Tag Archives: Playground Games

While Fable ended up not being a huge part of the recent Xbox showcase, Playground Games has quickly made up for that with a 30 minute gameplay preview. 

Microsoft and Playground Games have confirmed that the Fable reboot will launch on the 23rd of February. On top of that, the latest look at the game also brought around news of the first story expansion, titled Order of the Hero.  In the Fable reboot, players will start off as …

Maverick Games (formed of ex-Forza devs) are gearing up to officially unveil their new racing IP next week on the 2nd of June.

Forza Horizon 6 is having an excellent launch period, with the open-world racer breaking Microsoft records with over 300k concurrent players on Steam alone.

Ahead of its expected arrival in Autumn, Playground Games’ Fable reboot has now been officially rated in multiple different regions.

Just days on from its full, wide release, Playground Games’ Forza Horizon 6 has already exceeded 6 million total players.

Forza Horizon 6 is already off to an excellent start, with the open-world racer amassing over 1.4 million players during its Advanced Access period.

Earlier this week, Forza Horizon 6 fully leaked, allowing pirates to download the unencrypted game files and even access online services before release. Now, Playground Games is handing out lengthy bans for anyone accessing the game early. In a statement released online after players reported lengthy ban periods, Playground Games …

Celebrating the site’s 20th anniversary, the Forza Team have announced that their 'Forza Forums' will be officially shutting down permanently next month.

Playground Games has announced that Forza Horizon 6 has officially gone gold, confirming the final version is ready ahead of its May 19th launch. The developer also detailed platform-specific performance targets, storage requirements, and an expanded soundtrack featuring nine radio stations for the game's Japan setting. Xbox Series X and …

Ahead of the arrival of Forza Horizon 6, co-developer Virtuous officially confirmed that Horizon 5 has sold over 5 million copies on PS5.

Initially set to launch sometime in Autumn 2026, industry insiders have claimed that Playground Games’ Fable could be delayed – possibly to 2027.

As part of their latest deep-dive, Playground Games have detailed all of the many improvements coming to Forza Horizon 6’s vehicle customisation.

While the PS5 SKU of Forza Horizon 6 won’t be released until after all other versions, players will be able to benefit from cross-play and cross-saves.

We have known about the Fable reboot being developed by Playground Games since 2018, when Eurogamer leaked early details of the project. As it turns out, Playground actually began its journey towards becoming a multi-project and multi-genre studio a couple of years earlier, following the success of Forza Horizon 3.

Forza Horizon 6 is officially launching on Xbox and PC on the 19th of May, with a PS5 version scheduled to release later this year.

During the Xbox Direct, Playground Games offered a deep dive into the upcoming Fable reboot, confirming that the game will arrive later this year in Autumn.

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...

Ahead of the upcoming Xbox Direct, insiders have claimed that Fable is planned to launch day-and-date on PS5 – though Forza Horizon 6 won’t.

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.

Following on from a leak earlier this month, Playground Games has officially confirmed Forza Horizon 6. The game was revealed at the Tokyo Game Show 2025, an apt venue for the announcement, as Forza Horizon 6 will take players to the streets of Japan. 

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, …

Despite launching weeks later, Forza Horizon 5 has already outsold Assassin’s Creed Shadows on PS5 – currently sitting at 2.2 million copies sold.

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.

Playground Games has now detailed the PS5 version of Forza Horizon 5, with the Pro console getting ray-tracing on track among other enhancements.

We've known about Microsoft's long-awaited Fable reboot since 2017. Fans were pleased to see the game listed on the release schedule for 2025 but now, just two months into the year, Xbox has revised its plans, pushing the game back to 2026. 

While the rumoured release of Forza Horizon 5 for PS5 has yet to materialise, the game is reportedly still set to come to Sony’s console.