It is perhaps the top of an period for racing followers. Microsoft has allegedly slashed the employees at Flip 10 Studios, the developer behind the Forza Motorsport online game franchise. It’s unclear how many individuals the studio laid off, however stories point out that just about half the employees has been let go.

The Verge is reporting that round 70 folks have been fired, and it’s unclear how it will have an effect on future installments of the Forza Motorsport franchise. The studio launched the franchise’s newest installment in 2023, merely named Forza Motorsport, for the Xbox Collection X/S and PC. It garnered tepid opinions, with some disliking components of the sport’s newer components, just like the RPG-style development system, which the studio tried to handle. 

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Nonetheless, avid gamers have usually loved the Motorsport franchise. Early examples of the sport earned Metacritic scores within the low 90s; nonetheless, the scores started to falter with the discharge of Forza Motorsport 5.

Forza Motorsport (2023) was the eighth installment within the collection. The franchise launched in 2005 as Xbox’s response to PlayStation’s Gran Turismo. Microsoft would broaden the Forza franchise with the launch of Forza Horizon, an arcade-style open-world different that emphasised the motoring way of life greater than excellent lap instances at iconic tracks.

The layoffs at Flip 10 have been half of a bigger culling all through Microsoft’s numerous divisions. There are not any stories that the tech large laid off anybody on the studio behind the Horizon franchise, England’s Playground Video games, which can be obtainable on the PlayStation. 

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