Jessey wrote:Microsoft France is on the roll this weekend! First we had the leaked teaser “trailer” for Forza Horizon, then this morning Microsoft confirmed that the trailer is real, and we’ll receive more information. Well, Microsoft has another Forza-related announcement for you today! Fans of Forza Motorsport will be happy to know that Forza Motorsport 5 will be coming in 2013 as stated by Sebull of Microsoft France. Sebull has also elaborated upon something that fans may have wondered. The recently unveiled Forza Horizon is and Forza Motorsport are “two different games” that are split between two development teams; Playground and Turn10 respectively. Motorsport will remain on an “every-two-years release schedule” as it has since the beginning of the franchise.
By handing the development of Horizon to Playground–a developer composed of talents from a range of studios: TOCA, GRID, Codemasters–it seems that Microsoft aims to have a new Forza title released every year, without making the sacrifices that are commonly seen in yearly franchises handled by one developer. In regards to the Horizon “trailer”, Sebull reassured fans that “this is not a game trailer” but instead a “simple video showing the FH universe and there is not much to see.”
Microsoft’s handling of the Forza franchise has been quite smart thus far. Providing fans with a game every year, while still retaining the quality that Forza is known for will prove to be great for longtime fans of the series that might have been worried about Forza’s yearly status. Horizon will be officially unveiled tomorrow during GDC 2012, until then, game one!
http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1646321/fo ... forza.html
David Lynch wrote:Turn 10 has begun hiring for the 'next Forza', but is that Forza 5 or a next gen version of Microsoft's motorsport sim?
Published on Oct 23, 2012
Turn 10 Studios has begun hiring for what it is calling the ‘next version of Forza Motorsport’, according to job listings appearing on Microsoft's website.
With Turn 10 hiring for new positions, it’s unclear (and at no point stated in the jobs listing) if this ‘next version of Forza’ is indeed Forza 5, or even a next-gen Forza.
With Playground Games releasing Forza Horizion, and potentially entering Microsoft’s motorsport series into a cyclical cycle with Turn 10, we could see Forza enter into an annual release schedule.
The jobs advertised on Microsoft’s website are:
Software Development
Engineer Lead
Vehicle Artist
Software Development Engineer
At no point do the job descriptions explain whether the Forza series is moving onto next-gen development, too, but they do explain that Turn 10 and Microsoft are keen to help grow the Forza brand ‘into the top automotive entertainment brand in the world’.
With the Xbox 720 still rumoured for release late next year, does this ramping up of staff infer that Turn 10 is scheduling a Forza launch game to release alongside Microsoft’s new machine?
