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Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010 video game)
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) is a Criterion Games-developed arcade racer for EA, released November 16, 2010, reviving cops-versus-racers chases in Seacrest County and introducing the Autolog network; it scored 88 on Metacritic and was remastered in 2020.
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 is a 2002 arcade-style racing game by Electronic Arts, the series' sixth entry, with police chases and exotic cars.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005 video game)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2005), by EA Black Box, is a Rockport-set street racing game built on a 15-racer Blacklist and escalating police pursuits; it sold 16 million copies and won 2006 AIAS Racing Game of the Year.
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012 video game)
Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) is Criterion Games' open-world arcade racer rebooting the 2005 title, released October 30, 2012 by EA for Xbox 360, PS3, Vita, PC, iOS, and Android, set in Fairhaven with EasyDrive, Autolog 2, Speed Points, and over 50 cars.
Need for Speed: No Limits
Need for Speed: No Limits (NFS No Limits) is a 2015 free-to-play arcade racing game for iOS and Android by Firemonkeys and EA, set in Blackridge, with fuel-limited short races, blueprints, and ongoing live-service updates.
Need for Speed: ProStreet
Need for Speed: ProStreet is a 2007 racing game by EA Black Box, the eleventh in the series, built around legal race-day events and realistic damage.
Need for Speed: The Run
Need for Speed: The Run (2011) is EA Black Box's cross-country racing game, the 18th series entry and first on Frostbite 2, following Jack Rourke from San Francisco to New York; Metacritic 68, delisted 2021.
Need for Speed: Undercover
Need for Speed: Undercover (2008), twelfth NFS game by EA Black Box. Open-world racer set in Tri-City Bay with an undercover-cop story, Heroic Driving Engine, and police pursuits; Metacritic 64, mixed reception.
Need for Speed: Underground
Need for Speed: Underground (2003), EA Black Box's street racing game, first in the series with aftermarket visual customization and nitrous oxide; sold about 15 million copies and spawned Underground 2 (2004).
Need for Speed: Underground 2
Need for Speed: Underground 2 (NFSU2) is EA Black Box's November 2004 street racing game set in the open city of Bayview, with circuit, drag, sprint, drift, and URL events, deep tuning customization, and the series' first SUVs.
Need for Speed: World
Need for Speed: World (NFSW, formerly World Online) was EA's free-to-play MMO racing game for Windows, launched July 2010, set in a Tri-City map from Most Wanted and Carbon; shut down July 14, 2015, revived by Soapbox Race World.
NEED study
NEED study (Neuromed Epilepsy EEG Database, NCT04647825): observational IRCCS Neuromed trial building a free long-term EEG and ECG database of 200 drug-resistant epilepsy patients with expert seizure annotations for automatic seizure detection research.
Need You Now (Lady Antebellum song)
"Need You Now" is a 2009 country-pop single by Lady Antebellum (Lady A), written with Josh Kear, produced with Paul Worley; it hit No. 2 on the Hot 100 and won five Grammys including Record and Song of the Year.
Need Your Love (OneRepublic song)
"Need Your Love" is a OneRepublic single released April 3, 2026 via BMG, produced by Ryan Tedder and co-written with James Essien and David Kushner; a 3:58 pop-rock song that entered UK charts on April 16, 2026.
Need-blind admission
Need-blind admission: college admissions policy ignoring an applicant's ability to pay (versus need-aware admission). Covers US prevalence (92% public, 81% private, 2007), the 1994 Section 568 antitrust exemption, international-student exceptions, and economic modeling of needy-student enrollment.
Needed Me
"Needed Me" is a 2016 Rihanna song from ANTI (Deluxe), produced by DJ Mustard and written by ten writers including Starrah and Frank Dukes. It peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100, reached No. 1 on Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, and had a Harmony Korine-directed video.
Needful Things
Needful Things (1991) is Stephen King's horror novel, subtitled The Last Castle Rock Story, in which shopkeeper Leland Gaunt sells Castle Rock, Maine residents their desires for a prank that spirals into town-wide violence; adapted as a 1993 film with Max von Sydow and Ed Harris.
Needful Things (film)
Needful Things (1993) is Fraser Clarke Heston's film adaptation of Stephen King's 1991 novel, starring Max von Sydow as shopkeeper Leland Gaunt and Ed Harris as Sheriff Alan Pangborn, released August 27, 1993 by Castle Rock Entertainment.
Needham question
The Needham question, also called the Needham Puzzle or Grand Question, is Joseph Needham's problem of why modern science arose in Europe and not in China despite its technical achievements.
Needing You (孤男寡女)
Needing You (孤男寡女, Goo laam gwa lui) is a 2000 Hong Kong office romantic comedy directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai, starring Andy Lau and Sammi Cheng; adapted from a radio play, it earned about HK$35 million and topped the 2000 Hong Kong box office.
Needle biopsy
Needle biopsy is a diagnostic procedure in which a hollow needle, usually guided by imaging, removes cells or tissue from a suspected lesion for microscopic examination.
Needle coke
Needle coke is a premium grade of coke with a highly oriented, needle-like structure, the principal raw material for graphite electrodes in electric arc furnace steelmaking.
Needle fasciotomy
Needle fasciotomy, also called needle aponeurotomy or percutaneous needle fasciotomy, is a minimally invasive hand procedure that divides Dupuytren's contracture cords with a hypodermic needle under local anesthesia.
Needle in a haystack (LLM evaluation)
Needle in a haystack (NIAH) is an LLM evaluation in which a planted fact must be retrieved from long filler text, introduced by Gregory Kamradt in 2023.
Needle Peak
Needle Peak is a 300 m peak on the south coast of Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, on the west side of Brunow Bay.
Needle telegraph
A needle telegraph is an electric telegraph that displays signals as the deflection of magnetized needles. Cooke and Wheatstone's 1837 versions were the first electric telegraphs in commercial service.
Needle telegraph code
A needle telegraph code is an alphabet in which letters are represented by deflections of magnetized needles, devised by Pavel Schilling in 1832 and refined by Cooke and Wheatstone.
Needle valve
A needle valve is a flow control valve that regulates fluid or gas through a small orifice with a tapered needle, allowing fine, precise flow adjustment.
Needle-free injection
Needle-free injection is a drug delivery method that uses a high-velocity fluid jet instead of a needle, delivering vaccines and medications in about a tenth of a second.
Needlefish
Needlefish (Belonidae) are slender surface predators with a full, toothed beak of equal jaws, from 6-7 cm freshwater forms to 2 m marine species, worldwide in tropical and temperate waters.