It's been four years since we've seen a proper Burnout game from Criterion. Lately, the studio has been assigned on the annualized Need for Speed series, having worked on Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted. Fans who fear that the team has abandoned its beloved series can rest their minds a bit as creative director Craig Sullivan has promised that Criterion will work on a new Burnout in the future.

"There's still a lot of stuff we want to do with driving," he said. "We will make another Burnout game at some point. Obviously, as we're working on NFS we're thinking of really good ideas that aren't right for this series; there are ideas that we're going to explore with Burnout."

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The general buzz around Burnout Crash! was that it seemed well-suited for an iPhone game -- Jeff Cannata even mentioned it on Weekend Confirmed a few weeks back. Now EA has now officially announced that the game is destined for the iOS platform this year.

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