Posts tagged playground-games 
Best of the Rest: Earnest's picks of 2014
ATTENTION: The year 2014 has concluded its temporal self-destruct sequence. If you are among the escapees, please join us in salvaging and preserving the best games from the irradiated chrono-debris. Forza Horizon 2 Don't let the checkered flags and supercars speeding from point to point fool...
New expansion takes Forza Horizon 2 off-roading in a storm
Open-world racing hit Forza Horizon 2 grows a little larger today with the launch of the Storm Island expansion, a DLC addition that adds new cars, new areas and new events to the already sizable racer. Like the Rally Expansion Pack for the original Forza Horizon, the Storm Island expansion is d...
Six new DLC cars roll into Forza Horizon 2's garage
Playground Games' open-world racer Forza Horizon 2 picks up its second post-launch DLC pack today, which includes six new vehicles for players to race, paint and smash to pieces against the picturesque countryside. The highlight of the Falken Car Pack is the 2014 Alfa Romeo 4C, the beautiful Ita...
Forza Horizon 2: Xbox 360 vs Xbox One graphics showdown
We quite liked the Xbox One's new flagship racer Forza Horizon 2, but how does it perform on older hardware? According to this seven-minute video from the techies at Digital Foundry, the answer is "surprisingly well." [Image: Microsoft] ...
Don't expect Forza Horizon 2 DLC on Xbox 360
Playground Games has issued a clarifying statement revealing that the Xbox 360 version of its open-world racer Forza Horizon 2 will not share any of the DLC planned for the game's Xbox One release. The announcement follows up on this week's launch of the Mobil 1 Car Pack, the first of several pl...
Forza Horizon 2 review: Fetch the Bentley, we're going for a drive
Forza Horizon 2 is the kind of racing game that expands the idea of 'simulation' to include less material, more ambiguous parts of driving. What it feels like to zoom along the breezy coast in a lovely LaFerrari. The cringe of your beastly Nissan GT-R scraping through a tight turn in the castle tow...
Forza Horizon 2 rewards series loyalty with sweet rides
Experienced Forza players will hit the ground running in Forza Horizon 2 this month, as Turn 10 Studios will carry on with the series' loyalty program introduced last year. Announced just over a year ago, Forza Rewards hands the keys to some sweet digital vehicles to players that raced in past entr...
Final update brings Forza Horizon 2 garage to 210 cars
After weeks of slowly unveiling cars from Forza Horizon 2 developer Playground Games has now reached its final update and is ready to show the world the remaining 22 cars slated for inclusion in the upcoming open-world racer. No single theme unites this bunch of classic vehicles. Some, such as t...
Take Forza Horizon 2 out for a test drive next month
The demo for Forza Horizon 2 will be available for players to download on September 16. Playground Games' open-world racer will launch in full on September 30 for Xbox One, and will feature over 200 cars at launch. Microsoft also disclosed the game's achievements list, which can be found at Xbox Wi...
Forza Horizon 2 adds 28 more cars to its extensive roster
It's been 11 days since we last checked in on the 200-strong vehicle roster developer Playground Games is slowly unveiling for open-world racer Forza Horizon 2, and in that time the developer has introduced another 28 cars, both exotic and commonplace. On the all-time classic side of things, we ...
