Microsoft Announces Forza Motorsport Will Drop on October 10

Microsoft announced(Opens in a new window) at Summer Game Fest on Sunday that Forza Motorsport is set to land on Xbox and PC on October 10 after an initial planned release in Spring. 

The game is the eighth mainline release in the Turn 10 Studios’ racing series and it was teased(Opens in a new window) for the first time back in 2020. Forza Motorsport will launch on Xbox Series X / S, PC and Xbox Game Pass.

In January this year, as Turn 10 announced the pushback of the game’s release, it said in a blog post(Opens in a new window) that it had used a spectrophotometer to scan the paint jobs of each playable car. The developer said the “new sourcing technique” meant “paint models have a more realistic light response across colors, metal flake and gloss levels.”

In the blog post, the studio also said the environments in Forza Motorsport feature 10 times more realistic detail than previous Forza releases and that the game comes with the addition of dynamic time of day and weather simulation. You can check out the first gameplay trailer for the game below.

Forza Motorsport will also include 100 new vehicles, already 500 cars in the game’s lineup. Two of those cars are the Cadillac V series R and the Corvette E-Ray which come as part of the game’s partnership with General Motors.

And as The Verge notes(Opens in a new window), back in April, the game’s developer announced a blind driving assist feature that is said to help blind and low vision players play better via beeps and boops.

Earlier in the week at Summer Game Fest, Microsoft announced it was making 75 limited-edition Xbox Series X consoles and controllers to celebrate automaker Porsche’s 75th birthday.

The consoles, which come with one of six custom case designs, can only be won via participating in a sweepstake on this dedicated website(Opens in a new window). The competition is open to all residents of the US, UK, and Germany who are 18 years of age or over.