Forza Horizon developer Playground Video games’ co-founder and former studio head Gavin Raeburn has revealed his new AAA studio Lighthouse Video games.
Raeburn and “a workforce of world class builders” are at the moment engaged on an unannounced new IP, however shared no particulars as to what this shall be or if it’s even within the racing style.
As the previous govt producer on a number of Dust and GRID video games, nevertheless, and the studio head of Playground because it produced 5 Forza Horizon video games, it’s maybe doubtless that Lighthouse is engaged on a brand new racing sport.
Raeburn is joined by 30 former colleagues together with “key founding members” of Playground Video games and different industry-leading expertise, once more alluding to the creation of one thing new within the racing sport style.
“I’m delighted that 30 former colleagues and different {industry} heavyweights have chosen to affix me at Lighthouse,” Raeburn mentioned.
“With Horizon, Playground and I created one of the profitable Xbox franchises of all time. We delivered vital industrial success 12 months after 12 months, to large vital acclaim, following the success from my time at Codemasters main Dust, Grid and F1.
“That DNA is now at Lighthouse, and with it, we intend to construct one thing actually particular utilizing all our expertise to create a brand new genre-defining franchise.”
It’ll be some time earlier than we discover out what that franchise is, in fact, provided that Lighthouse Video games as a studio has solely been introduced at the moment, and certain years longer earlier than the sport is launched.
Raeburn’s pedigree speaks for itself and he wasn’t improper concerning the success of Forza Horizon. IGN has awarded each single sport in the franchise not less than a 9/10 in our critiques, with the newest Forza Horizon 5 reaching a brand new degree and incomes masterpiece standing.
Playground has deviated from the Forza Horizon collection for the primary time in its historical past although, as it’s now engaged on the Fable reboot coming to Xbox Sequence X and S.
It’s unclear if this pivot has something to do with racing veteran Raeburn’s departure, although he’s a part of the second group of builders to go away Playground in virtually as many months. Forza Horizon 5 inventive director Mike Brown left to kind Maverick Video games in January, taking a lot of prime expertise with him.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer and performing UK information editor. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.
