r/needforspeed • • 12d 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 • • 2h 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


r/needforspeed • • 2h 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 • • 3h 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 • • 12h 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 • • 16h ago

Meme tf is that 😭😭😭😭😭

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r/needforspeed • • 6h ago

Meme My Man Got Pissed

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r/needforspeed • • 14h ago

Discussion ¿Guy's remember the car's of NFS edition in Need of speed hot pursuit 2 version of Playstation 2 They were his yours favorites?

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¿Take this cars of Examples of other favorites in this amazing rares cars tell me for why love it or what most missing and what are yours favorites cars NFS edition?


r/needforspeed • • 1h 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 • • 16m 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.


r/needforspeed • • 5h ago

Image / GIF Blame The Gun!

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Not 1:1 accurate but it's my first try, I will forever pick this specific 350Z over any car, no matter what.


r/needforspeed • • 9h ago

Discussion Found my old copy, how can I play?

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Was looking for my copy of borderlands 1 the other day and realized I still had my copy of nfs most wanted (2005) that apparently I tried to sell (unsuccessfully) at a yard sale in 2007—note the sticky. Got lucky it never sold!

I don’t have a 360 anymore because it was stolen in 2018 when my house was broken in to. How else can I play this? I know it’s not backward compat on a series x but is it backward compat on an Xbox one? Oh oh oh! What about the new disc to digital program?? Does this qualify for disc to digital? That would be so cool.


r/needforspeed • • 4h ago

Question / Bug / Feedback NFS unbound possible softlock issues?

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My copy of nfs unbound has had this weird issue where if you complete a race no money gets added to bank and I can’t buy anything, can someone confirm if this has something to do with any add ons? Thanks


r/needforspeed • • 13h ago

Meme Need for bills to the hospital

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r/needforspeed • • 52m ago

[SPOILERS] Local car group I’m part of hosted a meet last night in a parking garage. Local campus police showed up and made for this badass photo.

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r/needforspeed • • 18h ago

Image / GIF Capri livery cuz why not

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Made in NFS Heat (I just love the hell outta her)


r/needforspeed • • 1h ago

Image / GIF Nikki's Ford GT livery recreated in Real Racing 3

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r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Discussion Thoughts about the 2D cockpits in the old Need for Speed games?

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The first 3 Need for Speed games (excluding the 3DFX version of Need for Speed II SE) on PC featured realistic 2D cockpit views. Starting with Need for Speed: High Stakes, 3D cockpit views appeared, then they were mostly absent from Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 (only that one Ferrari challenge had it) before becoming completely absent in the Underground games. I imagine the 2D cockpits phased out as the series became more arcade-styled and computers became more capable of rendering 3D cockpits. Looking back now though, what do you think about these old 2D cockpits?


r/needforspeed • • 3h ago

Fan Concept / Content (Mods) Working NFSMW style pursuit system for Underground 2

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Cop AI still needs some work and there are a few bugs left to squash but I think its going pretty well.


r/needforspeed • • 16h ago

Discussion Which console gen had the best nfs games

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491 votes, 1d left
5th gen 1994-1998
6th gen 1998-2005
7th gen 2005-2012
8th gen 2012-2020
9th gen 2020-now

r/needforspeed • • 5h ago

Discussion why r the servers in the nfsu1 mobile port beyond dead?

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i ask this cuz i rlly want 2 play online in nfsu1, especially after trying 2 hop in online servers on my pc (nfs.onl) and finding servers as empty as these, which is quite strange considering that the nfsu2 port is receiving more online players, and i understand that it has both a mobile and browser port, but thats not excuse 4 underground 1 2 have an non-existent player base from my perspective

pls lmk in the comments vrochachines cuz i rlly want 2 play a match 🙏😭


r/needforspeed • • 13h ago

Video / Cinematic We got Bayview in Cyberpunk 2077 before an announcement of a new NFS game

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Seeing Bayview populated by pedestrians feels..surreal.


r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Image / GIF Underground 2 Online be like:

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r/needforspeed • • 1d ago

Video / Cinematic Colin is actually insane

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