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Forza Horizon 6 launches on PS5 on January 26, 2027, with Premium Edition early access from January 21, crossplay and cross-save with Xbox and Steam, and PlayStation Store pre-orders open now.
Microsoft is eliminating 268 roles across Xbox Game Studios and reorganising its studios: Activision takes Halo, Rare and World's Edge, Obsidian moves under Bethesda, and Playground and Turn 10 merge. Ninja Theory faces a proposed closure after two sale agreements collapsed.
Playground Games released an 18-minute narrated walkthrough of a full Fable quest at Gamescom 2026. The Mud and Death mission sends the Hero into a haunted mine with Heroes' Guild leader Humphry and demonstrates all three combat pillars - the two-handed Bower Hammer, seven spells including the chicken-transforming Befowl, and a bow-and-crossbow ranged layer with weak-point targeting. Fable still launches February 23, 2027 on Xbox Series X|S and PC.
Playground Games' Japan-set racer has blown past 6 million players in seven days, hitting 270,000+ concurrent on Steam and a 91 on OpenCritic. A PS5 version is still due later in 2026.
Xbox has delayed Fable, Playground Games' fantasy RPG reboot, from autumn 2026 to February 2027 so the game can have 'a window of its own' - a move that also steers it clear of Grand Theft Auto VI. Fable remains a day-one Game Pass title and launches on Xbox Series X|S, PS5 and PC.
Forza Horizon 6 launched worldwide on May 19 across Xbox Series X|S, PC, Cloud, and Game Pass. Playground Games' Japan-set racer arrives with a 92 Metacritic, 100 percent OpenCritic recommend rate, and the title of 2026's best-reviewed game already secured. The PS5 version still has no firm date beyond a fall 2026 window.
Forza Horizon 6 hit a peak of 172,093 concurrent Steam players during its $120 Premium Edition advanced access, more than doubling Forza Horizon 5's all-time peak of 81,096 before the worldwide launch even arrives on May 19.
Playground Games' launch trailer landed overnight, exactly one week before May 15 Premium Edition early access and 11 days before the May 19 wide launch. The 90-second cut sneaks in two easter eggs the Forza community has already pulled apart frame-by-frame: a Ken Block Gymkhana NINE drift recreation at 0:48, and an Initial D Mount Akina face-off between a white-and-black AE86 and an FD3S RX-7 at 0:58.
Forza Horizon 6's pre-load is live at 134.86 GB on Xbox and 146.4 GB on PC — the largest Horizon install ever — as the game claims #1 on Steam's May wishlist with 500K pre-orders booked ahead of its May 19 launch.
Forza Horizon 6 launches May 19 on Xbox Series X|S and PC, and Playground Games has used the final stretch to detail Tokyo City, the Snowy Alps, the new 540-degree steering model, the Bracelet progression system, and seamless races. Here's the full breakdown of what's confirmed two weeks out.