Tag Archives: Forza Horizon

Following its official announcement back during Tokyo Game Show 2025, Microsoft confirmed that we would be learning more about Forza Horizon 6 during the console maker’s upcoming Xbox Developer Direct. Set to go live on the 22nd of January, users have reported receiving a pop-up inside Forza Horizon 5 which seems to have leaked the release date for its sequel...

Following teasers late last year, Microsoft has officially announced their 2026 Xbox Developer Direct – featuring Fable, Forza Horizon 6 and more.

Microsoft has confirmed that they will be hosting an Xbox Developer Direct next month, including a better look at the upcoming Forza Horizon 6.

Despite only being officially announced a couple months ago, Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 6 is reportedly set to launch during the first half of 2026.

Earlier this year, Microsoft laid off a huge chunk of the Turn 10 studio, the one responsible for Forza Motorsport. With that in mind, we're expecting Forza Horizon to be the flagship racer for Xbox going forward, and the next game in the series may end up being the biggest …

This month, we learned that Microsoft had shut down several studios and cancelled a number of major projects. One of the studios hit the hardest was Turn 10, Microsoft's first-party studio responsible for the Forza Motorsport series of racing games. Forza Motorsport has apparently been cancelled for the foreseeable future, …

This week, Microsoft announced plans to let go of 9000 employees. Various studios within the Xbox unit were impacted, including Turn 10, which reportedly lost as much as half of its employees. Now, an ex employee has made the claim that Forza Motorsport has effectively been cancelled.  Former Turn 10 …

According to the former co-founder of Playground Games, Forza Horizon 5 has made more revenue than “Gran Turismo, F1, Need For Speed and The Crew put together.”

Forza Horizon 5 remains one of the few games today which publicly lists just how many players have tried the game out at any given time. Right ahead of the game’s launch on PS5, Horizon 5 was confirmed to have surpassed 45 million total players. Since the arrival of the game to PS5 mere days ago however, player counts have risen by almost 1 million.

Ahead of the official PS5 launch of Forza Horizon 5, the racing title has reached a new major milestone of over 45 million players.

Sega has already confirmed plans to bring back its classic driving game, Crazy Taxi. While the original game was primarily a single-player experience, Sega's reimagining will see a greater focus on multiplayer and open-world mechanics, taking inspiration from popular racers like Forza Horizon.  In a recent development update, the team …

Amazon Games has been signing some key partnerships recently with third-party developers. A couple of months on from agreeing to publish the next AAA Tomb Raider game from Crystal Dynamics, Amazon has now announced a new partnership with Maverick Games, a studio created by former Playground Games veterans, and yes, …

The Forza series is one of Xbox’s most prominent first-party franchises. The series often sees its Motorsport and Horizon sub franchises take turns to release its titles. While Microsoft already teased the next entry in the Motorsport series for the new generation of consoles, an industry insider has claimed that …

Relaxing over Christmas? Join Briony as she plays the latest Forza on PC

Over the last six years, Playground Games has been helping to keep Microsoft's first-party efforts afloat with the Forza Horizon series. These huge open world racers tend to be crowd pleasers, but Forza Horizon 4 looks to be the best entry yet. The new game arrives in October and will …