Women of XBOX UK – International Women’s Day 2021

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…

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Women of XBOX UK – International Women’s Day 2021

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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…

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Women of Xbox UK

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The women at Xbox Game Studios UK are excited to share the first in the series of “Conversations with Women of Xbox UK”. Together with colleagues from Rare and Ninja Theory, we’ve set up a new group aimed at celebrating the women who work in gaming and encouraging new talent to come and find a…

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Forza Maths Challenge!

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Mathematics is a key skill no matter what part you play in video game development. To help encourage maths skills amongst young people one of our Playground Games Designers, Matthew Piper, has created the Forza Maths Challenge! If you are a school, group, organisation or society working with young people and would like print copies…

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Best Places to Work Awards 2019

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As proud sponsors of the 2019 Gamesindustry.biz Best Places to Work Awards, we recently attended the awards ceremony on the 20th September at the Ham Yard Hotel in central London. But we weren’t just there in our role of sponsors and we were thrilled to receive one of the event’s coveted Best Places to Work…

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EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!

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Last night our very own Ralph Fulton took to the stage at the Xbox E3 2019 Briefing in LA to announce our newest expansion for Forza Horizon 4, LEGO Speed Champions! This expansion will allow you to explore a LEGO world with changing seasons, numerous challenges and plenty of LEGO Speed ​​Champions cars like the…

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We won!

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It’s official, we’re now a BAFTA award winning studio! On Thursday 4th April 2019 we attended the 2019 BAFTA Game Awards at Southbank in London. Forza Horizon 4 was shortlisted for Best British Game along with Red Dead Redemption 2, The Room: Old Sins, 11-11: Memories Retold, Overcooked 2 and Two Point Hospital. And we…

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Gamasutra – Parallax window textures

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Gareth Harwood, Technical Art Director, at Playground recently spoke with Gamasutra about streaming in open-world games, highlighting  parallax textures in Forza Horizon 4. In the article Gareth goes into detail on how he and his team came up with a modular building solution to achieve a smaller memory footprint and how they implemented the parallax…

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