the game will also be the first Need For Speed to be available on next-generation consoles Xbox One and Playstation 4, as well as the current Xbox 360 and Playstation 3. The "rivals" in question ...

I don't remember the exact phrasing, but my first encounter with the loading screen of Ghost Games' Need For Speed Rivals ... pause a game of Rivals unless you make it back to one of the Hideouts ...

Then, Ghost Games took charge of the franchise, starting with 2013's Need for Speed Rivals and ending with 2019's Need for Speed Heat. EA revealed that Criterion was coming back to Need for Speed ...