Xbox One is blazing a trail for multi-generational backward compatibility
Backward compatibility is not new. ColecoVision’s 1982 Expansion Module 1 and Sega’s 1989 Power Base Converter set the stage for new consoles to play...
December 2016 Xbox Live Games With Gold: Burnout Paradise, Sleeping Dogs, and more
It’s an outstanding month for the Games With Gold service on Xbox Live as Microsoft is giving players a chance to play one of the...
Burnout studio founders leave Electronic Arts to 'start afresh' with new game company
Criterion Games will continue under new leadership.
Burnout studio Criterion down to just 17 people
Criterion is working on something new and unrelated to the Need For Speed franchise.
E3 2013: The year of the open world
This year's E3 featured a multitude of titles with nonlinear gameplay in sprawling environments. Here are pretty much all of them.
Coming close to paradise with Need for Speed: Most Wanted (review)
Criterion returns to open-world racing for the first time since Burnout Paradise, and Need for Speed Most Wanted does a fine job maintaining that legacy ... even if it doesn't do very much that's new along the way.