Forza Horizon 3

February’s just about here, and for Forza Horizon 3 players, that means another series of Forzathon events. The shortest month of the year is packing in the challenges, with seven separate sets running from this upcoming Friday to the day before March.

Earlier this month, in the midst of the release of the Rockstar Car Pack for Forza Horizon 3, Turn 10 accidentally gave its PC users a whole lot more; an entire debug version of the title, exclusively saved for development purposes for the in-house team.

As you are probably aware of by now, Forza Horizon 3 has received critical acclaim from many game reviewers, and is considered one of the best in the genre this generation. It earned itself the E3 2016 Game Critics Award for best racing game last year, and was even voted Best Racing Game by our community in the 2016 GTPlanet Awards.

Last month, user Yui-san gave us the gift of a misty-eyed stroll down memory lane for the holidays with his gallery of 23 racing games recreated in Forza Horizon 3. For the next installment in his series, the photographer has derived inspiration from iconic cars of television and movies.

If you’re still combing through the launch lineup of cars for Forza Horizon 3 and have yet to pick up the Car Pass, there may not be a better chance to do so than this week. Through the Deals with Gold program, the Car Pass is now available to Xbox Live Gold subscribers for $17.99.

Playground Games’ third entry in the Forza Horizon series has moved from strength to strength since release last autumn. Not only was it a critical success at the GAME Awards, but it looks like a commercial success as well. According to GfK Chart-Track (link via NeoGAF), Forza Horizon 3 came in an impressive tenth position in terms of physical game sales in the UK last year.

Change Racing will be returning to this year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with a new sponsor on board: Microsoft. Forza Motorsport branding is now present on the team’s Lamborghini Huracan GT3, driven by Corey Lewis along with Jeroen Mul, and will be competing in the GTD class at the upcoming Rolex 24 at Daytona (January 28).

When the latest update for Forza Horizon 3 was released, there was a slight issue with its distribution. The update brought the Rockstar Car Pack accompanied by a new barn find to Xbox One players without any complications. On the PC side, things didn’t go as smooth…

Forza Horizon 3’s weekly event cycle looks to have a strong start in 2017 with Forzathon ramping up this month with a rare Subaru, expensive Lykan, and … a horn, all winnable by participating in the challenges each week in January.

Amidst the leaks that have outed all sorts of interesting cars, Forza Horizon 3 has gained another free, new-to-franchise car. The latest barn find was tucked away in the title update that came alongside the Rockstar Car Pack, and reports quickly announced the new car as none other than the 1972 Volvo 1800E.

Oh dear. After Turn 10 accidentally unloaded a developer version of FH3 on PC players yesterday, the community has been diving deeper into the open-world racer. Yesterday, the first batch of leaks showed a handful of new cars, including some Porsches that have proven quite familiar on the XB1. Today’s discoveries, however, show something new.

Well now this is a surprise. The Rockstar Car Pack released earlier today for Forza Horizon 3, and at the usual 10AM PST time, the accompanying title update became available.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfqdpr8UYpo

Forza Horizon 3 is set to kick off the new year with its fourth monthly car pack tomorrow. The BMW i8 was already teased last month, confirming its place as the star of the pack, but a leak on the Windows Store has now outed the other six cars that will be arriving in 24 hours:

The beautiful Australian plains of Forza Horizon 3 got all wrapped in snow and ice as Turn 10’s new Blizzard Mountain Expansion kicked off last week. Over 50 new challenges and eight new vehicles proved to be just the tip of the iceberg, leaving Forza supporters plenty of new achievements to aim for. If you’ve been particularly interested in record hunting, the video above should be just the ticket.

Sometimes you just know when you’re right. Just last week Turn 10’s Brian Ekberg began speaking of the team’s plans for the new year, confirming a new Forzathon event for Forza Horizon 3 in January featuring “the most requested BMW in Forza history.”

Well isn’t this a pleasant surprise, the year has yet to come to an end and Turn 10 are already discussing plans for the new year. While a new car pack was expected for the first month of the new year, the contents within were a mystery – that is until now.

The Spotlight is back again to share the goings-on within the GTPlanet community. Last week the attention was drawn toward 24 racing games recreated in the world of Forza Horizon 3, by user Yui-san.

It’s the weekend, which means another set of Forzathon challenges await players in Forza Horizon 3. Fresh of the release of Blizzard Mountain earlier this week, the challenges focus on off-roaders and rally legends:

https://youtu.be/6cD8OZQF6yo