Playground Games details everything coming in the Forza Horizon 5 10-Year Anniversary celebration

The Forza Horizon 5 10-Year Anniversary is the game’s “biggest update ever.”

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What you need to know

What you need to know

Forza Horizon 5 has now been available for over six months, and in that time as enjoyed twelve Series updates that brought new cars, features, and content to the expanding open-world racing game. With the 10-year anniversary of the original Forza Horizon game arriving on Oct. 23, 2012, Playground Games is preparing to make Series 13 the game’s “biggest update ever,” according to the studio’s recent Forza Let’s Go! stream.

The next content update forForza Horizon 5is the Horizon 10-Year Anniversary update, originallyannounced during the Xbox Tokyo Game Show, and will bring an absurd amount of new content to the ongoing title. For four weeks, Forza Horizon 5 players will celebrate each of the four previous Forza Horizon games, and will have an opportunity to earn new cars, music, cosmetics, Achievements, and much more.

The highlights of the massive Horizon 10-Year Anniversary update for Forza Horizon 5, which also features Series 13 of the Forza Horizon 5 Festival Playlist, includes:

Players will be able to download the Horizon 10-Year Anniversary update for Forza Horizon 5 on Oct. 11, 2022 for Xbox and PC platforms, and will be able to enjoy its bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and more immediately afterward. The official celebration kicks off on Oct. 13, 2022, when Series 12 of the Festival Playlist ends and makes way for Series 13.

Forza Horizon 5 currently sits at the top as one of thegreatest racing games on Xbox, but practically every previous Forza Horizon game also held that spot during its tenure. With the Horizon 10-Year Anniversary update, players will be able to honor what made each of those games special, while also spending more time in what is the most ambitious and largest of the entire series. Players who have been on the fence about purchasing Forza Horizon 5 can also take advantage of discounts of up to 30% during the Horizon 10-Year Anniversary celebration.

Forza Horizon 5

Playground Games is celebrating 10 years of Forza Horizon with the next major update for Forza Horizon 5. Dubbed “Horizon 10-Year Anniversary,” the update brings new content and a fresh Festival Playlist.

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Forza Horizon 5, in all its entirety, is included in every tier of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, including on Xbox, PC, and Xbox Cloud Gaming. You can even secure sweet discounts on various FH5 DLC and expansions.

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