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Playground Games Hires New Talent for Open-World Action RPG
Playground Games hires GTA V, Metal Gear Solid and Hellblade devs for open-world action RPG Forza Horizon developer also secures new 200-person studio, which will bring headcount up to 400. Key talent has been brought into the fold at Playground Games as the firm ramps up efforts on its first ever non-racing project. GamesIndustry.biz revealed the developer behind Forza Horizon was planning to open a second studio earlier this year, and that the new team will be working on a non-racing game – now described to us as an “open-world action RPG.” The newest addition to this project is Sean Eyestone, who takes on the role of production director and leaves his role as senior producer at Battlefront II developer EA DICE. Prior to this, he spent ten years working at Kojima Produc...
Forza Horizon 3 Studio Working On A New Non-Racing Game
Playground Games, the studio behind Forza Horizon 3 is opening a new branch to work on their next project, which is a non-racing game. Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz in an interview, founder Ralphn Fulton said that the new branch will open in Leamington Spa in England, and will offer the company an opportunity to test their mettle in different genres. Playground Games was established in 2010, and since then has worked on all the three Forza Horizon games, establishing quite a reputation when it comes to racing games. According to Fulton, the studio now wants to try their skills at something new. “We feel like we’ve become pretty good at racing games over the years,” he said. “We can always get better, we can always strive to get better but we’d love to prove ou...
Forza Horizon 2 will let you Race against a Steam Train!
Forza Horizon 2 may contain all sorts of lovely dynamic weather effects and run at 1080p, but that’s small change compared to the fact you can race against a Steam Train in the game. Yes. A train. The ability to race a locomotive comes into play during ‘showcase races’ which is the racer’s version of challenge races. In short, for this particular instance, players will need to get to the finish before the Steam Train. There’s also a video posted below, which shows off loads of speed in an interesting mix of weather patterns off the coast of Italy. Froza Horizon 2 is out on September 30 for Xbox 360 and Xbox One, and according to developer Playground Games, the racer doesn’t contain lobbies and players can form their own clubs with up to 1,000 players. Source : VG247