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While Forza Motorsport fans eagerly anticipate the seemingly game-changing Update 6, Forza Horizon 5 continues its assortment of wacky hijinks by introducing dinosaurs into its roster of usable assets. The game’s major Eurotrip update is, therefore, particularly eclectic, and bound to thrill players this way or the other. Notably, the Horizon Festival is now being overtaken by a fleet of European vehicles, from top-tier Bentleys to classic AMG Hammer wagons, and they’re being joined by lovingly recreated dinosaur props.…

Early this year, Turn 10 promised to improve Forza Motorsport in three key areas, one of which was its controversial car progression system. Less than a month later, the car progression revamp was outlined, but the studio also noted that it wouldn’t be released until Update 6 hits. In the interim, we just received Forza Motorsport‘s Update 5, and though it has introduced the long-anticipated Nürburgring Nordschleife track, the simple fact that there’s no car progression revamp makes this release feel somewhat deflating.…

While the most topical discussions about the Forza franchise at large usually have something to do with the latest game’s many fumbles and stumbles, now’s the time to take a look at something different. Did you know that the Forza community maintains a humongous list of real-world car paint specifications? Indeed, there’s a small, but extremely dedicated community of Forza players that’s spent hundreds, if not thousands of hours meticulously recreating real-world car paint swatches for virtual use. It’s widely accepted…

Forza Motorsport‘s Update 6 – due to release in March 2024 – is shaping up to be a huge step forward for the live-service racing game from Turn 10. Notably, the developer has just revealed that the game’s entire Car Level progression mechanic will be getting upended in accordance with player feedback. Notably, Turn 10 has gone back to the drawing board with Forza Motorsport‘s Car Level mechanic, as promised earlier this year. From the very start, a vocal portion of the player base has been highly critical of Turn 10’s…

While there’s certainly something to be said about Turn 10’s overreliance on temporary, live-service content in Forza Motorsport, the studio has been adding lots to the game post-release. All-new tracks are usually the highlights of their respective updates, and Update 5’s Nürburgring Nordschleife will be no different. Slated for release sometime around mid-February, Forza Motorsport‘s Update 5 seems to be positively loaded with fixes and improvements. Important as they may be, these fixes aren’t nearly as exciting as…

Everyone knows by now that Forza Motorsport launched in a less-than-stellar state in October last year. Developer Turn 10 has since pulled up its sleeves in the interim, delivering a series of solid updates over the last few months, but the best is yet to come. At the very least, that’s what Turn 10 itself claims in its latest development roundup. The studio is planning major revisions to three areas of Forza Motorsport‘s gameplay: the car progression system, AI, and race regulations. These should be getting revamped “in…

While much has been said about the Forza franchise’s peculiar approach to fear of missing out, Forza Horizon 5 is not about to let go of its entire seasonal content model. It’s good, then, that the new season is here to stave FOMO off, even if only by a bit. More specifically, Playground Games held a poll among Forza Horizon 5 players a few months back, allowing them to vote on which timed exclusive vehicles ought to return in early 2024. With the votes counted and accounted for, Playground has now announced the full…

Digital Trends This was a year of low lows and high highs for Xbox. On one hand, Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard acquisition faced a whole lot of scrutiny and Bethesda’s Redfall was a bust. On the other, Xbox Game Studios finally started to release first-party games more consistently in 2023, some long-awaited games finally released, and the Activision Blizzard deal eventually went through. Microsoft now looks to keep that momentum going into 2024 as it integrates the Call of Duty publisher into its organization…

Following its fairly problematic release, Forza Motorsport has slowly but surely started turning things around at the rate of a first-generation Bugatti Veyron, as it were. While the new updates have been adding lots of content, it just so happens that much of it is temporary, at best. More specifically, even though the developer Turn 10 has been hard at work producing new events and adding them to Forza Motorsport‘s roster of available content, none of them are going to be permanently available as part of the…

Turn 10 has just announced its plans for Forza Motorsport‘s Updates 3 and 4, with Update 3 already jotted for release on December 12. Its highlight feature? The iconic Hockenheim race track, featuring three unique track layouts and a whole suite of new vehicles to test on it. Even though Forza Motorsport launched with a huge array of problems, especially on PC, the developer Turn 10 seems to be juggling both game fixes and the introduction of all-new content fairly well. The game’s first post-launch track, Yas Marina,…