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Perhaps Halo and Gears of War aren't too far behind after all.

Xbox made a somewhat surprising announcement in the early afternoon hours on January 30. The racing franchise best associated with the Xbox brand, Forza, is coming to PlayStation 5. This all begins this spring when Forza Horizon 5 releases on PlayStation 5. Forza Horizon 5's PS5 port is being handled by Panic Button with help from Turn 10 Studios and Playground Games.

The PlayStation 5 release of Forza Horizon...

The new expansion arrives on March 29.

Playground Games announced that the second major expansion for Forza Horizon 5 will focus on a new rally career mode. The reveal of Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure comes to us via the Forza YouTube channel courtesy of a new reveal stream showing off some gameplay and new features.

This expansion will include a full rally career mode for players to engage with. Playground also hints at some of the new customization options coming...

These Game Ready drivers were made for Modern Warfare 2.

Nvidia released new drivers today for their graphics cards. These new 526.86 drivers are "Game Ready" for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Nvidia says that these drivers offer "improved stability, solves image corruption issues, and supports Nvidia DLSS Super Resolution and Nvidia Reflex" in Modern Warfare 2.

Not only that, but these drivers fix a number of outstanding issues that have been plaguing...

This first expansion arrives in July.

The Forza franchise and Hot Wheels have a rather long history of working together. Forza Horizon 3 had its own Hot Wheels themed expansion. A number of Hot Wheels cars appeared in Forza Horizon 4. Now, Forza Horizon 5 and Hot Wheels will once again team up with another new Hot Wheels themed expansion.

Players will get to race along some of the "fastest, most extreme tracks ever devised." In addition, players will be able...

Valve has revealed the community-voted picks for the best games of 2021.

It's almost time for the Steam Winter Sale to come to an end. You have just two days remaining to save a lot of money on what can be described as a "metric buttload" of video games. This also means it's time to see who won in each category for the 2021 Steam Awards.

Remember that each category had titles that were selected by the Steam community in November 2021. You were able to vote on...

A complete list of all of the winners from TGAs.

The Game Awards 2021 were held this past Thursday. If you missed some or all of it, I can't blame you. The show, including pre-show, came near the four-hour mark. It featured a bunch of new trailers for games, TV shows, and movies. It included some musical performances that I largely zoned out on while they were going on. It also featured some awards here and there.

It also featured a lot of Geoff Keighley. One of the first...

The latest open world racing game sets records for Microsoft and Xbox Game Pass.

Forza Horizon 5 came out on November 8th to a ton of praise from critics and players alike. It's a fantastic game and it's proving to be a very popular one at that. It should come as no surprise then to hear that Forza Horizon 5 is the biggest launch in Xbox history. So far, over 10 million players have logged in to the game to race around the vast areas of Mexico.

The game has seen a substantial...

Just don't expect to see any new games.

Courtesy of the Xbox Wire, Microsoft announced that they will hold a special Xbox Anniversary Celebration on November 15 at 1PM (ET). This event will celebrate 20 years of the Xbox brand being around. It's not really clear what Microsoft will show during this event, but we do know that they won't be showing off any new games at least.

The company says specifically that "we won't show any new games." Just so we're totally...

Is your PC ready to race around Mexico?

Turn 10 Studios just announced the various hardware you will need to run Forza Horizon 5 on the PC. They offer up some minimum system requirements, recommended specs, and something they're calling "ideal specs." Sadly, Turn 10 did not specify what resolution and framerate they were targeting with any of these tiers, so... that sucks.

In addition to the specs, seen below, Turn 10 also talks a little bit about some of the...

Eight minutes of gameplay plus cover cars revealed.

Playground Games and Microsoft offered racing fans a fresh look at Forza Horizon 5 today during their Gamescom Xbox stream. However, let's just get the cover cars out of the way right now. The cars that will be showcased on the cover of the game are the Mercedes-AMG ONE and the 2021 Ford Bronco Badlands.

Now that the boring stuff is out of the way, let's focus on the new gameplay footage that was shown off. This new footage...

Where do you want to drive today?

Developer Playground Games has just revealed the full map for their upcoming open-world racing game, Forza Horizon 5. Just as you probably expected, the map is absolutely massive.

The studio revealed the map via Twitter earlier today. It includes a look at some of the location names you will get to experience. It also includes a look at the different biomes that Playground Games talked about in detail just a couple of weeks back. It should...

Beaches, deserts, volcano peaks, and everything in between.

How do you feel about checking out a bunch of new screenshots for Forza Horizon 5? Good news then, because Playground Games just released a bunch of them today alongside news about the various biomes that you will be racing through when the game releases later this year.

There are 11 unique biomes to be found throughout the game. Not only that, but Forza Horizon 5 will still include seasons like Forza Horizon...

It's time to take a trip south of the border.

Forza Horizon 5 was revealed this evening during the Microsoft and Bethesda Mega-Hyper E3 2021 Spectacle. This time, the open-world racing game takes players south of the border to a country known as Mexico. It is here that players will experience the "largest, most diverse open world ever in a Forza Horizon game." And yes, there will once again be hundreds of different cars to tune, tweak, and drive.

Forza Horizon...