Forza Series

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Turn 10’s Forza Motorsport 6 has picked up another series, in addition to the entire Formula E grid that was announced at the beginning of summer: the ever-popular V8 Supercar series from Australia. Today, straight from the official series website, the ten cars that will be present in the game come launch day were detailed, with cars from each of the five current manufacturers. With Mount Panorama returning from Forza 5, players will be able to live out the series in ways that haven’t been possible before on a console racer.

Gamescom officially opens tomorrow, but Microsoft had a briefing today in preparation, touching on a large swath of its upcoming 2015/2016 lineup. Being just over a month away from release, Forza Motorsport 6 naturally has a display on site, with a community-designed livery wrapped around Ford’s new Focus RS complete with its own Stig standing guard.

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Another week, another batch of cars announced for Forza Motorsport 6 en route to its September 15th release. This time, Turn 10 has focused on one of the standout marques in automotive history, with at least one car from each decade between 1940 and today. Before we get into those, though, let’s take a moment to focus on the new track reveal. Lime Rock is a new track to the series, a tight, rolling 1.5 mile ribbon in New England. It’s brutally narrow, with blind turns, downhill braking zones, and off-camber turns mixed in for good measure. It will be quite a handful for some of the quicker cars in the game.

Hot on the heels of Wednesday’s FM6 Garage reveal, Turn 10 has announced a free two-car bonus pack for their current game. While the ten car Porsche pack from last month cost users money, this pack is free. The catch? You only have until next Friday, July 24th, to download it (through the One’s Forza Hub app). After that the pack won’t be available for download, but the cars will stay in your garage.

Last week, Turn 10 began its weekly Garage reveal, announcing the entire Formula E grid as well as 30 other cars, bringing the total of announced vehicles for the upcoming game to 174. This week, the slow tease is continued.

Additional content continues to make way to the 2014 open world racer and this month is no exception as tomorrow Forza Horizon 2 is set to receive an additional 6 cars; 5 of which are included in the IGN Car Pack, with the final being available to all players for free. Available tomorrow through Xbox Marketplace and the Forza Hub app, the car pack will cost $5.

At this year’s E3, Turn 10 revealed 117 of the more than 450 cars available at launch in the upcoming Forza Motorsport 6. Beginning today and leading up to the launch of the game on September 15th, Turn 10 will be revealing more details not only regarding the game’s car roster but additional information on the new tracks being introduced for the first time in the series in what is being dubbed as “The Forza Garage”.

In celebration of Forza’s 10th anniversary this year, Microsoft have announced a special edition of the Xbox One: the “Forza Motorsport 6 Limited Edition” console. As explained in the video above, it’ll feature a special blue color, inspired by the new game’s cover car, the Ford GT.

Since the Forza Motorsport 6 announcements at Microsoft’s E3 press conference landed earlier today, a lot more information about the new game has hit the web. One of the most interesting sources is a lengthy article from Ars Technica, who had a chance to visit Turn 10’s studios last week for an exclusive interview with Dan Greenawalt and other developers on the team.

Turn 10’s Forza Motorsport 6 was first announced at the Detroit Auto Show back in January, where it was revealed with the all-new Ford GT that will be gracing the game’s cover. Today, Forza 6’s first official trailer was revealed during Microsoft’s press conference at E3 along with a few more tidbits of information.