{"id":77947,"date":"2026-05-13T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77947"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:38:36","slug":"forza-horizon-6-unlock-times-global-launch-and-release-time-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77947","title":{"rendered":"Forza Horizon 6 Unlock Times: Global Launch And Release Time Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and developer Playground have announced the launch times for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/forza-horizon-6-release-date-trailer\/1100-6535015\/\">Forza Horizon 6<\/a>, confirming precisely when players will be able to start their engines.<\/p>\n<p>As announced previously, Forza Horizon 6 will launch first for people who pay more on May 15 before everyone can get in on May 19. The game releases at 12:01 AM local time, and that&#8217;s for both the PC version on Steam and the console edition for Xbox Series X|S. The game, which takes place in Japan, is coming to PS5, but not until later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>To play Forza Horizon 6 as soon as possible, you need to buy the game&#8217;s $120 Premium Edition or the $60 upgrade bundle. Forza Horizon 6 is included with Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, but that version does not release until May 19. However, Game Pass members who don&#8217;t want to wait can buy the Premium Edition upgrade to get started on May 15.<\/p>\n<p>Given that Forza Horizon 6 launches at 12:01 AM local time, people are wondering if the trick where you change your console&#8217;s settings to New Zealand will work for the racing game. Presumably it will, but that remains to be seen. For what it&#8217;s worth, Microsoft says <a href=\"https:\/\/support.xbox.com\/en-US\/help\/account-profile\/manage-account\/update-microsoft-account-country-region\">this<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft and developer Playground have announced the launch times for Forza Horizon 6, confirming precisely when players will be able to start their engines. As announced previously, Forza Horizon 6 will launch first for people who pay more on May 15 before everyone can get in on May 19. The game releases at 12:01 AM&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":77949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77947"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77950,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77947\/revisions\/77950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}