{"title":"Stellar Entertainment","description":"\u003cp\u003eStellar Entertainment is a racing specialist founded by people who helped define the arcade driving game. Paul Ross and Chris Roberts are both Criterion Games veterans who worked on every mainline Burnout release. Their studio is based in Guildford, England, the same town Criterion calls home, and has a second office in Utrecht in the Netherlands. Roberts was the original designer of Burnout. Ross was a lead engineer on the early games, served as technical director on Burnout Revenge, and was online lead on Burnout 3: Takedown and Burnout Paradise. Ross now runs Stellar as founder and CEO, with Roberts as creative director. That shared history shaped the studio's first major project. Electronic Arts handed the pair Burnout Paradise Remastered, with Roberts as creative director and Ross as technical director. It was a return to the open-world streets of Paradise City, launching on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One in March 2018 and later reaching PC and Nintendo Switch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStellar's next project for EA took it back to another Criterion landmark. Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered released on November 6, 2020 for PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch. It rebuilt Criterion's 2010 Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit with enhanced visuals, cross-platform multiplayer and the Autolog rivalry system, and included the original game's main DLC. Stellar is credited as developer, and the Criterion and Stellar logos share the trailer's end card. Since then the studio has worked on other EA productions: it assisted on the dodgeball brawler Knockout City in 2021 and worked alongside Criterion on Need for Speed Unbound in 2022. It has also described an unannounced AAA arcade racer in development in Unreal Engine 5 for current consoles and PC. What Stellar offers players is continuity. Its remasters are handled by veterans of the studio that built the originals, so the cop-versus-racer pursuits of Seacrest County and the takedown-heavy chaos of Paradise City keep the feel that made them classics.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-remastered-pc-ea-app-game","title":"Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered","description":"\u003cp class=\"lead\"\u003eNeed for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered brings back Criterion Games' celebrated 2010 take on the series, rebuilt by Stellar Entertainment with enhanced visuals, cross-platform multiplayer and all of the original's main DLC. The premise is simple and still brilliant: every road in Seacrest County is a contest between racers who want to get away and cops who want to stop them, and you get to drive for both sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTwo Careers, One County\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe single-player career runs racers and the police side by side, and each plays like its own game. As a racer you are flat out on coastal highways, mountain passes and desert straights, earning nitrous by drifting, threading oncoming traffic and skimming past near misses. As a cop you drive interceptor versions of the same exotic cars, and the job turns from going fast to closing the net. Every event pays out in Bounty, which unlocks new cars, weapons and equipment on both sides of the law, so there is always another pursuit pulling you forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eTactical Weaponry on Both Sides\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdl\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eInterceptor Equipment\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eCops can drop spike strips behind them, lock on with an EMP, call in roadblocks ahead of a fleeing suspect and request a helicopter to track a target from above. Using them well means planning the bust several corners ahead, not just ramming at top speed and hoping for a takedown.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003cdt\u003eRacer Countermeasures\u003c\/dt\u003e\n\u003cdd\u003eRacers carry spike strips and EMP of their own, plus a jammer that scrambles police electronics and a turbo boost for breaking clear of a closing net. Timing a counterattack at the right moment is often the difference between a clean escape and a wrecked car at the side of the road.\u003c\/dd\u003e\n\u003c\/dl\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAutolog and Cross-Platform Multiplayer\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAutolog was the feature that defined Hot Pursuit on release, and it still sits at the heart of the game. It tracks your friends' times across every event, posts results to the Speedwall and recommends challenges based on what they have just done, so beating a friend's time becomes a running rivalry rather than a one-off race. The remaster adds cross-platform sync and new multiplayer gameplay, so those rivalries and head-to-head races and pursuits work whichever platform your friends play on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat the Remaster Adds\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAll of the original's main DLC is included from the start, adding around six hours of extra gameplay and more than 30 additional challenges to the career, so the full Seacrest County experience is there from your first drive.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnhanced visuals bring the game up to date for today's hardware, giving the sun-bleached coastline, dense forests and the gleam of the supercar roster the sharper presentation the original's chases always deserved.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew wraps and car colors, an updated photo mode and gallery, fewer hard stops and a range of quality-of-life updates make the whole package smoother and more rounded than it was back in 2010.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eA Criterion Classic, Back on the Road\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHot Pursuit was Criterion's first turn at Need for Speed after Burnout, and you can feel that lineage in every aggressive takedown and every high-speed escape. Stellar Entertainment, founded by former Criterion staff and also behind Burnout Paradise Remastered, has handled the remaster with clear respect for what made it work. If you have never played it, this is the version to start with. Choose your first car, decide which side of the law you want to begin on, and see how long your friends' times survive once you hit Seacrest County.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Electronic Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31427590684758,"sku":"PC_4409844400214_DL_GL","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0875\/3268\/files\/card-need-for-speed-hot-pursuit-remastered-pc-ea-app-game.jpg?v=1791427470"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.pjsgames.com\/en-ch\/collections\/stellar-entertainment.oembed","provider":"PJ's Games","version":"1.0","type":"link"}