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It's official as EA now confirms the existence of Need for Speed: Rivals after a Frostbite developer tweeted about it a little earlier. The next instalment is being handled by Ghost Games. It's focusing on cops and racers.

We can choose to play as either with challenges and collectibles strewn through the world. In Rivals we rise in the ranks using all our pursuit and evade tricks. AllDrive has friends drop-in and out.

Microsoft has confirmed that Forza Motorsport 5 will be a launch title for the Xbox One. No other information, save a gameplay trailer, is known, but it's assumed the game will include many of the new consoles features such as cloud saves.

Due at the end of this month is Codemasters' GRID 2 and so now would be a great time to let fans know what tracks they'll be barrelling down. In a rather lengthy post they reveal there are 82 race tracks.

Most are available with day & night cycles, but some are limited to just sunset, or are tied to pre-orders. GRID 2 will be releasing on Xbox 360, PS3 and PC May 28th in the US, 31st in EU.

Microsoft may be unveiling Forza Motorsport 5 at their unveiling of the next-gen console on the 21st May in Redmond, WA as a next-gen title.

Burnout and Need for Speed rebooter extraordinaire, Criterion Games, won't be leaving tire tracks all over our desktops and TVs with their next release. The studio is drifting off into the sunset with the racing genre.

Boss man Alex Ward says that after a decade of tricked out wheels pummelling asphalt it's "time to make something new." No, before you ask, there's not another Black coming.

UPDATE: "Totally fake. Remakes and Reboots?" tweet Criterion.

Another subtitled adventure within the Need for Speed series is getting the Criterion reboot treatment, according to rumour, and this time it'll be Underground. It will apparently be set in a new Bayview City.

An anonymous party sent in a proposed logo for this reboot, saying it was in development for Xbox 360. Oddly the logo includes landmarks like Big Ben and the Coliseum. Something's not right.

Microsoft and Turn 10 Studios has announced that the April Top Gear Car Pack, featuring six new cars specifically selected by the Top Gear Magazine team, is now available to download from the Xbox Live Marketplace for 400 Microsoft points.

Turn 10 has announced the March Meguair's Car Pack downloadable content for Forza Horizon, and it's filled with some truly hot cars like the 1998 Nissan R390. Season Pass owners also get the 2010 Joss JT1.

EA is releasing three DLC packs containing new races and vehicles for Criterion's Need for Speed: Most Wanted. These new content packs were outed by leaked PlayStation 3 trophies.

They're named as the Terminal Velocity Pack, the Movie Legends Pack and the NFS Heroes Pack. Each provides new single player and multiplayer goodies tied to trophies/achievements.

Turn 10 has announced the February downloadable content for Forza Horizon, called the Jalopnik pack, which will add six new cars. The DLC will cost 400 MicroSoft Points ($4.99 USD).