Forza Horizon is celebrating its 10-year anniversary with new update

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The Forza Horizon franchise is about to hit its 10-year milestone. Playground Games is celebrating this anniversary achievement with a fresh update for Forza Horizon 5. A returning music track selection, racing events, and more are all on the party list, set to drop in the Anniversary Update on October 11.

The upcoming update will include an all-new Horizon Story, which Playground describes as “exploring the origins of the Forza Horizon series.” In addition, returning songs from the series will be hosted on a new radio station.

Street race fans will also get to enjoy the new Midnight Battles mode, where players can compete in head-to-head races. And in true street race fashion, the winning prize will be the loser’s ride. Even more features will be coming to this new mode, too.

From the hills of Colorado, to the fields of Southern Europe, with the Great Outback, British cobblestone streets, and rainforests of Mexico in between, the Forza Horizon series has grown dramatically in the decade since its introduction.

It’s carved such a vibrant image of its own, some may argue that it stands out as a separate entity from its Forza Motorsport origins. Though these two branches of the overall Forza family share DNA, they’re different beasts, and the gulf of that divide has widened with each new entry.

While the upcoming Forza Motorsport reboot will bring with it some extremely complex simulation mechanics, Forza Horizon 5 continues to lean on the wild and absurd. After all, it opens with a Ford Bronco hurtling down the side of an active volcano, and it also now has a unhinged expansion that consists of sending real-life renditions of toy cars rocketing up to a skyward track network above the clouds.

Forza Horizon 5 has become the