{"id":89949,"date":"2026-09-22T11:25:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89949"},"modified":"2026-09-22T12:36:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:36:58","slug":"xboxs-forza-studios-have-been-tag-teaming-for-years-now-theyre-becoming-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=89949","title":{"rendered":"Xbox\u2019s Forza Studios Have Been Tag-Teaming For Years. Now They\u2019re Becoming One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Big changes are afoot at Microsoft, as the company announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/all-the-major-xbox-changes-microsoft-announced-today-layoffs-halo-changing-hands-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massive reorganization of its Xbox gaming division<\/a>. While <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/halo-next-game-is-coming-from-an-unexpected-developer-activision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Activision and Bethesda will expand their remit<\/a>, adding several studios\u00a0to their portfolio, Forza series developers Playground and Turn 10 won&#8217;t be included in the consolidation. Instead, the two developers are joining forces, merging into one developer after years of tag-teaming on games like Forza Horizon and Fable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These two studios have been creative and franchise partners for over a decade, and today\u2019s changes will formally move their work into one team,&#8221; Xbox chief creative officer Matt Booty wrote in a letter to employees. What the letter doesn&#8217;t precisely mention is if there&#8217;ll be layoffs at these studios, but we do know that 268 positions at Xbox are being made redundant as part of a previously announced second wave of job cuts. Mergers typically see several roles overlap, so it won&#8217;t be too surprising to see people let go from both studios as they start the process of becoming a single team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Playground Games has a storied career, having developed the first Forza Horizon game, released in 2012. Since then, the studio has developed each entry in the franchise, which slowly overtook<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big changes are afoot at Microsoft, as the company announced a massive reorganization of its Xbox gaming division. While Activision and Bethesda will expand their remit, adding several studios\u00a0to their portfolio, Forza series developers Playground and Turn 10 won&#8217;t be included in the consolidation. Instead, the two developers are joining forces, merging into one developer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":89951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89949"}],"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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89952,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89949\/revisions\/89952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}