First Forza Horizon 6 image reveals Japan setting, for launch in 2026

Microsoft's adjacent Forza Horizon crippled is acceptable successful Japan, going by an Instagram advertisement that appears to person been posted up of reveal. The station has been taken down, but 1 of the internet's galore screen-grabbing Eyes of Sauron has preserved it for posterity. "The Horizon Festival is heading to Japan," it reads. I ideate that Japan is besides wherever Microsoft had planned to denote the crippled - they've doing a showcase astatine Tokyo Game Show 2025 successful astir an hour's time. Microsoft person antecedently indicated that the adjacent Forza volition motorboat successful 2026.

The past Forza Horizon crippled was acceptable successful Mexico. We called it "not the champion racing crippled ever made, but a contender for champion driving game". I similar this framing inasmuch arsenic I suck astatine racing, and americium overmuch much inclined to usage car games arsenic an excuse to bumble astir and analyse immoderate mostly alternatively eerie inheritance scenery. Forza Horizon 4 was acceptable successful a weirdly compressed and restitched amalgam of the UK. I retrieve visiting that game's mentation of the Yorkshire moors and reasoning "man, what person they been feeding the heather".

The wider Forza endeavor has fallen connected hard times successful the aftermath of Microsoft's astir caller circular of wide layoffs, aka "the enigma of success". Forza Motorsport bid creator Turn 10 person been hardest hit, reportedly losing astir fractional their staff. Turn 10 Studios contented co-ordinator Fred Russell posted backmost successful July that the workplace had "shuttered the Forza Motorsport space", with the remaining unit present focussing connected the improvement of Forza Horizon alongside Playground Games. In a societal media statement, Microsoft assured players that they "will proceed to enactment Forza Motorsport and Forza Horizon 5".

Microsoft executives person plentifulness of anxieties to quell astatine TGS this year. They besides spell into the amusement nether the unreality generated by their reported concern dealings with the Israeli military, arsenic it continues its bloody battle connected Gaza. A fig of first-party Xbox developers including 1 Playground staffer person signed the No Azure For Apartheid petition for Microsoft to divest from Israel's equipped forces.