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The official Forza Motorsport account has issued an announcement to the group relating to the continued help for each Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5, saying that builders Flip 10 and Playground Video games will “proceed to help” their current titles.
Pricey Forza Group, we all know a lot of you might have questions on what’s subsequent for the Forza franchise, and we respect the help of our unimaginable group. We needed to guarantee gamers that Flip 10 and Playground Video games will proceed to help Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon… pic.twitter.com/0PPLgo44aP
— Forza Motorsport (@ForzaMotorsport) August 7, 2025
If it looks as if a little bit of a no brainer {that a} studio would help its personal, most up-to-date video games, it sadly wasn’t. This assertion comes precisely a month after experiences that Flip 10 was gutted throughout an enormous layoff throughout Microsoft. Preliminary rumors advised round 50% of Flip 10 workers had been reduce on the time, however later experiences indicated that much more had been impacted, doubtlessly all or many of the studio. One former worker stated that the studio was nonetheless open to supporting Horizon, however that the Motorsport facet had been totally closed down.
Xbox has but to make any sort of assertion by some means as to what occurred to Flip 10, what is going on on at Playground, or who precisely of these studios is the one posting on Twitter/X saying it is going to proceed to help each video games. Notably too, the put up does not say something about future sport improvement. Forza Motorsport is at the moment simply two years previous, however Forza Horizon 5 got here out in 2021 and followers are feeling about due for an additional entry. It is unclear whether or not or not they will get one, whether or not Motorsport will ever see one other entry, or if the 2 Forza groups have been whittled down to mere help on current video games till they cannot any longer.
This put up additionally comes alongside updates to a couple of different Xbox-supported video games. We discovered as we speak that Xbox canceled Avalanche Studios-developed Contraband, however we additionally discovered that Hideo Kojima’s OD continues to be being labored on. Everwild and Good Darkish had been each revealed to be canceled one month in the past, throughout the layoffs.
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