




Community Leaders
Community event organizers are central to Forza's community, inspiring competition, creativity, and ingenuity. With excitement around Forza Motorsport, 2023 saw organizers using all their expertise to craft events and schedules that could straddle the transition from one game to the next. Kudos to you all! The year kicked off with the brilliant FTC Renault 5 Cup, seeing both great door to door racing and of course the amazing photography for which FTC have earned renowned across the Forza community. By late February the series was cinched by justScotty--despite close competition from Joeyst25. Look out for FTC in 2024 with Race Academy meets running each and every Sunday.


Forza Motorsport
At the start of the year, we invited our friends at Xbox to Turn 10 Studios as part of Developer_Direct to give you a technical showcase of Forza Motorsport with a behind-the-scenes look at the cars, tracks and audio in the game. We also participated in the Xbox Games Showcase in June, opening pre-orders for Forza Motorsport and showcasing the Builders Cup Career Mode. Before launch, we flew to Cologne for gamescom, demoing new gameplay to our community at an in-person theater experience. Being in Germany, it was the perfect opportunity to reveal the Nürburgring GP circuit would be available in the game, with the Nordschleife coming in spring 2024. [previewyoutube=13Qzm2qqXA4;full][/previewyoutube] Since the release of Forza Motorsport, we've been listening to your feedback about the game and where you would like to see improvements or changes made. Stay tuned, as we’ll have more to share about these topics early in 2024. So far, we’ve shipped two major content updates to Forza Motorsport, introducing both Yas Marina and Hockenheim with multiple track layouts for each, new Spotlight cars and Car Pass deliveries, and new weekly events across Career Mode, Featured Multiplayer and Rivals. You can stay up to date with the current active events in Forza Motorsport at Forza.net/Events.
Forza Horizon 5
What a year this has been to adventure through the Horizon Festival in México! Through 12 game updates you have explored Mexico in different cars, customized your vehicles to truly make them your own, completed thrilling challenges to unlock new, exciting cars, snapped breathtaking pictures for our contests, and created the most amazing events for the community to enjoy.
Welcome Our Newest Expansion
March saw the release of the second expansion that came to Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure.

New Permanent Features
Every update we release for Forza Horizon 5 brings features we hope our players love using. We like to focus on unique themes that enhance your gameplay experience each month.

Snapping the Perfect Year
Explore the Horizon was released in May of this year, and with it came a feature many of our players were asking for: an upgraded Photo Mode to take front cover-worthy photos of their favorite cars in the many gorgeous backdrops Mexico has to offer. Of course, our community of talented creators put the new features implemented in this update to good use as you can see on our many Photo Contests held on our social media accounts. We are very eager to see what you guys come up with for next year and many more to come.
Fueling the Community’s Creative Spirit
Our community members never stop creating awesome and unique events that everyone can enjoy. We have seen everything from extreme challenges, fun tours, and completely new game modes designed in EventLab. However, we wanted to step up the creation game and give you better tools to create the huge events you always dreamt of making, which is why we built an entire series around inventing: Horizon Creatives.
Our Most Requested Car Makes Its Appearance
The Día de Muertos update meant to recreate this iconic Mexican holiday and include as many references to Mexican folklore as possible. We had marigold stands and petals lying around the Festival, inflatable skulls decorating the streets, and alebrijes of many different forms to find. [previewyoutube=9n_2nx6ispw;full][/previewyoutube] This celebration of Mexican culture and folklore would not be complete without Mexico’s automotive sweetheart: the 2010 Nissan Tsuru which we brought as a Festival Playlist reward car for the Día de Muertos update. The Tsuru, as unbelievable as it sounds, was our most requested car on the Suggestions Hub, and what a more fitting time to bring it to the Horizon Festival than Día de Muertos.Rolling Out the Red Carpet for Our Partnerships
The Horizon Festival was starstruck this year, as we had the fortune of collaborating with two brands of huge relevance in automotive history.
Start the New Year with a Huge Throwback
What better way to start the new year than with a series co-created with you! Community Choice is one of many ways we have to show how much we appreciate our fans.
Celebrating Our Community
The Golden Tank Awards are just around the corner!

Thanks for Racing!
The biggest highlight we have is and always will be our amazing community. Whether you are a player, a builder, creator, event runner, or anything along those lines, we celebrate all the passion and love you have for the entire Forza franchise.