[Update: Forza Horizon 4 launched today on Steam and there's a free car for all platforms. You can get the 2019 Porsche 911 GT3 RS if you sign into your Xbox profile before March 14 at 10:00 am Pacific.] Playground Games' crowd-favorite rac...

[Update: It'll be available tomorrow, seemingly for everyone who plays the game.] Forza Horizon players can rip around England with some futuristic flair. CD Projekt and Playground Games have collaborated to make the Cyberpunk 20...

Forza Horizon 4 is one of the best Xbox games in years and it just keeps getting better. Playground Games has supported it far beyond the treatment these games usually get -- that might be a pleasant byproduct of being an Xbox Game Pa...

The essence of a lot of the Forza Horizon experience is "Go fast, go as fast as possible." That's not always true for racing and its strategic braking and positioning. But, for speed traps, stunt jumps, drag races, etc? Yep, just go re...

Forza Horizon 3 is not long for this world. We're quickly approaching the four-year anniversary since it launched, and that's probably when it'll run out of gas -- at least for new buyers. Microsoft is delisting Forza Horizon 3 so...

The heavily-rumored Fable revival is happening, and if you're gonna close out the Xbox Games Showcase with a vague but pleasant enough teaser trailer, that's probably the property to end with. Forza Horizon studio Playground Games is worki...

[Update: One week after Eliminator launched, developer Playground Games has wildly altered the damage inflicted by the final circle. Before, it took 90 seconds to knock you out; now, it's about 4 seconds. Drastic correction, yes. But i...

Forza Horizon 4 is taking cars down a proverbially treacherous road, where a single wrong move spells doom and defeat. Playground Games is turning its racing sandbox into a battle royale. Dubbed "Eliminator," this battle royale cohere...

You know those Lexus December to Remember commercials where someone gets surprised with a luxury car, like it isn't insane to burden the family with a new car payment without consulting your significant other? Forza Horizon 4 is doing ...

As it turns out, a driver's license isn't the most important license when you're making a racing game. The licenses with all the individual car manufacturers to represent them in-game is far more important. When Forza Motorsport 7 and ...

Fortune Island signals a shift for Forza Horizon expansions. The add-ons for the previous game, Blizzard Mountain and Hot Wheels, created variation by fundamentally changing the experience of driving. The former put every car...

In today's episode, me and Associate Editor Peter Glagowski discuss the recent purchasing habits from Microsoft, which lately has included a number of notable game studios. From Obsidian Entertainment (the fine folks behind Fallout: New Ve...

Forza Horizon has long welcomed ridiculousness with open arms. How else could you describe a series that routinely launches sports cars off giant ramps? Forza Horizon 4 seems like it'll one-up itself with its first add-on. At Xbox...

So many of the most popular video game franchises have continually pushed their luck and eventually lost. "You can't have too much of a good thing" isn't a motto that applies to games. Not forever, at least. Sooner or later, everything runs...

When Forza Horizon 2 was announced as a freebie for "Games with Gold" this month, many people speculated that the game would be reaching its "End of Life" status. This happened two years prior to its predecessor, so it only made sense. Turn...

A ton of people are playing Forza. There was a 30 percent increase in players across the whole series last year, as 22 million people fired up one of the 10 currently-available games. More than 9 million people have played Forza Horizon 3, ...

It's not exactly obvious, but Microsoft has turned Forza into an annualized franchise. The reason it's obfuscated a bit is because the cycle goes Forza Motorsport then Forza Horizon then Forza Motorsport again. They're v...

On paper, Hot Wheels is a dream mashup for Forza Horizon. This is a series that has always reveled in the ridiculous, putting as much emphasis on stuff like stunt jumps as it does on technical racing. A Hot Wheels partnership seems like an ...

Forza Horizon is a series that has always been rooted in the vaguely possible. Forza Motorsport is the simulation-heavy style where cars do what cars would do. Horizon is where you suspend your disbelief just a little bit be...

Ever since its formation in 2010, Forza Horizon is all that Playground Games has ever known. Forza is an annualized series, but Microsoft takes turns between the dead serious Forza Motorsport and its open-world spinoff Forza Horiz...

You and me, Carter! We're racing for slips! And not the "now I own your car" kind of slips, but pink slips. The loser's fired and has to go work in some other corner of the industry! Wait, what? We can both review Forza Horizon 3? Oh, that ...