We’re just under two months away from setting foot in Japan in Forza Horizon 6. Set to launch on May 19, the series finally takes place in the most requested location by the community at-large, and excitement is unquestionably at an all-time high.
IGN has launched its month-long exclusive coverage of Forza Horizon 6 with nine minutes of uncut gameplay footage, providing the first look at Playground Games’ Japan-set open-world racer. The footage is accompanied by a developer discussion featuring IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey and Luke Reilly, who visited Playground Games for hands-on access and interviews.
It’s been just over a month since Playground Games gave us our first real look at Forza Horizon 6, where we learned the Horizon Festival is heading to Japan. While that initial reveal gave us a taste of the map, the cars, and the May 19 release date, it left many wondering: how exactly will the career mode work?
Playground Games has given us a first look at Forza Horizon 6 in a special Developer Direct stream, confirming the May 19 launch date as well as a range of new features coming to the title.
We’ve potentially got a launch date for the next game in the Forza Horizon series, with a date in May purportedly confirmed for Forza Horizon 6 via a popup in Forza Horizon 5.
The official Forza website has confirmed what we all-but knew already in its year-end round-up for the franchise: Forza Motorsport is just about dead, with no more updates planned for the title.
The very worst-kept secret in all of the racing game sphere has now emerged into the public domain: Forza Horizon 6 is coming in 2026, and will be set in Japan.
The official social media channels for Forza Motorsport have broken the long silence over the past five weeks to confirm that developer Turn 10 will continue to support the title over the coming months — though what’s in store beyond that remains a mystery.
Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has lost almost half its staff in one fell swoop, according to industry reports, amid a wide-ranging reduction in staff numbers across Xbox’s various subsidiaries.
Fans hoping to catch a first glimpse of Forza Horizon 6 were ultimately left disappointed in today’s Xbox Games Showcase, but there was a nugget of Forza franchise news as “the next Forza” was confirmed for 2026.
May marks a very special time for Forza Motorsport in 2025. Turn 10 is rolling out Update 20 for all console and PC players, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the Forza Motorsport franchise.
Turn 10 has revealed that it will be bringing back the Fujimi Kaido course to Forza Motorsport, to mark the upcoming 20th anniversary of the Forza franchise.
Achievement- and Trophy-tracking outlet TrueAchievements has revealed the details of the new Achievements to be added in the upcoming “Horizon Realms” update for Forza Horizon 5, as well as the first ever list of PlayStation Trophies for a Forza title.
Barely a month after revealing that Forza Horizon 5 would be the first racing game to make the jump from being Xbox exclusive onto the PlayStation, Microsoft has announced the official launch date: Tuesday April 29.