Last updated on September 17th, 2025 at 02:44 pm
If you’ve enjoyed playing on the arcade cabinet, then you’ll be pleased to see Fast & Furious Arcade Edition announced for consoles with a release date of October 24th, 2025. It’ll be available for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.
The Fast & Furious arcade game was developed by Raw Thrills (co-founded by gaming legend Eugene Jarvis, and also responsible for Cruis’n Blast, including the Switch release in 2021). But the console version due this year is being handled by Cradle Games, most known for action RPG Hellpoint. It’s published by GameMill, who also have Hot Wheels Let’s Race: Ultimate Speed launching on the same day.
Raw Thrills developed the first game based on the series, The Fast and the Furious in arcades back in 2004, with a Wii port without the movie license as Cruis’n in 2007, followed by The Fast and the Furious: Drift, and Fast & Furious Supercars in 2011.
It’s not clear why there’s no PC version currently planned for release, but console owners will be able to drive eight famous cars from the film series, including the obligatory Dodge Charger, plus a Corvette Z06, Shelby GT500 KR, Ford GT, Bronco DR, Jeep Wrangler, and two more. As an arcade title, you’ll be using drifting and nitro boosts, along with discovering destructible engironments, branching paths and shortcuts.
Along with single player, there’s a two-player local split-screen option, but no mention of any online racing. What might help the game last longer are various bonus challenges including stopping a missile in the Swiss Alps or grounding a plane in Hong Kong. Which are all suitable for a film franchise which went from street racing to saving the world.
If you haven’t kept up with the movie series, which originally began in 2001, the 11th, and potentially final instalment, Fast X: Part 2 was originally planned to release in 2025, but has since been delayed to April 2027 (not including the various spin-offs).
So if you’re a console owner who enjoys the Fast & Furious films, or classic arcade racing games very much in the style of Cruis’n etc, then it’ll be worth keeping an eye on Fast & Furious: Arcade Edition. Previous standalone Fast & Furious games have largely been disappointing (including Crossroads), although the licensed content for the Forza Horizon and Hot Wheels Unleashed series has tended to be better received.
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