US EditionForza Motorsport 'Team Is No More,' Former Developer Claims, With Remaining Turn 10 Staff Left 'To Support the Horizon Side'
MICROSOFT XBOX DIVISION, JUL 4 – Microsoft cut nearly 50% of Turn 10 Studios' staff amid restructuring, ending Forza Motorsport development while shifting focus to the more successful Forza Horizon series.
- In a Facebook post, former Turn 10 Studios content coordinator Fred Russell announced the Forza Motorsport team has been shuttered and is no more following recent Xbox layoffs.
- Following Microsoft's announcement of 9,000 job cuts this week, nearly 50% of Turn 10 Studios' staff were laid off as part of a broader restructuring, impacting the future of Forza Motorsport.
- Insider sources report that up to 50% of Turn 10 Studios staff, around 70 employees, have been laid off, effectively disbanding the Forza Motorsport team.
- Remaining Turn 10 staff will support Forza Horizon, with a new game teased for 2026, reflecting a strategic shift after Motorsport's shutdown.
- In the larger Xbox strategy, Horizon's success prompts Turn 10's support shift, with Motorsport's future uncertain as Horizon outperforms it and a new Horizon game is planned for 2026.
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Forza Motorsport 'Team Is No More,' Former Developer Claims, With Remaining Turn 10 Staff Left 'To Support the Horizon Side'
Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios has been heavily impacted by this week's brutal Microsoft layoffs, former employees have claimed, resulting in Xbox's sim racing series being wound down.
Forza Motorsport is "no more" after Microsoft layoffs
Forza Horizon remains intact. Forza Motorsport is “no more” following Microsoft’s latest round of Xbox layoffs, according to a former employee at developer Turn 10. “Turn 10 Studios has shuttered the Forza Motorsport space and the team is no more,” former content coordinator Fred Russell wrote on Facebook. “A very sad day for one of the best car racing video games. I loved my time there.” As spotted by IGN, fellow former Turn 10 employee Chris H…
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It seems that only the spinoff of the franchise, which began twenty years ago, will survive — and that sounds downright bizarre. It was Eurogamer that first reported on a Facebook post by Fred Russell, a former content coordinator for the Forza series. According to Russell, Microsoft’s recent sweeping layoffs effectively killed off the Forza Motorsport series, while the Horizon spinoff will carry on. Although Russell left Turn 10 Studios back …
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