Forza Motorsport 'Team Is No More,' Former Developer Claims, With Remaining Turn 10 Staff Left 'To Support the Horizon Side'

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.

Has Forza Motorsport Been Axed in the Big Cuts at Microsoft?

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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Developer Fred Russell left the studio in 2016, but presumably still has connections at Turn 10.