The Need for Speed video game series is published by Electronic Arts. Games in the series were primarily developed by Canadian developer EA Canada from 1992 to 2001. They were later primarily developed by Canadian developer EA Black Box for a period of the series' history from 2002 to 2011. After a stint with several game developers from 2013 through 2019, the series is currently being handled by British developer Criterion Games, whose latest title Need for Speed Unbound was released in 2022.