Following the first video last October, the Women of Xbox UK group has once again brought together women from across Xbox to discuss their experiences in the games industry. Celebrating International Women’s Day and reflecting this year’s theme of #ChooseToChallenge, this edition of Women of Xbox UK features Louise O’Connor (Everwild Executive Producer, Rare) in…
Read moreThe Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 is a league table ranking Britain’s top 100 private tech companies with the fastest growing sales over their latest three years. Playground Games have featured in 2016’s league table, ranked 96th, an incredible achievement considering we were only founded in 2010. We are one of two game…
READ MOREFollowing the runaway success of PokemonGo, Xbox UK mocked up what some of the upcoming Xbox releases might look like in ‘GO’ form. Intrigued, we encouraged adopting the #ForzaGo hashtag on Twitter. The aim is simple – see an amazing car, take a photo, and tweet it with a #ForzaGo hashtag. There have been some…
READ MOREIn June we announced Forza Horizon 3 at E3, to critical and popular acclaim. We left Los Angeles with 39 awards, including the coveted Game Critics Award for Best Racing Game of E3. Our team are currently hard at work ensuring that our third title will also be our best yet, and we can’t wait…
READ MOREE3 was crazy! Forza Horizon 3 was the second game shown on stage at the Xbox Briefing, right after a little game called Gears of War 4… Our Creative Director, Ralph Fulton, took to the stage and announced Forza Horizon 3 to the world following months of speculation from fans and press. That kick-started an…
READ MOREToday, on stage at the Xbox E3 Media Briefing in Los Angeles, we announced our new title Forza Horizon 3, which will be coming exclusively to Xbox One and Windows 10 on September 27th. We’re excited to be sharing more about the game this week at the E3 Expo, including an incredible demo…
READ MOREFor Twin Town 16 the guys at Rebellion Automotive provided us a free wrap for the car using off cuts of orange and some professionally printed vinyl stickers which they donated. Phil, the owner of Rebellion, and his team had been working flat out that day to make sure it was finished in time. It was everything…
READ MOREDrive from Witney to Le Touquet and back in a car costing no more than £500 you say? The Twin Town Challenge, in aid of the SpecialEffect charity, is back and Playground are not only sponsoring again – this time we have a team taking part. Our race crew, consisting of PG car obsessives Andrew,…
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