Playground Games

Playground Games Limited
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryVideo games
Founded2010; 14 years ago (2010)
Founders
  • Gavin Raeburn
  • Trevor Williams
  • Ralph Fulton
Headquarters,
England
Number of locations
3 (2024)[1]
Key people
Products
Number of employees
381[2] (2023)
ParentXbox Game Studios (2018–present)
Websiteplayground-games.com

Playground Games Limited is a British video game developer based in Leamington Spa, England. It is known for developing the Forza Horizon series, which is part of the larger Forza franchise. In 2018, Playground Games became part of Microsoft Studios (now known as Xbox Game Studios).[3] They are also developing the next game in the Fable series.[4][5]

  1. ^ "New Fable Game Now Has 3 Studios Working On It". 30 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Playground Games Limited Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2023". gov.uk. Retrieved 1 October 2024.
  3. ^ Field, Matthew (11 June 2018). "Microsoft buys UK game studio behind Forza Horizon". The Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Archived from the original on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
  4. ^ Gartenberg, Chaim (10 June 2018). "Microsoft announces Forza Horizon 4 for Xbox One and PC". The Verge. Archived from the original on 11 June 2018. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
  5. ^ "Playground Games Hiring For "Entirely New AAA Open World Action RPG"". 4 October 2019. Archived from the original on 17 August 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.