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Racing game Need for Speed Rivals is now available to play through Electronic Arts' subscription program, EA Access, the company announced in a post to its official blog.

Earlier this week, EA announced that Need for Speed Rivals will be added to The Vault, a collection of games you can play for free with a subscription, "in the coming weeks," so its immediate release is a little sooner than anticipated.

Need for Speed Rivals joins existing titles Battlefield 4, FIFA 14, Peggle 2, and Madden NFL 25. As previously announced, you can play these games for as long as you want, provided your subscription ($5/month or $30/year) remains active.

EA Access is available only on Xbox One, though Sony hasn't ruled out it coming to PlayStation 4 in the future.

For more on what markets EA Access is available in and data from EA showing how popular the program's six-hour trials are, read our coverage of the company's announcement from earlier in the week.

GameSpot gave Need for Speed Rivals an 8/10 for its gorgeous visuals and seamless integration of single- and multiplayer. Check out our full review, or watch the video review above.

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I'm sitting here playing Peggle 2 now, will play NFS later, and BF4 later. All for $5 to play them for a month. And people are saying it's a bad deal?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Go in any Game store and go find the cheapest game you can find, That game will most likely be either an Old EA sports title or an old Need for Speed.

These games expire basically after a year(New Madden out now Fifa in a few weeks) BF4 is terrible and my copy collects dust you talk off value well I really don't see it UFC flopped hard that is why it made the list but everything else is reaching it sell by date and all you dumb asses are doing is giving EA money for games that they know are no longer profitable.

Can't help but notice where is TitanFall ? O that's right TitanFall 2 will need to be announced before that happens, BF Hardline will be out soon so again another game no longer profitable.

The really funny thing I notice is how all off a sudden it is okay for you to be renting games now that Microsoft did a 180 on Games for Gold and this DRM Service right here but wasn't you Xtwots talking about PS+ being just game rentals a few months ago ? Wheren't you Xtwots saying it wasn't off value ? I get 6 different games every month from ANY Publisher and you Xtowts are praising getting Old ass sports games from EA for $90 a year ?

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Did your mom drop you when you were an infant? Did you eat glue as a child? Are your parents related? Because these three thing would explain why your profound idiocy. Your rants are pathetic and I'm starting to feel bad for you.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Its £20 a year for a start. And UFC is not on the list yet. Fucking idiot.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> That's not what people are saying.People just don't want digital streaming and rentals to become the norm for gaming, and if you support this you are pretty much asking for a discless streaming box for a console which would be the death of consoles as we know it.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> It isn't streaming you download the game and own it as long as you are subbed, just like PS+ which people declare to be "good value" all the time.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I know what it is

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With Netflix, Hulu, and so many other video streaming services being huge, do you see DVD and Blu-ray movies dying?

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This isn't streaming and it's hardly renting. It's paying $30 a year for 5 games (with more to come) that would normally cost over $150.

The hate stems from the fact that it's EA and it's tied to Xbox One. If Take Two did the same thing on PS4, gamers would be clamoring for it

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Yeah, that could only be the reason...nothing to do with the history of EA. If only there was some sort of record. Must be a console war thing......fool.

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Did I not say part of the reason it garners hate is because it involves EA? Here, work on your reading comprehension...

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Exactly.

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Saying that you hate EA is like saying you hate WB. "I hate WB movies except for The Dark Knight series, the first Matrix, the first Hangover, Gravity..."

"I hate EA except for Dragon Age, the first 2 Dead Space games, Battlefield Bad Company, the first two Mass Effects.... "

No?

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Well no, because most of the games I love from EA are firmly behind a solid brick wall which was built around 2010. After which there isn't a single game I love. The EA of old are gone and the EA of now is a piece of crap that is slowly decaying the industry from the inside out.

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Looking forward to plants vs zombies too, like weenfan3

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Hopefully next will be plants vs zombies.

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Many wish EA to die but...Dead Space,Mass Effect,Dragon Age?

I wish them to learn from their mistakes(too much multiplayer,stripping down combat to action,no deep role playing stuff).

These are the games i am looking for on new consoles.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Those microtransactions though.Dead Space 3 was awful as was Dragon Age origins

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Microtransactions in single player games doesnt bother me as you can get these items with your normal playtrough.

MT in matchmaking games should be a tabu.

Yes,DS 3 did not meet my expectations.I played Ds1+2 and thought they were great.

That is why i hope they learn and make more things their consumer want and not what EA wants.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> It will never happen.I rented an Ea some time ago it was a racing game maybe one of the DIRT games I forget. Anyway you had to pay to unlock new cars, I mean all of them you had to pay and after the first couple races a car upgrade was required or else you just get left in the dust.After that I swore no more EA ever again.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> I havent played any NFS(EA) or Dirt(Codemasters) games but i cant imagine that the only way for you to progress was to buy cars with real money.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Well believe it because it happened

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@Def-Trex @sladakrobot

Dirt isn't an EA game, and while you probably mean one of the NFS games (it's odd that you can't remember which), I know the most recent ones, most notably Most Wanted and Shift, are riddled with microtransactions, but I assure you that those are far from required to finish the game. Microtransactions are disgusting, yes, but let's not overreact and exaggerate.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Im not exaggerating, and maybe it wasn't DIRT, SHIFT maybe?I get those mixed up.Anyway all I know is you have to pay real money to upgrade your cars and it was definitely an Ea game because I had to sign up to Origin in order to play it.

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No, as much as I despise EA with all my heart, they only sell car packs and cars in the NFS franchise.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Not in SHIFT 1,i played it.Maybe SHIFT 2?

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I'm glad I signed up for EA access, for only $30 yearly I have unlimited access to great current-gen games, keep the good games coming

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Can't believe I'm saying this, but Access is a good deal.

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It is good deal, as long as it's up and running. When EA decides to shut it down, and they will, it won't be pretty.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> I highly doubt MS would allow EA to destroy this feature, nice try though disgruntled PS4 fan, at least you can play ps3 games on PS Now for $5 dollars for 4 hours :)

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I don't have a PS4, nice try though. But what was I thinking? When has EA ever shut down anything?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Can i borrow that crystal ball you have?I need the winning lotto numbers next week

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Sure, it's the one on the left.

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I think this program it´s great, I pay 30 dls a year for 4 games i did not have and discount of 10 percent out of games that i was going to buy at launch anyways.

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Renting is not the future of anything. Especially not for crappy EA games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >> Oh so because you dont like something then millions of other people are suppose to hate it also?What a freakin idiot.Guess EA is so bad they sell millions of game every year.EA access is amazing and a great deal.Also this is not renting so it shows you no nothing about the service

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paying insane prices to

Rent last-gen games is much worse cough cough"PlayStation Now"

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<< LINK REMOVED >> It all sucks.If this is supported by enough morons then this will be the last consoles released and physical games will go away to make room for streaming boxes and DLC.Not worth it man.And don't give me that "U mad" crap Im not a fan of Sony either and PS Now is a heap of garbage.

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Increasing that value, ponies must be sad

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<< LINK REMOVED >> What that we don't have to suffer EA games? Yeah we're sad as anything.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Trust me if sony keeps pissing off EA you will be sad.If EA ever decided to stop making games for the playstation that would be the end of sony.I would love to see it since playstation fans hate their games.It would change the gaming industry for the better.It would rid the playstation fanboys that are an embarrassment to the gaming industry.Instead of playing your playstation your on a forum about EA and Xbox putting them down.Must be some killer games the ps4 has lol

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> "If EA ever decided to stop making games for the playstation that would be the end of sony."


Are you stupid or just retarded?

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Look at you big bad name calling behind that mice and keyboard.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> Many of us are banning EA games, long before this early access scam. We really don't care if Sony carries EA games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> If that was the case Sony would ban all EA games on their console. Also it ain't shitty games.

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<< LINK REMOVED >><< LINK REMOVED >> No they pretty much are.

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Martyr77,

Nope, they arent.

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I had this game at launch but the online community was dead. Hopefully this brings more players

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well... it's a good game. definitely better than the new most wanted >.>

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