Medal Of Honor's always looked poised to make a return in 2012.

We know it's hard to believe, but there's going to be new entries in the popular Medal Of Honor and Need For Speed franchises. Shocking, huh?

The news was accidentally outed by UK retailer GAME this morning, when it said in a hastily deleted Tweet: “EA presentation was great, had mentions of a new Medal of Honor and Need for Speed 13. EA have an exciting year ahead.” Yeah, GAME's going to have a pretty awkward meeting with EA executives this afternoon.

To be honest, it's not the first we've heard of a new Medal Of Honor. A teaser for the game popped up inside all copies of Battlefield 3, and developer Danger Close confirmed the game's existence about a year ago. As for Need For Speed — well of course there's a new Need For Speed in development; there's been one every year since before time began (sort of). The big news is that Criterion Games is almost certainly going to be the developer. And no one does arcade racers quite like Criterion Games.