Forza Developer Reassures Fans That Motorsport, Horizon 5 Will Continue to Receive Support After Staff Cuts

The authoritative Forza Motorsport relationship has issued a connection to the assemblage regarding the ongoing enactment for some Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5, saying that developers Turn 10 and Playground Games volition "continue to support" their existing titles.

Dear Forza Community, we cognize galore of you person questions astir what’s adjacent for the Forza franchise, and we admit the enactment of our unthinkable community. We wanted to guarantee players that Turn 10 and Playground Games volition proceed to enactment Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon… pic.twitter.com/0PPLgo44aP

If it seems similar a spot of a no-brainer that a workplace would enactment its own, astir caller games, it unluckily wasn't. This connection comes precisely a period aft reports that Turn 10 was gutted during a monolithic layoff crossed Microsoft. Initial rumors suggested astir 50% of Turn 10 unit were chopped astatine the time, but aboriginal reports indicated that adjacent much were impacted, perchance each oregon astir of the studio. One erstwhile worker said that the workplace was inactive unfastened to supporting Horizon, but that the Motorsport broadside had been afloat closed down.

Xbox has yet to marque immoderate benignant of connection 1 mode oregon the different arsenic to what happened to Turn 10, what's going connected astatine Playground, oregon who precisely of those studios is the 1 posting connected Twitter/X saying it volition proceed to enactment some games. Notably too, the station doesn't accidental thing astir aboriginal crippled development. Forza Motorsport is presently conscionable 2 years old, but Forza Horizon 5 came retired successful 2021 and fans are feeling astir owed for different entry. It's unclear whether oregon not they'll get one, whether Motorsport volition ever spot different entry, oregon if the 2 Forza teams person been whittled down to specified enactment connected existing games until they can't immoderate longer.

This station besides comes alongside updates to a fewer different Xbox-supported games. We learned contiguous that Xbox canceled Avalanche Studios-developed Contraband, but we besides learned that Hideo Kojima's OD is inactive being worked on. Everwild and Perfect Dark were some revealed to beryllium canceled 1 period ago, during the layoffs.

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