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It's an intriguing story that goes far in setting up the Crimson Reign mini-series, as well as the next arcs of Star Wars, Darth Vader, Bounty Hunters and Doctor Aphra, too.īounty Hunters #17 delivers a deft punch to the gut as readers see Valance unleashed with a final page that had us agog. After the buildup of the War of the Bounty Hunters crossover event, Leia and Qi'ra meet face to face in Star Wars #18 over their shared love of Han Solo. Criterion has spent its time since then supporting development of Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Battlefront 2, and most recently Battlefield 5’s Firestorm battle royale mode.Finally. Criterion was supposed to work on another title, an unnamed extreme sports game revealed at E3 2014.īut studio co-founders Alex Ward and Fiona Sperry had left the company at the beginning of 2014, and the unnamed project was scrapped. Criterion, best known for the Burnout series on the previous two console generations, developed 2010’s Need for Speed : Hot Pursuit and 2012’s Need for Speed: Most Wanted.īut in the fall of 2013, development of Need for Speed Rivals shifted entirely from Criterion to Ghost Games, with the majority of Criterion developers at the time reassigned to an office called Ghost Games UK. The remaining staff will form an engineering hub called EA Gothenburg and support development across all of the company.Ī tipster identifying themselves as a former Ghost Games and future Criterion employee described the same arrangement to Polygon, adding that Ghost Games workers in Romania would reabsorbed into other teams working at that location.ĮA, in its statement, said it would transfer some positions from Gothenburg, Sweden to Criterion, located in Guildford, England. Ghost Games, makers of the last three Need for Speed games for Electronic Arts, has been dissolved and the racing series is being handed back to Criterion Games.Įlectronic Arts confirmed the franchise overhaul in a statement to, acknowledging that as many as 30 positions at Ghost Games could be at risk.
