India, July 14 -- Criterion hits the streets and leaves racing fans in neutral..

For over 20 years, Need for Speed has been the game for anyone who's ever wanted to outrun the cops, tune turbo kits, or rip through a city at midnight. But between the pandemic, shifting priorities, and slow development cycles, for the first time in almost a decade, the franchise is at a standstill, and there's no telling when it will get moving again. EA is in trouble, and I've heard they're quietly reassigning Criterion Games, the team behind Need for Speed, to help salvage their struggling Battlefield series. For fans of the racing series, known best by millennials and more recently by Gen Z, who discovered it through memes and mods, that's a lot like an...