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Once a month, host Derek and a guest will dissect and discuss just one game available on Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service, which was chosen for them (usually) at random.

Whether the game is a magical or a horrible experience, they’ll force themselves through it, share their thoughts, and let you know whether or not the game is worth your time! At the end of each episode, they’ll also randomly select the game for the following show, so you always know what’s coming up on the next adventure.

This month, Geekscape Games’ Shane O’Hare returns to the show to discuss 2015’s Need For Speed. Is it a reboot? Can it recapture the magic of Need For Speed Underground?

No. Definitely not, but listen on anyways for lots of thoughts and an entertaining discussion.

Become the ultimate icon of today’s urban car culture in Need for Speed™, featuring Five Ways to Play and a huge open world to race and explore from dusk ‘till dawn. • FIVE WAYS TO PLAY – Earn reputation and master all Five Ways to Play – Speed, Style, Build, Crew and Outlaw – to win your own way. • RICH, AUTHENTIC CUSTOMIZATION – Customize your car and express your style with extensive visual modifications, performance upgrades and handling tuned to your specification. • REAL WORLD ICONS – Get inspired by the icons of today’s urban car scene – Magnus Walker, Ken Block, Nakai-San, Risky Devil and Morohoshi-San. Need for Speed… Tonight We Ride.

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This Week

Nintendo earnings report.

5.7 million Amiibos sold world wide.

/r/cummingonamiibos. NSFW 18+

Juan predicts the next Nintendo Console.

Target Canada exclusives getting released at other retailers.

EA charges for “gas” in Need for Speed: No Limits.

Resident Evil “Life Crystals”.

Indigo Prophecy remastered edition confirmed, coming to iOS.

Homeworld 1 & 2 remastered edition announced.

Will This War of Mine iOS EVER get released?

Majoras Mask 3D.

Dying Light.

Hyper Dimension Neptunia.

Grim Fandango.

Smash Bros.

Hyrule Warriors.

Fantasy Life.

Injustice Gods Among Us.

Infamous First Light.

Walking Dead Season 1.

Destiny: Dark Below.

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Briefly: I’m actually really looking forward to Need For Speed. Aside from featuring Aaron Paul (which means that I’m going to watch it), it definitely looks like the best racing / car / action flick this side of Fast & Furious.

Take a look at the cool theatrical trailer here if you haven’t, and then take a look at a neat featurette below, in which Aaron goes to driving school… and tries not to hit the cones.

Need for Speed stars Aaron Paul, Dakota Johnson, Michael Keaton, Dominic Cooper, and plenty of others, and hits theatres on March 14th.

Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, DreamWorks Pictures’ “Need for Speed” captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. An exciting return to the great car-culture films of the 1960s and ’70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, “Need for Speed” taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.

 

The story chronicles a near-impossible cross-country race against time—one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. In a last attempt to save his struggling garage, blue-collar mechanic Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul)—who with his team skillfully builds and races muscle cars on the side—reluctantly partners with wealthy, arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). Just as a major sale to car broker Julia Bonet (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save the business, a disastrous, unsanctioned race results in Dino framing Tobey for manslaughter.

 

Two years later and fresh out of prison, Tobey is set on revenge with plans to take down Dino in the high-stakes De Leon race—the Super Bowl of underground racing. To get there in time, Tobey must run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet, dodging cops coast-to-coast and dealing with fallout from a dangerous bounty Dino put on his car. With his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia as allies, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.

Briefly: Dreamworks has just debuted a new poster for Scott Waugh’s Need for Speed, which hits theatres on March 14th, and actually looks pretty rad for a video-game movie (check out the latest trailer here if you haven’t).

I’ll watch anything with Aaron Paul in it, so I’m definitely down for this one. Take a look at the poster below, and let us know if you’ll be checking out Need For Speed!

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Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, DreamWorks Pictures’ “Need for Speed” captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. An exciting return to the great car-culture films of the 1960s and ’70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, “Need for Speed” taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.

 

The story chronicles a near-impossible cross-country race against time—one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. In a last attempt to save his struggling garage, blue-collar mechanic Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul)—who with his team skillfully builds and races muscle cars on the side—reluctantly partners with wealthy, arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). Just as a major sale to car broker Julia Bonet (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save the business, a disastrous, unsanctioned race results in Dino framing Tobey for manslaughter.

 

Two years later and fresh out of prison, Tobey is set on revenge with plans to take down Dino in the high-stakes De Leon race—the Super Bowl of underground racing. To get there in time, Tobey must run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet, dodging cops coast-to-coast and dealing with fallout from a dangerous bounty Dino put on his car. With his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia as allies, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.

Briefly: I was always going to watch Dreamworks’ Need for Speed movie. After seeing the first teaser, it was simply because Aaron Paul was starring in it. After the film’s latest trailer however, I’ll be checking it out because it looks bad-ass.

Seriously, take a look at the trailer below, and tell me that it doesn’t look cool.

http://youtu.be/NqLsVh1tDS0

Need for Speed stars Aaron Paul, Dakota Johnson, Michael Keaton, Dominic Cooper, and plenty of others, and hits theatres on March 14th.

Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, DreamWorks Pictures’ “Need for Speed” captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. An exciting return to the great car-culture films of the 1960s and ’70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, “Need for Speed” taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.
 
The story chronicles a near-impossible cross-country race against time—one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. In a last attempt to save his struggling garage, blue-collar mechanic Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul)—who with his team skillfully builds and races muscle cars on the side—reluctantly partners with wealthy, arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). Just as a major sale to car broker Julia Bonet (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save the business, a disastrous, unsanctioned race results in Dino framing Tobey for manslaughter.
 
Two years later and fresh out of prison, Tobey is set on revenge with plans to take down Dino in the high-stakes De Leon race—the Super Bowl of underground racing. To get there in time, Tobey must run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet, dodging cops coast-to-coast and dealing with fallout from a dangerous bounty Dino put on his car. With his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia as allies, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.

Briefly: The first trailer for Dreamwork’s Need For Speed has finally made its way online, and as expected, it doesn’t look to share many similarities with the video game it’s based on.

Aside from cars going fast and getting blown up, of course.

But, the Need For Speed movie does have something that none of the games ever have: Aaron Paul. After his incredible run on AMC’s Breaking Bad, his name alone is bound to sell a few tickets (including mine).

Watch the trailer below, and let us know what you think of it! Need For Speed hits theatres on March 14th, 2014.

Based on the most successful racing video game franchise ever with over 140 million copies sold, DreamWorks Pictures’ “Need for Speed” captures the thrills of the game in a real-world setting. An exciting return to the great car-culture films of the 1960s and ’70s, when authenticity brought a new level of intensity to the action, “Need for Speed” taps into what makes the American myth of the open road so enticing.
 
The story chronicles a near-impossible cross-country race against time—one that begins as a mission for revenge, but proves to be one of redemption. In a last attempt to save his struggling garage, blue-collar mechanic Tobey Marshall (Aaron Paul)—who with his team skillfully builds and races muscle cars on the side—reluctantly partners with wealthy, arrogant ex-NASCAR driver Dino Brewster (Dominic Cooper). Just as a major sale to car broker Julia Bonet (Imogen Poots) looks like it will save the business, a disastrous, unsanctioned race results in Dino framing Tobey for manslaughter.
 
Two years later and fresh out of prison, Tobey is set on revenge with plans to take down Dino in the high-stakes De Leon race—the Super Bowl of underground racing. To get there in time, Tobey must run a high-octane, action-packed gauntlet, dodging cops coast-to-coast and dealing with fallout from a dangerous bounty Dino put on his car. With his loyal crew and the surprisingly resourceful Julia as allies, Tobey defies odds at every turn and proves that even in the flashy world of exotic supercars, the underdog can still finish first.

Dreamworks Need For Speed adaptation has added another big name to it’s cast. Oddly enough, it’s an actor who has another movie, MGM’s Robocop, coming out the same day. Michael Keaton has signed on to join the cast of Scott Waugh’s of the Electronic Arts streetracing game of the same name. Keaton will play a “reclusive and eccentric host of an underground supercar race where he invites the best drivers from around the world.”

 

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The film, which stars Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Dominic Cooper (Captain America: The First Avenger) centers on “a local street racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After his stint in the joint, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But when the ex-partner learns of the scheme, he puts a massive bounty on the racer’s head, forcing him to run a cross-country gauntlet of illegal racers in all manner of supercharged vehicles.”

 
Need For Speed is set to hit theaters February 7, 2014.

 

Source: THR

Another big name has been added to the cast of Dreamwork’s film adaptation of EA’s Need For Speed. The film, which will star Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) as Tobey Marshall, “sees Paul play a local street racer who, after being framed for the death of a friend, joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge.”

 

Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi has just signed on to play Marshall’s best friend in the film. This isn’t the rapper and producer’s first time on screen though. He recently appeared in HBO’s How To Make It In America and the indie Two Night Stand as well as being rumored to be involved with the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot. Mescudi will join Dominic Cooper, Imogen Poots, Ramon Rodriguez, Rami Malek and Harrison Gilbertson in the Scott Waugh (Act Of Valor) directed film.

 
Need For Speed is set to hit theaters February 17, 2014.

Source: THR

Did you know that there was a Need For Speed movie in the works?

Entertainment Weekly is reporting that Jesse Pinkman himself, Aaron Paul has just been attached to the project. Scott Waugh (Act of Valor) is set to direct the film, which starts production early next year.

Breaking Bad is almost over, so it’s no surprise that the Emmy winner is moving over to movies.  Need For Speed will of course compete with the Fast and the Furious series of films, though the addition of Aaron Paul might make me actually want to see this one.

Are you a fan of the games? Are you interesting in seeing it turn into a movie? What are your thoughts on Aaron Paul? Magnets?

Need For Speed is set to open February 7, 2014.

Back in May we talked about the possibility of Scott Waugh being the director for the Need for Speed movie.

Well it has been confirmed. On the official Facebook Page, it was announced that they have tied down a contract with Dreamworks and are going to start working on a Need for Speed movie right away.

This begs the question: What do players of racing games want to see in a movie? You have the arcade lovers of the NfS:Underground games, they might be more inclined to enjoy a fast paced Fast and Furious type of movie. Then you have the simulation gamers, those who play Forza 4, they may want a movie with classic streamlined chases like in Bullitt or Ronin.

Regardless, it will interesting to see what comes out of Dreamworks and Need for Speed.

Dreamworks has offered war propaganda “Act of Valor” director Scott Waugh to direct the film adaptation of the hit racing series Need For Speed.

Now Dreamworks keeps insisting that nothing is solid and these are only “discussions”, I am lead to believe they are further along than they want us to think. With George Gatins already said to have written a script.

I am kind of intrigued as to what will come of this franchise on film. NFS has always been a great series of games introducing some great music and different racing themes in all of their releases. With Need For Speed Most Wanted and Undercover introducing strong narrative elements to their games, I can see this series come to film easily.