Forza Horizon dev working on new open-world game; Will not feature racing

Over the past few years, Playground Games has been knee deep in Forza Horizon. In fact, the developers are behind three iterations of Forza Horizon, but they aren't looking to be locked into simply being a studio that simply pumps out 'Forza Horizon' games.

Playground is set on opening a new studio, within walking distance of their headquarters, to work on a brand new game. "It's a great opportunity for us to test ourselves in a different genre," said PlayGround Games' founder and creative director Ralph Fulton to GamesIndustry.biz.

While Fulton offered light details on Playground's new game of a "different genre," he didn't detail much beyond the fact that it would be an open-world game and not a racing game.

"We feel like we've become pretty good at racing games over the years. We can always get better, we can always strive to get better but we'd love to prove ourselves in a different genre. That's another goal of Project 2, to allow us to do that. We're going to need to hire some very talented people with experience that we don't have."

Fulton is still looking to build the second team, as well as the studio itself, so the details are sparse. However, it's good to see a developer branching out.