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== Features ==
 
== Features ==

Revision as of 10:29, 4 October 2006

NFSUnlimited.net is a fansite of the Need for Speed racing game series.

History

NFSUnlimited.net first appeared online on April 8th 2000 on a free host Tripod.com first covering the game Need for Speed Porsche Unleashed, released March 26th the same year. On May 8th the domain was registered and soon afterwards the site moved to a proper web host.

The site slowly progressed both in content and in amount of visitors which resulted in more and more bandwidth being required. After changing several webhosts, the site settled with Edgenetwork in September 2002, where it is still hosted.

In October 2003 the site's popularity went up extremely with the release of the demo of Need for Speed Underground. It all went up with the final release of Need for Speed Underground in November of the same year. Soon after the release a new feature called the Showroom' was introduced which allowed NFSUnlimited.net's visitors to upload screenshots of their customized cars from the game.

The Showroom became the most important website feature and soon lead to the introduction of Showroom Challenges, Showroom based competition where users had to create themed cars. In June 2004 a special competition called TuningChallenge was organized. With a racing wheel and high performance mouse as the main prizes it was the biggest competition organized by any series fansite untill that date, surpassed only by next year's TuningChallenge 2 which was based on Need for Speed Underground 2 and had a high end graphics card, 3 gaming mice and several games as rewards.

In August 2005 NFSUnlimited.net's webmaster was invited to a Community Day event organized by Electronic Arts, Need for Speed developer, in Vancouver, Canada. Full coverage of event was available on the website.

Right now the website has about 28000 users who wrote over 200000 forum articles and 180000 on-site comments.


Features

The website offers downloads for all Need for Speed games from Need for Speed High Stakes to the latest Need for Speed Carbon. There is news available covering the latest titles, a live IRC chat, articles, an active forum and the before mentioned Showroom.

Free website hosting is also offered to other Need for Speed fan sites.

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