Playground Games (Forza Horizon Developer) Open a New UK Studio With Some Serious Plans

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Forza Horizon creators Playground Games have officially opened up a new 200-man studio in Leamington Spa, with plans for the newly assembled team (including some notable hires) to work on a mysterious new action RPG project.

Notable hires, working on a new game are : 

1.   Sean Eyestone, previously worked with DICE on Star Wars: Battlefront 2, and with Kojima              Productions on Metal Gear Solid V, Now Production Director in a new crew.

2.   Will Kennedy, former level and game designer for Grand Theft Auto V, Now Chief Designer in a crew.

3.   Juan Fernández, Hellblade senior designer. Now The Principal Combat Designer.

 

Playground Games wants to diversify and not be forever labelled as ‘The Forza Developer Studio’. The new team has an experienced industry crew joined by a mixture of new low-level hires and existing Playground staff.

 

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Good for them, very like Forza, I hope they use all developer crew potential


RockNRolla

Good. Design these guys do know how. We are waiting for something interesting.






Galactic

They must have put together a really diversified team if they're going out of their comfort zone to produce an action RPG