Need for Speed (series)

This article is about the Electronic Arts video game series. For the 2014 film based on the video game franchise, see Need for Speed (film). For the 2015 video game reboot, see Need for Speed.

1994–1997	1997–2003	2003–2008	2008–2013	2013–2014
2014–2020, 2022–present	2019–2020, 2021–present	2020–2022	2022–present

1994–1997

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The original logo, only used in Road and Track presents: The Need for Speed.

1997–2003

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Need for Speed became a video game series for the first time in 1997 when Need for Speed II released. The last game using this logo was Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 in 2002.

2003–2008

The first video game using this logo is Need for Speed: Underground in 2003. The last game using this logo was Need for Speed: ProStreet in 2007.

2008-2013, 2020, 2022

Alternative variant

Wordmark

The "N" emblem

The first video game using this logo is Need for Speed: Undercover, which released in November 2008. Used with or without the "N" emblem. The last game using this logo was the rebooted Need for Speed: Most Wanted in 2012, although the "N" emblem continues to see use within Need for Speed: No Limits, which was first released in 2015, though its appearances in that game has been reduced from 2021 onward. It returned for the 2020 remaster of Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010), which used this logo. It made a brief cameo reappearance in Need for Speed Unbound (2022), in the game's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse-inspired start screen.

2013–2014

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The first and only video game using this logo is Need for Speed Rivals in 2013. Also used for the logo of the Need for Speed Network app for iOS and Android.

2014–2020, 2022–present

Blue variant from Need for Speed 2015 reboot

Red-orange variant from Need for Speed Payback

Alternate version of the 2008-2013 logo, first used for the 2014 Need for Speed motion picture. First used for a video game on the 2015 reboot Need for Speed. While it was seemingly discontinued in 2021 after Need for Speed: No Limits updated its interface, this logo was restored for the app icon beginning from June 2022 onward.

2019–2020, 2021–present

Need for Speed Heat used an abbreviated version of the 2014 logo. Although it was seemingly quickly retired after Criterion took over, an October 2021 interface update to Need for Speed: No Limits updated the logo of the six-year-old mobile game to use the abbreviated NFS logo.

2020–2022

The logo was updated. The font for the word "for" was changed. Despite the logo rebrand for Unbound, the tyre wells in the game still used this logo.

2022–present

The abbreviated version of the logo was then refreshed with a modified Retrive font for Need for Speed Unbound.