Game Trailers has a hands-on video playing NFS Hot Pursuit at the E3 Expo, it can be viewed in HD on Game Trailers

GameSpot interviewed Craig Sullivan, Criterion’s enthusiastic creative director. It can be read at GameSpot.

Electronic Arts’ NFS Ron has done podcasts from day 1, 2 and 3 of E3, check them out for some interesting bits about the upcoming NFS Hot Pursuit game.

This November, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit will transform online racing by bringing to life the adrenaline and intensity of high speed cop pursuits and changing the way that people connect and compete with their friends. Key features include:

Career – For the first time in Need for Speed history, players will experience the gripping and heart-racing action of both cops and racers. Hot Pursuit seamlessly links a tremendously deep and fully-defined single player career with a groundbreaking multiplayer experience across all race modes. In the end, whether playing online with friends, taking on friends challenges or the single player career, players will earn bounty that levels them up and unlocks new cars, weapons and equipment.

Need For Speed Autolog – In Need for Speed Hot Pursuit, your friends drive your gameplay experience. Need for Speed Autolog is a revolutionary system that connects friends directly to each other’s games, enabling them to compare and share all their experiences, pictures and challenges. Need for Speed Autolog instinctively delivers challenges based on what your friends have been doing, creating a hugely dynamic, socially competitive experience.

Weapons and Equipment – Enhance the intensity of the pursuit using multiple weapons as the heat level increases during a pursuit. Whether taking down suspects with a variety of cop weapons or using evasion equipment as a racer to outsmart the cops, players will always have a method for gaining an edge over their opponent.

Cars – In Hot Pursuit, the cars go from hot to hotter. Experience the thrill of driving the world’s most desirable high performance cars at incredible speeds. Feel the power of busting suspects in supercharged cop interceptors like the Lamborghini Reventon or outsmarting the law as a racer in high performance supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque.

Seacrest County – Explore a world as diverse as the California coastline with desert, forest, seaside and mountainous regions. The open world of Seacrest County is designed to create the most intense pursuit experiences ever found in a racing game.

First screenshots available online are now here!

Pre-order today at http://hotpursuit.needforspeed.com to secure your copy of the Limited Edition, you’ll get day-one access to locked cars (the Porsche Cayman S and Dodge Challenger SRT8 for your cop career, and the Audi TT RS Coupe and Chevrolet Camaro SS for the racer side), exclusive weaponry, and equipment.

Courtesy of NeedForSpeed.com and NFSFreaks.

Incredible video from Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit now available on YouTube!

This November (the 16th), cops are back in Need for Speed in a big way. Get ready for edge-of-your-seat, open-world pursuits in our most connected game ever. – posted by Electronic Arts

The introductory trailer confirms a campaign mode for both the racer and the cop and reveals a new feature called Autolog, which tracks how you and others play, shown on leaderboards. Another new item is in-game power-ups (such as a spike strip for the cops).

Link: YouTube Hot Pursuit E3 Reveal Trailer

Live from the E3 Expo just minutes ago, Electronic Arts announced the title of the next NFS installment as ‘Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit’ set to debut on November 16, 2010. In this classic Hot Pursuit style game, players will go through a full career as a racer as well as a cop. A new featured called ‘Autolog’ tells gamers which of their friends are online and what records they’ve claimed.

Live from E3 - Need For Speed Hot Pursuit

November 16th is the date it will be available in North America, Europeans will have it on November 18 and 19 (UK). It will be made available on Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and PC. Exient (a game developer) will make this title available on the Nintendo Wii as well.

Note that during the time of this post the Electronic Arts website was down, likely due to traffic related issues, both IGN and GameSpot live feeds were fine).