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Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 Summer Festival Playlist kicks off with seven cars to unlock
gaming25 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 Summer Festival Playlist kicks off with seven cars to unlock

Forza Horizon 6's Festival Playlist Series 2 Summer is live, offering seven cars to unlock across 50 points from 19 seasonal challenges. At 20 points you can grab the 1989 Volkswagen Rallye Golf, at 40 points the 1988 Lamborghini Countach LP5000 QV, and the weekly rewards include the 1993 Porsche 911 Turbo S Leichtbau (80 points) and the 2018 Lotus Exige Cup 430 (160 points). Other rewards up for grabs this week include the DeLorean DMC-12 and the 1988 BMW M3 via various Championships, plus opportunities from The Trial, PR Stunts, Wheelspins, and more, with the Played-List achievement potentially harder to pop this season.

Forza Horizon 6 Clamps Down on Hummer Credit Exploit, Restores Accounts and Grants Free Car
games27 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 Clamps Down on Hummer Credit Exploit, Restores Accounts and Grants Free Car

Players used a specific Hummer glitch in Forza Horizon 6’s Eliminator mode to earn tens of millions of credits in minutes. Playground Games temporarily removed Eliminator, then said it would delete the ill-gotten credits and reset affected accounts to a maximum of 10 million. No bans were issued, and all players will receive a free 2021 McLaren Sabre once the mode returns after a hotfix.

Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 Update Introduces AI Tuning and Free McLaren Sabre
gaming27 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 Series 2 Update Introduces AI Tuning and Free McLaren Sabre

The Series 2 patch for Forza Horizon 6 is live on Xbox and PC, delivering AI difficulty balance tweaks, revised Driveatar behavior at race starts, faster Horizon Play leveling, a Roads Driven metric, and Drag Tire adjustments; as a goodwill bonus, every player gets the 2021 McLaren Sabre due to an Eliminator exploit, with Series 2 coinciding with the June 18 Festival Playlist and extensive bug fixes across gameplay, visuals, and saves.

FH6 patch trims the 1,000-hour grind with XP tweaks in Horizon Play
gaming27 days ago

FH6 patch trims the 1,000-hour grind with XP tweaks in Horizon Play

Playground Games' Forza Horizon 6 update reduces the XP grind for the Maxed Out achievement by rebalancing Horizon Play XP between levels 26–100, letting some players reach level 100 much faster (even jumping to 100 from level 32). The patch also improves AI Drivatars, road discovery, and bug fixes, and brings The Eliminator back with a free car as an apology for the downtime.

Forza Horizon 6 June 15 Patch Tweaks Drag Tires, AI Balance and Visuals
gaming28 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 June 15 Patch Tweaks Drag Tires, AI Balance and Visuals

Playground Games’ June 15 Title Update for Forza Horizon 6 brings general performance and stability fixes, fixes a slow launch after Benchmark Mode, visual improvements (red smoke in Street Races, rain on PC, rear motion blur on a specific Evo), and adjusted Drag Tire physics to discourage their use outside drag racing. The patch also includes AI difficulty balancing tweaks, Drivatar start fixes, and various fixes across Festival Playlist, Horizon Play, Road Discovery, and visuals. Steam will auto-download the update on next launch, with full patch notes detailing all changes.

Forza Horizon 6 Elevates Open-World Racing With Japan’s Vast Playground
gaming29 days ago

Forza Horizon 6 Elevates Open-World Racing With Japan’s Vast Playground

Forza Horizon 6 debuts to strong praise and record engagement, transporting players to a dense, vertically varied Japan open world with over 550 cars, a new Collection Journal, and ongoing updates like Festival Playlist and evolving world content. Multiplayer features include Convoys and Shared World Meetups, and the game is available on Xbox Series X|S, PC (Steam/Xbox app) and Cloud, with Game Pass inclusion for quick access.

AMD Expands Shader Delivery Across RDNA GPUs, Slashing Load Times by Up to 95%
technology1 month ago

AMD Expands Shader Delivery Across RDNA GPUs, Slashing Load Times by Up to 95%

AMD, in partnership with Microsoft, is rolling Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) out to the entire RDNA GPU stack (RDNA 1–4), delivering up to a 95% reduction in shader load times and stutter. In Forza Horizon 6 ASD brings the game from about 1.5 minutes to roughly 4 seconds on supported hardware, with a growing list of titles and ongoing expansion to more devices and IHV hardware.

gaming1 month ago

Xbox Probes Forza Horizon 6 Save-Erasure Bug

Xbox is investigating reports of a save file erasure bug in Forza Horizon 6 that can wipe progress and owned cars, with some players losing tens of hours of work; theories include issues with Xbox Quick Resume or problems related to painting or upgrading certain cars. Xbox Support says the issue is being looked into, and some players have recovered old saves or backed up saves via community tools, but players are advised to wait for a patch before resuming heavy progression.

Forza Horizon 6 saves back on track with PC fix ahead of Xbox rollout
technology1 month ago

Forza Horizon 6 saves back on track with PC fix ahead of Xbox rollout

The Forza Horizon 6 save-file loss issue is being fixed: PC players have received a patch via Xbox Gaming Services, while an Xbox system update is rolling out today. Playground Games advises disabling Quick Resume, exiting with the save icon not visible, and waiting a few minutes for cloud synchronization, with PC/Steam users instructed to run Gaming Services version 37.114.10001.0 or higher.

Playground Games signals fix for Forza Horizon 6's 1,000-hour grind
gaming1 month ago

Playground Games signals fix for Forza Horizon 6's 1,000-hour grind

Playground Games has said it’s looking into Forza Horizon 6’s notoriously grindy 1,000‑hour “Maxed Out” achievement, noting it isn’t what they had in mind. The issue stems from an ever-rising XP curve in online Horizon Play events, with a fix teased for a future update; in the meantime, Series 1 events offer the easier path to progress.

LEGO Batman Leads UK Charts as Yoshi Breaks onto the Podium
technology1 month ago

LEGO Batman Leads UK Charts as Yoshi Breaks onto the Podium

LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight debuts at No. 1 in the UK charts, followed by Forza Horizon 6 at No. 2 and Yoshi and the Mysterious Book at No. 3; Nintendo titles and Switch 2 presence shape a busy week, Tomodachi Life slips to seventh, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle tumbles from second to 17th as the rest of the top 40 plays out.

FH6 Near-5M Pre-Launch Sales Signal Strong Start
gaming1 month ago

FH6 Near-5M Pre-Launch Sales Signal Strong Start

Alinea Analytics data indicate Forza Horizon 6 sold around 4.9 million copies across Xbox and Steam by May 22, including four days of early access and roughly three days of main release, with over 3 million players accessing the game via Xbox Game Pass. Playground Games had earlier cited 6 million players, and SteamDB reported a concurrent PC peak over 300,000 during opening weekend. While third-party figures should be treated cautiously, the numbers align with official claims and suggest FH6 is performing strongly across platforms.