{"id":182669,"date":"2023-01-10T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/several-forza-horizon-developers-leave-playground-games-and-xbox-to-form-new-studio\/"},"modified":"2023-01-10T14:45:59","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:45:59","slug":"several-forza-horizon-developers-leave-playground-games-and-xbox-to-form-new-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/several-forza-horizon-developers-leave-playground-games-and-xbox-to-form-new-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"Several Forza Horizon Developers Leave Playground Games and Xbox to Form New Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
Several developers from Xbox’s Forza Horizon developer Playground Games have left the company to form a new studio, Maverick Games.<\/p>\n
As reported by Eurogamer, former Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown will lead the new studio and is joined by five other former Playground employees. The development team is at work on a “premium open world game for consoles and PC” and has already secured “significant seed funding”.<\/p>\n
The other developers making the jump to Maverick Games include Playground’s lead producer Tom Butcher, technical director Matt Craven, technical art director Gareth Harwood, audio director Fraser Stachan, and art director Ben Penrose.<\/p>\n