《极限竞速：地平线》主创创立全新3A游戏工作室

微软《极限竞速：地平线（Forza Horizon）》系列背后的一些关键人才已经离开了Playground Games工作室，组建了一个名为Maverick Games的全新3A开发工作室。

该团队由前《极限竞速：地平线》创意总监Mike Brown领导，他目前担任新工作室的创意总监和负责人。该公司表示，目前已获得大量种子资金，其首款游戏将是游戏机和PC上的全新开放世界游戏，但公告并未确认是否是赛车游戏。

Maverick的领导团队还包括前Playground的首席制片人、技术总监、艺术总监、音频总监等。Mike Brown表示：“我们的目标是让 Maverick Games 成为人们喜爱的工作室，我们已经在着手制作一款令人激动的超高质量游戏。”

Another day, another new studio—this time from the talented folks behind the excellent Forza Horizon 5, which won our best open world award in 2021 (opens in new tab). Maverick Games—big Top Gun fans, clearly—announced its launch today, led by Forza Horizon 5 creative director Mike Brown.  Along with Brown, the studio's founders include several former Playground Games developers, as well as former Sumo Digital co-studio head Harinder Sangha and EA experience design director Elly Marshall.  The announcement was accompanied by a boilerplate quote from Brown, which manages to hit all the classic studio announcement cliches.  "Our goal is for Maverick Games to be a studio people will love," he says. "For players, we're already at work on an exciting ultra-high quality title, and for developers, we're building a home where everyone is encouraged to take risks, be curious, be creative, be innovative, be themselves, and above all—be a Maverick." Of course, mavericks are terrible team players and are probably the last thing you'd want in a highly collaborative development studio. Oh no, I've become the police chief in an '80s cop movie telling the hero they're out of control. Maverick Games, give me your gun and badge.  These loose cannons are already working on their first game: a "premium open-world game for consoles and PC." That's all we're getting for now, but the team certainly has plenty of experience when it comes to open-world romps. While Forza Horizon 5 didn't come with many surprises, it's one of the most refined and energetic open-world games around. More of the same, please.  As for their former employers, Playground Games is still supporting FH5, while another team works on the Fable reboot (opens in new tab) that I still can't quite believe is actually happening.