event Laguna Seca
Tier 3 Endurance Race at Ambush Canyon
Tier 3 USA vs Europe Race at Brands Hatch GP

Yes, these are all offline career events. So if you're from North America, own an Xbox 360 or a PlayStation 3, start racing on these events and posting top times. And of course register here on the official tournament site.

You can keep track on current tournament standings on NeedforSpeed.com. To see what the overall top times are, check our leaderboards.

 Sunday, 17. January 2010

New Career Events on SHIFT Leaderboards
by Bojan at 16:09 • Comment (0) • Link to news article

Got tired of running the same events over and over again for that tiny difference of time to get a better rank on our leaderboards? No, sadly there aren't new tracks available in Need for Speed SHIFT, but there are 10 new career events available on our leaderboards for you break lap records on! The list of events is as follows:

Tier 1 Manufacturer Restricted S2000 Race at Brands Hatch Indy
Tier 1 Race Coalition Race at Dakota National
Tier 3 Endurance Race at Nordschleife
Tier 3 Endurance Race at Spa GP
Tier 3 Manufacturer Corvette Z06 Race at Donington National
Tier 4 Manufacturer Restricted All Nissan at Tokyo Circuit
Tier 4 Works vs Supercar Race at Donington GP
NFS Live US Series Race at Road America
NFS Live World Series Race at Autopolis GP
NFS Live World Tour Race at Brands Hatch GP

Thanks for all the suggestions in the comments of the leaderboards page!

Mort's Custom Corner Visual Styling Guide
by Bojan at 14:44 • Comment (1) • Link to news article

For all you Showroom enthusiast and car stylers, the official site did a series of articles title Mort's Custom Corner where a designer explains the basics of car visual design. Find out how to avoid the common mistakes, why not have too many colours on a car and why is symmetry important. All that and more on the links below.

Mort's Custom Corner part 1
Mort's Custom Corner - Making friends with symmetry
Mort's Custom Corner: Evolving your designs

 Sunday, 27. December 2009

Leaderboards Now With Select Career Events
by Bojan at 10:13 • Comment (1) • Link to news article

It's been a while since I last posted a Need for Speed SHIFT Leaderboards update, but we have big news for you today as we have added select Career events to the list of event we're tracking. The selection is the following:

Tier 1 Manufacturer 2000GT-R at Ebisu West
Tier 1 Race Coalition Alpental
Tier 1 Time Attack Autopolis Lakeside
Tier 2 Japan Series Tokyo Club
Tier 2 Mixed Event Glendale West
Tier 2 Mixed Event Laguna Seca
Tier 2 USA Series Dakota GP
Tier 3 Manufacturer 911 GT2 at London River
Tier 4 Manufacturer Restricted All BMW at Silverstone GP
Tier 4 Manufacturer Reventon at Ambush Canyon

For starters we tried as varied as possible selection of cars and tracks. It should be a challenge trying to get used to a different set of cars to what you're using online. We will be adding more events soon - all suggestions are welcome (simply post them in the comments here or on the leaderboards page).
Remember, this is all offline, but you will have to be logged in to EA Nation for the times to record.

 Saturday, 19. December 2009

A Week of Wallpapers: SHIFT DLC
by Bojan at 09:33 • Comment (1) • Link to news article

As you know the Team Racing DLC has been released recently for Need for Speed SHIFT which added 5 new cars to the game, the 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 427, 1967 Shelby GT-500, 1969 Dodge Charger R/T, 1971 Dodge Challenger R/T, and 1998 Toyota Supra Mark IV.

You can download several wallpapers of each car on the official website, just follow the links below:

A WEEK OF WALLPAPERS - PART ONE: THE 1998 TOYOTA SUPRA MARK IV
A WEEK OF WALLPAPERS - PART TWO: THE 1967 CHEVROLET CORVETTE STINGRAY 427
A WEEK OF WALLPAPERS - PART THREE: THE 1967 SHELBY GT500
A WEEK OF WALLPAPERS - PART FOUR: THE 1969 DODGE CHARGER R/T
A WEEK OF WALLPAPERS - PART FIVE: THE 1971 DODGE CHALLENGER R/T

 Thursday, 17. December 2009

SHIFT Falken Tire Demo
by Bojan at 19:01 • Comments (4) • Link to news article

If you haven't got Need for Speed SHIFT yet, you can try the new demo featuring the Falken Tire Porsche 911 GT3 RSR on Spa or London River tracks.

Download the demo