When I first read this - I had my usual cynical reaction of 'my god EA please let this franchise die a dignified death instead of squeezing it dry until it collapses a wrinkled corpse'. 

But then it caught my eye that some of the developers from Blimey that made some of my favourite racing games GT Legends and the GTR games, were collaborating on NFS: Shift under the supervision of the heads of Black Box and DICE.  And well that was enough to grab my attention for this game - I've been eagerly awaiting Blimey's next game since GTR2.  EA may end up devouring Blimey as they have many others, forcing them to spew up another generic NFS title with a cynical marketing hook - but that can't be allowed to happen!   NFS is about as far from GTR as is possible so I'm anxious and intruiged to see what they come up with.  Looks a lot like GRID so far.

As for the other two games well there's some Nintendo stuff by EA Montreal and what sounds like an NFS MMO by Black Box and EA Singapore.  Neither of which I could care less about tbh.

Link: http://www.needforspeed.com/portal/site/nfs/news/details/?contentId=813d3b692862f110VgnVCM100000100d2c0aRCRD

Shift looks nice.

OPM UK has an preview of it in the next issue, I believe

NFS World Online should just be incorporated into one of the games. It would become much better

that Shift screenie looks HAWT!
Just hope gameplay is on par with the graphics.

Ok, ...none of those screens represent what the game will look like. They're promotional renders.

I wouldn't hold your breath for any of them being even remotely interesting.

Ok, ...none of those screens represent what the game will look like. They're promotional renders.

I wouldn't hold your breath for any of them being even remotely interesting.

Yep. Seriously, just let the series die after MW. Everything since MW was utter trash. The only way I see the series ever going anywhere is if they stop trying to dish out half-assed games annually.

The actual game of SHIFT will look nowhere near as good as the fake pic posted above.  I hate it when developers do that, release screen caps of games that go far beyond what current-gen consoles are capable of realistically achieving at any decent frame rate.