Joystiq has new info about the closing of the Need for Speed franchise. Based on a new report attributed to "a purported EA employ", the new rumors say that EA's Black Box studio will be closed, and the NFS and Skate teams will be moved to EA's Burnaby studios. It seems that EA was using three distinct teams for NFS series, and these team will be scaled back and any future NFS game will be handled by EA's Criterion Games and it will probably feature the Burnout engine.