Leading creators of Forza Horizon have created a new studio

The development of future parts of the Forza Horizon series will be led by other people. The main faces of these races left Playground Gameswork together on new projects in a newly established studio Maverick Games.

New UK studio leads Mike Brown. Senior Producer Joins Forza Horizon 5 Creative Director Tom ButcherTechnical Director Matt Craventechnical art director Gareth Harwoodsound engineer Fraser Stachan and art director Ben Penrose.

In total, Maverick Games employs 10 people who work on addictive super high quality premium game. The project is installed in open world and is due out on PC and unspecified consoles.

It looks like they can work quietly because they have secured significant financial resources. This will allow them to build a home that will support the creativity of all employees, their creativity and willingness to take risks.

It looks like Maverick Games wants to approach development from a slightly different perspective and they want to come up with something new and innovative. But first they have to hit the target and grow to 140 employees.

The reason developers are leaving Playground Games remains a mystery. Playground Games Studio was founded in 2010 and has only one brand behind it – the Forza Horizon series. However, a whiff of change is coming, as Xbox Game Studios CEO Matt Booty noticed the attention to detail these people have in creating game worlds in Forza Horizon games, and decided to entrust them with another installment from an equally well-known brand. Fable.

He went on to mention that these developers share a passion and understanding of what makes Fable so unique, and he concluded by saying that he has no doubt that the resulting product will be of high quality.

What do you think the Fable role-playing game from the creators of the racing series will turn out to be, and what new people will come up with who have taken the reins of Maverick Games and are overwhelmed with ambition?