Need for Speed Underground Reboot is a Hoax

We reported late last week that Need for Speed: Underground may be getting a reboot from Criterion Games. The report was based on a logo of the game, which surfaced on a number of websites, depicting a variety of cities and famous monuments in its typeface.

Following the report, Alex Ward of Criterion Games has denied that they are developing a reboot of Need for Speed: Underground. The developer took to Twitter to call the remake "totally fake".

He wrote: "Totally fake. Remakes and Reboots? #movedon" and "May as well add this. Sequels. Reboots. Remakes. Been there. Done that."

Totally fake.Remakes and Reboots? #movedon

— Alex Ward (@AlexanderJWard) April 12, 2013

May as well add this. Sequels.Reboots. Remakes. Been there. Done that.

— Alex Ward (@AlexanderJWard) April 12, 2013

It's difficult to say whether he was saying that the studio would no longer develop reboots or remakes after its last title, Need for Speed: Most Wanted, or if he was simply shooting down the possibility of a Need for Speed: Underground reboot.

Regardless of what he meant by it, there are more than enough gamers out there—ourselves included—who'd like to see a remake, reboot, or some sort of spiritual sequel to Need for Speed: Underground.