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While Star Wars: Galactic Racer is an all-around excellent racing game full of challenging action and arcade thrills, it's safe to say one particular aspect of it has blown up beyond all reason: Biddy Blas. The voice actor behind the crocodilian alien has been "overwhelmed" by the reception, and rest assured – he's playing the game himself, so he knows exactly how annoying his character is.

"Yes, I'm playing the game," Richard Summers-Calvert confirms to Empire. "Yes, I love the game. Am I any good at it? That’s another question." Well, at least he's not alone in seemingly being pushed to the limit by the game, since the devs intended to crank up the challenge level. In the meantime, the actor has gotten the chance to really get to know Biddy.

"He's incredibly annoying," Summers-Calvert admits. "There's that thing called 'cuteness aggression.' I love him so much, I want to throw him at the wall. That's how I feel about Biddy Blas."

He adds, "Whether you love him, or you love him because you love to hate him, [Biddy] is unanimously appreciated."

I'm an old enough Star Wars fan to still hold a little resentment in my heart for the term "Glup Shitto," but there's no doubt that a core part of the series' appeal is the vast array of weird little guys with weird little personalities. The spirits of Salacious B. Crumb, Babu Frik, and Ben Quadinaros live on in Biddy Blas, and for that I think we can all be grateful.

Check out our full Star Wars: Galactic Racer review.

Biddy Blas actor Richard Summers-Calvert has reacted to the outpouring of love towards his elite-tier Glup Shitto in Star Wars: Galactic Racer.

As a racing game, Star Wars: Galactic Racer has been going down well with fans of the genre. With the high-speed and punishing races being exhilarating to play, there's no wonder it's one of the best-reviewed Star Wars games ever.

However, even bigger than the game itself is the reaction to a new little critter introduced into the franchise through it, that being one Biddy Blas. As soon as release day, people were dubbing Biddy Blas "the best Glup Shitto ever," and his screeches of "scrib doon" and "ding dong pookie, ding dooooong" have been all over social media since launch.

Biddy Blas actor Summers-Calvert – also known as professional wrestler Charles Crowley – posted a video on Twitter acknowledging the love his teeny little crocodile man has received, saying "I am overwhelmed and overstimulated."

Summers-Calvert adds that he's been receiving messages asking about his absence from Comic Con, with the actor recounting the overnight hype for him following the release of Galactic Racer, saying, "Just give me a second, I feel like people have woken me up and they've gone 'DING DONG POOKIE, DING DONG.'"

"I am so so grateful and so happy that everybody loves Biddy Blas," Summers-Calvert says, and urging fans to tell their local conventions that they're interested in seeing him. He then promises that if he is at a convention, he can "scrib doon."

How former Burnout devs came full circle for Star Wars: Galactic Racer to bring the edge back into racing games: "'Arcade' is not the absence of depth."

The former Burnout developers behind Star Wars: Galactic Racer reckon it's important to challenge players, because they're going to tune out otherwise.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a tough game. Intentionally so, with Fuse Games CEO Matt Webster saying "we are asking way more out of players" this time around compared to the Burnout games that a majority of the team used to develop, because "modern gamers can manage a greater amount of cognitive load."

Not only is the racing extremely fast, but you have a slate of aggressive racers trying to ram you off the track, and the slightest hesitation on a turn can cause you to launch into a corner and explode. And given that you only have a finite amount of crashes before you're forced to forfeit, it's likely that some may take a significant amount of time before they even reach act 2.

Speaking to GamesRadar+, Webster explains plainly: "Games should challenge players." With the Burnout series, he says, "we used to throw rewards at you – dopamine hits of reward, reward, car, car, car! Eventually, if that's just one note, then you start to tune it out."

He adds, "But this game should challenge you. We wanted to front that up so you feel like, 'a hard fought fifth place – yeah I'll take it.'"

Webster describes a need for what he calls "light and shade," calling the segments where you play as Shade when you reach a new planet an "important aspect." He says: "You've got the light and shade between the super high intensity racing and the lower intensity immersion in Star Wars."

How former Burnout devs came full circle for Star Wars: Galactic Racer to bring the edge back into racing games: "'Arcade' is not the absence of depth."

From the moment developer Fuse Games was founded in January 2023, the intent for the studio was to make a Star Wars racing game. CEO Matt Webster tells me that roughly three weeks into the studio's life, the team were on a plane to visit Lucasfilm Games and pitch the idea – "Galactic Racer".

As a studio founded by former Criterion Games developers (Criterion Games previously helmed the Burnout series and later worked on EA's 2015 Star Wars Battlefront and its sequel), fusing the team's arcade racing pedigree and previous experience working on Star Wars titles, as Fuse's creative director Kieran Crimmins says, was "a no-brainer"). While 'Burnout but Star Wars' is certainly an intriguing pitch on its own (I was absolutely hooked on the concept from its first reveal in December 2025), the team at Fuse wasn't content with just going back to familiar territory when you need to stand out amongst a galaxy of games.

Burnt out

With series like Forza Horizon and Gran Turismo dominating the triple-A racing space, the focus has shifted from arcade action to realism and scale that makes the most of modern hardware. More cars, more tracks, vast open worlds, and endless rewards, for anyone and everyone. Even Mario Kart, one of the last mainstream bastions for arcade racing, followed suit with Mario Kart World's core feature being an open world.

With their heritage and expertise from the arcade racing of the 2000s, the developers at Fuse Games were never going to follow the crowd when making Star Wars: Galactic Racer. "I think these guys at Fuse could've absolutely made just a killer arcade racing game," says Craig Derrick, executive producer at Lucasfilm Games. "But there was always the intention, I think from the very beginning, of "how do we push the genre forward?"

It's not the first time the founders of Fuse have pioneered the genre either, with their previous work at Criterion Games partly shaping modern racing games too. 2008's Burnout Paradise – while not the first open-world racing game – undoubtedly went on to influence the first entries in the Forza Horizon and The Crew series, thanks to a map that lacked defined tracks and acted more as a driving playground.

Crimmins describes this post-Burnout Paradise shift as a "sea change" but feels that there hasn't quite been another one in the racing genre since, despite there being plenty of polished racers across the triple-A and indie space. Specifically, he believes that consequences are "sorely missing" in big racing games, with Webster adding that some feel a bit toothless: "I think there's been a bit of a burnishing off of, I suppose, the edge in [racing games]. You put a car in the wall and what's going to happen? And if it's nothing, then it just falls a little bit flat from an emotional perspective."

Rogue One

So, looking to make waves by bringing back consequence with Galactic Racer and after a lot of prototyping, the team at Fuse Games determined that the runs-based, roguelike-inspired format was the way to go. As I noted in my Star Wars: Galactic Racer review, I couldn't believe that this racing-roguelike hybrid had never been attempted before by a mainstream studio because it's a natural fit.

Applying a runs-based structure to an arcade racer fights against "a bunch of racing game conventions", explains Webster. As well as facing little to no consequences, players are also conditioned to win all the time in a lot of modern racing games, which is something that the roguelike mechanics in Star Wars: Galactic Racer vehemently oppose. "This game should challenge you, and we wanted to front that up, so you feel like 'a hard-fought fifth place? Yeah, I'll take it'," Webster says.

Hurtling around Galactic Racer's circuits and inevitably obliterating your speeder means winning your first few events is unlikely, and it's an oddly refreshing humbling experience. Those crashes are also where Burnout's DNA shines through most in Galactic Racer. It also feels like classic Star Wars, which makes sense as Webster says that, in a full-circle moment, they were inspired by The Phantom Menace back in the day.

"When we were making Burnout, the podracing sequence in Episode One was a massive influence in terms of the drama and the excitement and the sheer speed and power, and the visceral nature of those crashes was a big inspiration," he says. Bringing those back in a true Star Wars setting with a roguelike structure means each crash serves as a "learning moment" too, and, indeed, I quickly learned that survival is the priority, not victory.

Bring balance

However, Galactic Racer was once a lot more punishing. Going over previous iterations of the wrecking out loop, Webster and Crimmins share that there was a version where you could crash only once instead of three times, and another where you had to finish in the top three every time – the latter lives on as the Eliminator event. Webster also says that Galactic Racer asks a lot from its players in terms of cognitive load.

But it also went the other way, as Crimmins explains there was a version that was much more straightforward. "It felt like it lost all its teeth, and now it feels trivial, and my decisions don't matter," he says. "Getting that balance right is incredibly important to give you that emotional high when you do win but also give you that impetus to move forward when you don't."

That's a doubly difficult balance to strike when a chunk of your audience might also just be in it for Star Wars with little to no experience with racing games. As Derrick explains, that meant making the game accessible without pulling back from what Fuse wanted to do, with the game's narrative and Shade's journey being crucial.

"We onboard you through a fun racing story," Derrick says. "Then we put you in the paddock, and now you have a place where you've decreased the pace for just a minute, so that you can kind of get a sense of the world and feel where your place is. And then we start to amp it up and then push the challenge. Then it's rewarding because it's not punitive."

Despite Galactic Racer being challenging at times, making an accessible and true arcade racer was core to Webster's philosophy. "'Arcade' is not the absence of depth. It's how the game presents itself to you, making it super approachable," he says. "I can get in, have an amazing experience really quickly, but it wants me to carry on. And I think that's really what we've done [with Galactic Racer] is embrace that and modernize it in a way that keeps its heart but also begins to add some contemporary game aspects."

Those peaks and troughs of intensity, difficulty, and strategy from the runs-based format are what make Star Wars: Galactic Racer so engaging to me. Rather than being a dopamine stream of first-place finishes and prizes that eventually ring hollow, or getting bogged down in realistic simulation, it forces you to get used to fighting for every position and taking great risks in a way that most modern racing games don't. For that reason, Galactic Racer could represent another sea change for the genre.

Galactic Racer is easily one of the best Star Wars games if you're feeling the Force. And its runs-based twist means it's also one of the best racing games you can play right now!

How long it takes to beat Star Wars Galactic Racer varies a lot, but rolling the credit can certainly be done in under 30 hours. The reason for the variation is its runs-based structure, so how long it takes you to beat ultimately depends on your skill and the number of tours you do. With that in mind, I've laid out some estimations for how long it might take you to beat Star Wars Galactic Racer as well as how each Act is structured so you know what lies ahead.

How long is Galactic Racer?

Star Wars Galactic Racer should take you roughly 20-30 hours to complete all three Acts and roll the credits.

That's obviously quite a broad range but, as I've said, it's down to how many tours you do. If you're a gifted racer, you might get through each Act in only a few attempts, which will mean you might even complete the game in under 20 hours. Conversely, if you have some absolute stinkers, you'll be closer to or exceeding 30 hours. Using the best Star Wars Galactic Racer speeder and my Galactic Racer tips might help you win more races, but you've still got to make good choices on every tour all the way through to Derven Acos to move onto the next act.

If you're looking to unlock and even upgrade everything in the campaign, such as Galactic Racer Favors, you can add several more hours onto your completion time. You'll be relying on random chance for some unlocks so this can take a while. Factor in all the Scenarios, Arcade time trials, and multiplayer and you're easily looking at spending 50+ hours in Star Wars Galactic Racer. I rolled the credits after about 27 hours but have continued playing for another 20 or so due to all the non-campaign extras.

How many Acts are in Galactic Racer?

As mentioned, Star Wars Galactic Racer has three Acts. I won't go into the story specifics to avoid spoilers but here's how they look structurally:

• Act 1: Jakku > Lantaana > Ando Prime > Derven Acos Qualifier event
  • Every planet besides Derven Acos has four regular events for a total of 13 events in a single Act 1 tour.
• Act 2: Sentinel I > Jakku > Crait > Ando Prime > Derven Acos Galactic Gauntlet and final race
  • Every planet besides Derven Acos has four regular events for a total of 18 events in a single Act 2 tour.
• Act 3: Lantaana > Sentinel I > Ando Prime > Jakku > Crait > Derven Acos Galactic Gauntlet and final race
  • Every planet besides Derven Acos has four regular events and ends with a Podracing Challenge, for a total of 27 events in a single Act 3 tour.

If you've got a Prime subscription, you can stream Star Wars Galactic Racer on Amazon Luna.

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer studio lead Matt Webster says the new roguelite racer is way more complex than other racers by the same team.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is out now, and finally brings the series back to racing after a 24 year gap since the PS2's Racer Revenge. And perhaps more crucially, it's developed by the team at Fuse Games, which was born from multiple members of Criterion Games, making Galactic Racer as much of a homage to Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer as it is to Burnout 3 and Burnout Revenge.

And while working with a well known and mostly family-friendly IP like Star Wars could've led the devs to perhaps tone things down a little, Galactic Racer is pretty tough. You're moving at super high speeds and even brushing a wall can cause your speeder to blow up. And in the game's campaign, you only have three chances to blow up before you're eliminated and need to restart a run.

Talking to GamesRadar+ guides editor Will Sawyer – who also wrote our Star Wars: Galactic Racer review – Fuse Games CEO Webster spoke about the complexity of the racer, saying, "One of the things that's really interesting for me is that modern gamers can manage a greater amount of cognitive load."

He explains, "We are asking way more out of players in this game than I think we've ever done in a racing game with multiple boost things, pressing more than one face button at a time, switching up the abilities, and thinking strategically and tactically at the same time whilst traveling at 700 kilometers an hour and your eyes are on stalks. It's quite amazing."

Naturally, Galactic Racer has gone down a treat with many, becoming one of the highest-rated Star Wars games ever, and that's undoubtedly down to the racing pedigree of Fuse Games… and Ben Quadinaros, obviously.

Star Wars Galactic Racer introduces "the best Glup Shitto ever," an annoying little dude who'll blow up your vehicle for fun, and fans love him: "George Lucas would shed a tear."

You can play Star Wars Galactic Racer using Amazon Luna, but only if you have a Prime membership. Unfortunately, the game can only be played via cloud streaming too, and Luna's cloud gaming services are only available in certain countries, mostly in North America and Europe. But, if you meet all the requirements, it's a good way to try out Galactic Racer, effectively for free as part of your existing Amazon Prime subscription, so here's how it works.

How to stream Galactic Racer using Amazon Luna and Prime

To play Galactic Racer using Amazon Luna, you need to have access to a device that can run Amazon Luna, such as a PC or mobile device; a stable and ideally high-speed internet connection; and live in and have a Prime subscription based in one of the following countries - these are the only countries where a Prime membership includes access to Amazon Luna's cloud gaming services:

• North America: Canada, United States
• Europe: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom

If you have an active Prime membership based in one of the above countries, all you need to do is open Amazon Luna, log in using your Prime account, and then find Star Wars Galactic Racer on the service. You can then press the 'play now' button, and the game will begin streaming to your PC.

When streaming Galactic Racer on Amazon Luna, you get access to everything in the game except for the various multiplayer modes. That means you can still play the runs-based single-player campaign, Scenarios which let you play a short tour to try different Racer Styles, and Arcade time trials. It's worth mentioning that, from messing around with it for a few minutes, the streaming quality on Amazon Luna is pretty good but can be low-res and stutter if your connection quality and internet speed isn't great.

Regardless, it's still a great opportunity to play most of Star Wars Galactic Racer without paying full price (it's effectively for free if you already have a Prime subscription too). Sink a few hours in and then you can decide whether to buy the full game for better performance and online multiplayer – although, as far as I'm aware, there's no way to transfer your progress.

If you're checking out the game on Amazon Luna, read my Star Wars Galactic Racer tips first to help you get ahead of the competition. Be sure you also know about the best Star Wars Galactic Racer speeder type and the best Star Wars Galactic Racer Favors.

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The hierarchy of power in the Glup Shittoverse is about to change as Star Wars: Galactic Racer's Biddy Blas is proving to be an incredibly obnoxious fan favorite.

Even as someone who saw The Rise of Skywalker and had my interest in anything Star Wars immediately leave my body due to how bad it was… I still love all of the little freaks found in the world. The Salacious B Crumb, Sy Snootles, Klaud. And thanks to the joys of podracing, Star Wars: Galactic Racer is prime Glup Shitto territory, with one of the all-time greats – racing legend Ben Quadinaros – returning to the fray.

However, even with the return of the most beloved and iconic Star Wars character ever conceived, a new contender to the throne has emerged in the form of an original character built specifically for Galactic Racer, Biddy Blas. Now, Mr. Blas has the appearance of a stout little guy with an alligator face wearing a sick racing helmet, which is already a banger, but his true claim to being peak comes when he speaks.

Mr. Biddy Blas speaks in Huttese in an incredibly obnoxious tone. You can't understand what this guy is saying without subtitles and you just know he's the worst. Hell, he can (and will) blow up your vehicle for fun if you let him. And yet there's something so entrancing about him.

Naturally, fans were quick to take to him, with one Twitter user saying "everyone meet Biddy Blas your new favourite Glup Shitto from Galactic Racer," while others are already answering him as their all-time favorite – calling him "the best Glup Shitto ever".

Meanwhile another says, "His voice is one of the greatest voices I've ever heard in a Star Wars thing," adding: "I have to imagine George Lucas would shed a tear faced with someone who perfectly understood his assignment for a change."

Blas is voiced by Richard Summers-Calvert, who had roles in 007 First Light and Total War: Warhammer 3, but may perhaps be better known as British indie wrestler Charles Crowley.

However, the gospel of Biddy Blas was foretold to us. Speaking to GamesRadar+ at Gamescom 2026, Nathaniel Daw, the narrative director at Fuse Games, said that he loves Biddy the most out of the cast, describing him as "a short, angry little alien who just gets really angry all the time. He's a bad loser and he's a worse winner." And I'd say that lines up with the hero we see today.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer Metacritic score makes it one of the best-rated Star Wars games of all time, beating every Battlefront title.

A good selection of Star Wars Galactic Racer Favors can make a big difference in how far your get on your tour. Each one offers a useful perk, be it increasing the number of Part slots you have to gaining Credits from taking down rivals. What's more is Favors get upgraded the more you use them and complete planets with them equipped, so good Favors can become great Favors later on. Some are so good that they practically never leave my build and should be unlocked as early as possible, while others are much less useful and too situational.

But, while you'll get a few Favors just by playing the game, some of them are much harder to unlock, requiring you to happen upon random opportunities to interact with characters during a tour and complete specific objectives. To help you make the most of them, I've explained what I think are the best Favors in Galactic Racer below, as well as how to unlock all 20 of them.

Best Favors in Star Wars Galactic Racer

Pretty much any three of the following Favors in Galactic Racer will be a big help in the tour ahead:

1. Gadgeteer: Increases the number of Parts slots for your Speeder and Parts on sale in Hibi's shop. Extra Part slots mean you can substantially enhance your speeder's racing capabilities and there are no downsides to having more options in Hibi's shop, increasing the chances of her stocking something you might really need.
2. Bloody Bounty: Adds extra options in Upgrade, Part, and Ability Packs from race rewards and Hibi's shop. More choice for each upgrade means you've got a much higher chance of getting something you need and perfecting your build.
3. Feet First: If you're not using a Racer Style that gives you an Ability to start with, this is arguably essential, providing you with Ability Packs early in your run to bolster your speeder's arsenal of tricks. And even if you have an Ability already, this can help you get upgrades for it to make it even more powerful.
4. Silent Defiance: Gives you a chance to earn an extra Part Pack upon finishing an event, which can be a huge boon, helping you get Parts quicker or upgrades for ones you already have, if you're lucky.
5. High Roller: Earn additional Credits from sidebets. As my Star Wars Galactic Racer tips say, there are very few occasions where you should avoid a sidebet, so making them even more profitable is extremely useful and means you can spend more at Hibi's shop.
6. Unassuming Prodigy: Start your tour with +2 Upgrades in a random speeder stat and three stats when this Favor is fully upgraded. Since it's random, you might not always get an ideal spread of stat upgrades but more upgrades at all is always good.
7. Fan Club: Finishing a racing event in the top three has a 20% chance to give you an extra Upgrade Pack. More Upgrades, and free ones at that, are never a bad thing. This Favour is well worth selecting if you can consistently get on the podium.

Honorable mentions go to Clandestine Aid and Mad Genius, which are very good for helping you out if you're really struggling to get through a tour, together providing you with extra League Tokens, Credits, and Crashes. You may also want to try a different speeder if you're struggling, so make sure you know about the best Galactic Racer vehicles.

How to unlock all Star Wars Galactic Racer Favors

You'll unlock most of these Favors just by playing through the campaign, but you need to make sure you're engaging with every aspect of a tour, especially since the activities you need to participate in to get these Favors appear randomly. Place lots of sidebets, accept head-to-head challenges, complete Field Tests, and enter Mystery Encounters whenever possible to maximize your chances of interacting with the right character for their Favor. Remember, you upgrade Favors by completing planets with them equipped during a tour.

Here's how you unlock all 20 Favors in Galactic Racer:

• Clandestine Aid: Complete Act 1 and qualify for the Galactic League.
• Mad Genius: Keep playing the campaign and Hibi will eventually give this Favor to you in the paddock – from my experience, I think she gives it to you after you've crashed at least 10 times.
• Gadgeteer: Complete 6 Time Trial Field Tests from Hibi.
• Feet First: Complete the first Tales of Podracing event from Sebulba.
• Old Greats: Complete all Tales of Podracing events from Sebulba.
• Team Vranki: In a single Tour, choose the Hutt as your Backer and then reach Derven Acos with a Satisfactory rating or better.
• Deeper Pockets: In a single Tour, choose the Broker as your Backer and then reach Derven Acos with a Satisfactory rating or better.
• Bloody Bounty: In a single tour, choose the Pirate as your Backer and then reach Derven Acos with a Satisfactory rating or better.
• Preferred Customer: Buy four Parts from the Scrap Dealers, Ori and Per.
• Smuggler's Hope: Successfully complete 6 Ramjet Field Tests from Soren Zaks.
• Fan Club: In a single Tour, keep placing sidebets against Lyren Shok, then beat him in a Head-to-Head Rival race when he challenges you.
• Racer Roulette: In Mystery Encounters featuring Biddy Blas, keep accepting his ever-increasing bets and then keep beating him in races. He will eventually give up and give you his Favour in the paddock.
• Victorious Loser: In a single Tour, keep placing sidebets against Griff Halloran, then beat him in a Head-to-Head Rival race when he challenges you.
• Unassuming Prodigy: Successfully complete 2 Precision Field Tests from Goli and 02-R0.
• Silent Defiance: In a single Tour, keep placing sidebets against Sen Fira, then beat them in a Head-to-Head Rival race when they challenge you.
• Underhanded Upperhand: During Mystery Encounters, pay for Malis Vazosk's mercenary services three times. On the third time, you'll unlock his Favour.
• Second Chance: During Mystery Encounters, apply Katja Mox's handicaps and complete planets with them equipped.
• Family Legacy: In a single Tour, keep placing sidebets against Ary Quill, then beat her in a Head-to-Head Rival race when she challenges you.
• High Roller: In a single Tour, keep placing sidebets against Fola Kanjen, then beat her in a Head-to-Head Rival race when she challenges you.
• Brutal Calm: Successfully complete two Battling Field Tests from Nik Skandaro.

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Keeping these Star Wars Galactic Racer tips in mind will help you quickly become an expert racer on your Tours through the Galactic League. The chaotic racing means the game can be quite brutal at first, especially if you're not used to the arcade racing in things like Burnout and Need For Speed. Galactic Racer is also a runs-based game with roguelike mechanics and risk/reward woven into every aspect. That all means it can be a lot to take in, so these Galactic Racer tips aim to set you up nicely with basics.

1. Focus on surviving each race rather than winning

The racing in Galactic Racer is ridiculously fast and dangerous, and it doesn't help that the speeders can feel a bit clunky at first. There's a learning curve but the more you play, the more you'll improve. That's both in terms of your driving skill and from permanent stat upgrades for your speeders, as well as Star Wars Galactic Racer Favours, and Racer Styles. Just remember that crashing and wrecking is a normal part of the runs-based format of the game – you aren't going to win every race right from the start, so just focus on surviving to the finish line!

2. Upgrade Cornering and Resilience

This applies for both the Tour-based Upgrade Packs and the permanent ones you can unlock with Tuning Points but focusing on these two stats really helps when you're learning the ropes of Star Wars Galactic Racer. Improved Cornering means you can turn faster and more tightly, while Resilience makes your speeder less likely to suffer malfunctions and better at resisting dangerous hazards. Overall, you'll find flying around at high speeds more forgiving.

Remember that you can spend two Tuning Points at the start of a Tour to respec your speeder's permanent upgrades points – my guide on the best Star Wars Galactic Racer speeders has some pointers on how to spend your Tuning Points.

3. Use shortcuts whenever possible

Races in Star Wars Galactic Racer are won by those that make the best use of a circuit's shortcuts, not necessarily by those going for the most takedowns or pure speed. They can be tricky to spot, so pay attention whenever a rival racer goes off the main track and you might be able to follow them for a shorter route – or remember it for the next lap. Additionally, you can turn in mid-air quite a lot, which can allow you to cut some corners massively by flying around them after taking a ramp at high speed. But be aware that many shortcuts are dangerous, usually being very narrow and featuring hazards like overheating lava flows. Sometimes there are even shortcuts within shortcuts!

4. Use your Ramjet and Afterburners responsibly

Your Ramjet needs to be used carefully for the obvious reason that it can overheat and explode your speeder, but also because when you stop using it, it must cool off before it can be used again. Afterburners, meanwhile, can be switched on and off as often as you like, so long as you have fuel That means you need to quite carefully balance how you use the two to maintain high speeds.

5. Complete your pre-race checks

Each of these cheat code-like inputs you enter correctly in the five-second window offers some sort of benefit. For several abilities, like the Concussion Mine, Ion Shot, Surge, and Shield, this is just amplifying your first activation of that Ability, but other abilities have much more useful effects. Priming your Afterburners and Vent respectively ensures you start the race with full fuel and your Ramjet ready. Status Scrubber massively increases the size of the Perfect Start bar. And if you've got Autopilot installed, prime this ability first as it'll automatically prime all your others for you.

6. Don't worry about getting a Perfect Start

They're quite hard to pull off in Star Wars Galactic Racer compared to Mario Kart games as the timing is very strict, but the boost isn't especially powerful either, only helping you get off the line a tiny bit quicker. Regardless, it's still useful to know how to do one since some Parts trigger effects with a Perfect Start. My advice is to go full throttle just after the 1 in the "3, 2, 1, go" countdown, but the exact timing varies between speeder types, so you will just have to get a feel for it.

7. Practice in Arcade or Scenarios

If you want to hone your racing skills outside of campaign Tours, time trials in the Arcade menu are a good option. These let you practice flying various speeders with no pressure from other drivers. You can also try Scenarios which let you play a short five-event Tour using a set build, letting you try a Racer Style without committing to a full Tour.

8. Spend your Credits in Hibi's shop

Whenever you're in the paddock upon landing on a planet, always visit Hibi's shop and buy something from it. She offers a good selection of Parts and there are several Favors that even enhance her offerings in terms of quantity, quality, and discounts. Even if she has no Parts worth buying (though you can pay 250 Credits for a restock), it's worth buying an Upgrade Pack for 1,500 Credits to put an extra point in one of your stats. These upgrades all add up by the time you reach the final races of your Tour!

9. Plan before choosing your next Tour event

When you begin a Tour, you can see all the branching paths of events across every planet, and it's crucial that you don't just look at what your next event is. For your current planet, make sure you choose a path that offers a good mix of events to help you get a variety of speeder upgrades, setting you up nicely for what's ahead. Bear in mind that diverging paths can also remain forked when heading to the next planet, which might severely limit your options. For that reason, it's a good idea to look ahead to the next planet, and sometimes even beyond that to choose the events you want to take on.

10. Get at least one Ability early on in your run

Upgrade Packs and Parts are very important for enhancing your speeder, but most Abilities in Galactic Racer can make a massive difference to your race. I strongly recommend picking a Racer Style that provides an Ability for free at the start of a Tour or choosing Sebulba's Feet First Favour to get given an Ability after your first race event (you can also buy an Ability from Hibi's shop and Field Tests have a chance to provide an Ability Pack). I like having at least two Abilities, with one being a more offensive or defensive option like Ion Shot or Shield, and the other being speed-focused, such as Vent or Surge.

11. Don't sleep on Autopilot

Autopilot seems like an odd Ability to choose since it does the racing for you. I ignored it for a long time for that reason but found it's incredibly useful. Deploy it at the right time and it can carry you through very tricky sections of a track at high speed, sometimes even taking shortcuts. You also remain in full control of your other Abilities, so you can target enemies with Ion Shot or help the Autopilot go as fast as possible with Surge. Just be aware that it's not perfect and can still crash!

12. Focus your build around a few keywords

Star Wars Galactic Racer's speeder Parts heavily revolve around a wide selection of buffs, debuffs, status effects, and specific triggers. The best builds are the ones that remain focused on a narrower playstyle and synergize well rather than trying to do a bit of everything. I personally like using the Ramjet, so anything that buffs the Ramjet's cooling and power is good to have, as well as Parts that trigger effects when Redlining.

And you obviously shouldn't be getting Parts that have little to no effect. There's no point choosing Overcharge or Energy-focused Parts or Battery upgrades if your build is very light on Abilities, for example.

13. Always place sidebets

Once you reach Act 2 of the campaign, you'll unlock the ability to place sidebets and, unless you have no Credits to spend, there is no reason why you shouldn't bet on every race. Chaotic racing means anyone can finish anywhere, so you should ignore the predicted placements and always go for the middle or high bet. The only exception to this is bets against Kestar Bool. He's always very fast and his bets are very expensive, so losing can be costly.

As well as making some extra money, sidebets are also how you unlock some great Favors. Win enough sidebets against a particular racer and they might become your rival, eventually challenging you to a head-to-head race. Win this and you'll permanently unlock their Favor for you to choose at the start of a Tour.

14. Avoid the acid on Sentinel I as much as possible

This is by far the worst track hazard in all of Star Wars Galactic Racer. Touching an acid puddle results in an immediate System Malfunction and chokes your Ramjet, and spending too long in an acid puddle causes your speeder to explode. The more you touch the acid, the more you also risk falling into a death spiral of Systems Malfunctions and Critical Malfunctions, leading to lots of Faulty Parts. If you don't wreck out, you're in for some costly repairs. If you're struggling with Sentinel I, I highly recommend having the Shield and/or Status Scrubber Abilities equipped to negate the acid's effects.

15. Don't worry about completing your Backer Contract objectives

I found it's actually quite rare to consistently place on the podium in races and complete your backer's objective, often resulting in a 'satisfactory' rating from them. This is largely because some of the objectives are completely incompatible with winning a race – spending time in last place, for example – and that you can only progress these objectives in Races or Eliminators, so choosing too many Field Tests and Mystery Encounters can make objectives impossible to achieve.

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The best Star Wars Galactic Racer vehicle is mostly down to personal preference as Landspeeders, Speeder Bikes, and Skim Speeders all feel quite different to pilot - podracers also show up in Galactic Racer but aren't one of the regular speeder options as you only fly them in set moments.

Each speeder type has their own strengths, weaknesses, and unique drifting manoeuvres that have a noticeable effect on how you race, so it's important to know how each one works and how best to spend your Tuning Points on permanent upgrades so that you can get the most out of them. Below you'll find a breakdown of all three vehicles in Galactic Racer and how they stack up against each other.

Best speeder type in Star Wars Galactic Racer

Here's how I rank the three speeders in Star Wars Galactic Racer, so that you can gauge which one might be right for you:

1. Landspeeder: Large, stable, relatively robust, and handles corners well enough, especially with its standard Drift manoeuvre. It's the easiest and most intuitive of all the repulsorcraft to fly and can see you all the way through to the end with the right upgrades. Spread your permanent upgrades across all six speeder stats fairly evenly for a balanced but adaptable starting build for each tour, though you may want to put more points into Cornering, Afterburners, and Drift for great handling.
2. Speeder Bike: Small, fragile, and twitchy but with good acceleration, bikes are the nippiest of the speeders. Their regular turning is awful, but Kinetic Burst helps you perform sharp and snappy turns with a burst of speed. They can be difficult to control but master using Kinetic Burst and you can race ahead of the competition. To mitigate some of the drawbacks of Speeder Bikes and make them more forgiving, I recommend putting upgrade points into Cornering and Resilience, but you could also play to its strengths and focus on Afterburners and Drift.
3. Skim Speeder: Maintains high speeds with smooth and wide cornering which can be tricky on certain tracks, though turning on a Knife Edge allows for sharper cornering. I found the Skim Speeder to be the most difficult to pilot as it requires you to take wider racing lines to maintain speed. That takes some getting used to, but it doesn't make the speeder bad by any means. Put permanent upgrade points into Drift and Cornering to play to its strengths and put at least a couple into Afterburners to help with its acceleration and boost.

It's important to bear in mind that there is an element of personal preference when it comes to choosing the best speeder type too, so while I like the default Landspeeder the most, I still highly recommend that you unlock the Speeder Bike and Skim Speeder to give them a shot.

And your success on a tour isn't just down to your chosen vehicle. Make sure you have a good selection of Star Wars Galactic Racer Favors active to get as many advantages as possible. I've also laid out a bunch of Galactic Racer tips to help you win the league.

How to unlock the Speeder Bike and Skim Speeder in Star Wars Galactic Racer

To unlock the Speeder Bike and Skim Speeder, you just need to earn sufficient Tuning Points and then spend them on the speeder type you want to unlock on the Vehicle Select screen at the start of a Tour:

• Speeder Bike = 10 Tuning Points to unlock
• Skim Speeder = 20 Tuning Points to unlock
• Earn Tuning Points by finishing races:
  • Finish a Race in any position to get 1 Tuning Point
  • Finish an Eliminator in the top 3 to get 4 Tuning Points

So, make sure you pick plenty of Races and Eliminators during your Tours to quickly rack up Tuning Points. Then you'll be able to unlock the rest of the speeders and pick your favorite at the start of every Tour. Tuning Points are also used to permanently upgrade the stats of your speeders, so be sure to level them up between Tours all the way to Level 15 too for permanent improvements.

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer's Metacritic score is one of the highest ever for a Star Wars game, beating out the Cal Kestis-led Jedi games and every Battlefront.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer reviews are in, and it turns out the critics yearn for Glup Shitto's and podracing-adjacent motorsports in the Star Wars realm. Over on Metacritic, the game has nabbed a score of 88 after 50 reviews, which places it as the fifth-best rated Star Wars game – alongside Star Wars-themed tables for Pinball FX and ZEN Pinball, which share the score.

It's behind Knights of the Old Republic, Dark Forces 2, Rogue Squadron 2, and Jedi Outcast. This score also gives it a higher rating than every Star Wars film aside from the original too, for what it's worth.

In GamesRadar+'s Star Wars: Galactic Racer review, guides editor Will Sawyer awarded the game four stars out of five, saying, "Star Wars: Galactic Racer brings the carnage-filled arcade racing of the 2000s into the modern day, with slick and exhilarating high-speed racing that mixes perfectly with a run-based format and roguelike elements."

Elsewhere the game has garnered high praise with full marks from the likes of Eurogamer, Mirror Gaming, Giant Bomb, and Radio Times all giving the game five stars, while the rest of the reviews are considered "Positive" with two 7/10 scores and a 68/100, which is still pretty good going.

If anything, in an era where Star Wars in film has been dropping the ball for a while now, and some of the TV series have been real stinkers (and the good ones have been canceled), Zero Company and now Galactic Racer have at least got your back if you want something good from the franchise. Of course, if the game had a way to romance Ben Quadinaros and featured some steamy scenes with the podracing legend, I reckon we'd have seen the highest-rated game in history.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer is a "sports movie" story set after Return of the Jedi because it mirrors the real-life post-WW2 motorsports boom.

Star Wars is full of vile scum and hideous villains worthy of punishment, but perhaps none have a face more punchable than the arch-rival of Star Wars: Galactic Racer, Kestar Bool. He's the current champion of the recently established Galactic League and is a truly detestable one at that. A whinging, arrogant rich kid with an undeniable talent for tearing up the track who really needs to be taken down a peg or two.

The moment the game's faceless protagonist, Shade, meets him was all the motivation I needed, but I didn't realise the road to challenging him would be more demanding and thrilling than I imagined. This is what I've felt has been missing from big-budget racing games of the last few years – high-octane action and real challenges to get invested in – and Star Wars: Galactic Racer delivers on both in bucketloads.

Feel, don’t think

Star Wars: Galactic Racer feels sublime to play, and that becomes apparent after just a few races in my campaign journey. Given that developer Fuse Games was founded by five former Criterion Games developers – the studio behind the likes of Burnout and several Need For Speed games – it's hardly a surprise either.

Unburdened by tyres and petrol engines, the driving model allows the three repulsorcraft types – all-rounder landspeeders, nippy speeder bikes, and fluid skim speeders – to feel extremely slick, gliding around corners in wide arcs or sharply banking in at speed with no substantial effort on the controls. Once you master advanced drifting manoeuvres, the brakes often feel optional, so Galactic Racer is more Mario Kart than Gran Turismo in that regard.

There's superb tactility to the game, particularly in its pre-race check sequence. You've got to rapidly input cheat code-like button sequences (one of the Auto-Pilot ability inputs is actually the famous Konami code) within five seconds to prime your afterburners, activate any abilities you've picked up on your current Tour, and start your engine. Each button press is accompanied by satisfying bleep-bloops and, on the PS5's DualSense controller, there's even a nice bit of resistance on the trigger, like turning a key in a car, to start your engine – and I say that as someone who usually turns off adaptive triggers at the first opportunity.

Admittedly, it's a lot to take in at first. The high-speed racing feels both awesome and terrifying as a novice racer as you go through plenty of butt-clenching moments that result in narrowly making it through a series of tight corners, unscathed if you're lucky, or going out in a dramatic fireball. Galactic Racer at least makes each crash look spectacular while you consider your errors, with engine parts and crumpled bodywork blasting across the track in slow-motion and from multiple angles.

But, the more you learn the tracks, improve your racecraft, and push the limits of your speeder, the closer you get to entering a racing flow state, feeling the Force as you fly right on the edge and use everything in your arsenal, no matter how underhanded, to beat your opponents to the finish line. Success in Galactic Racer means giving it your full focus at all times. That's not going to be to everyone's tastes for an arcade racer, but when you come out on top, or even just barely survive a race, it makes for the most satisfying and immersive racing game I've played.

Star Tours

The smooth and speedy driving model is what makes the racing exciting in moment-to-moment gameplay, but it's the roguelike-inspired risk and reward mechanics and run-based format that kept me coming back. These permeate most modes in the game, including short but intense multiplayer tours, but are most prominent in the three-act campaign.

Rather than following the usual career mode blueprint of racing through various series/cups/wristbands until you become the ultimate champion of all racing, Galactic Racer's campaign plays out across run-based tours, where you pick from branching paths to decide which race events to tackle. Every four events moves the Galactic League to another planet with its own array of circuits and hazards, and there's time for you to explore the paddock and buy upgrades.

All the while you need to avoid losing your League Token or getting Wrecked (by crashing three times) to eventually reach the tour's final race and hopefully emerge victorious, ready for the next Act checkpoint and a new tour. Otherwise, you've got to attempt the whole tour all over again. It sounds unforgiving, but it's a genre mashup that works incredibly well to the point that I'm surprised it hasn't been done in a more mainstream fashion before.

Events are all very quick, making for a brief and moreish adrenaline rush. Each type offers its own rewards with the best being locked behind the most dangerous that can easily end your tour in flames. Eliminator races offer the best rewards – high Credit payouts, two Upgrade points, and a high-quality Part that can substantially buff your speeder – but if you can't battle your way into the top three before time runs out, your League Token is lost and your tour is over instantly.

Mystery Encounters, meanwhile, avoid races altogether as Shade is approached by one or more of the many colorful characters in the Galactic League paddock. You won't know what will happen until it's too late, from being offered faulty but powerful parts by monkey-like mechanic Hibi or getting a cut of gambling profits, to getting extorted for Credits under threat of having my ride sabotaged.

My favorite of these is when top-tier 'Glup Shitto' Biddy Blas – a noisy, irritating, and childish rival racer – offers me a powerful speeder part, claiming it's part of his culture to offer such gifts. Two races later, my speeder violently explodes the moment the race starts as Blas gleefully laughs over the radio. "Biddy Blas strikes again!" Thanks, Biddy.

Potential detonations aside, these events, and the parts and upgrades they provide, mean every tour is full of interesting choices to make regarding your build and how you progress. Depending on the speeder type and Racer Style you choose at the start of your tour, you may want to spec into boosting your afterburners or ramjet or maximize your ability usage to keep your rivals in check. Galactic Racer forces you to be adaptable, but also seek out synergies as you make the most of its partially randomized rewards.

As a big fan of the ramjet, I love getting upgrades that boost its overall power and efficiency but especially love the ones that trigger effects when you push it to its redlining limit. And the blaring alarms don’t bother me when I've got the Vent and Surge abilities equipped, allowing me to instantly purge heat to keep it going almost endlessly and fly even faster. That is of course until I inevitably go too fast and end up misjudging a turn, colliding with a barrier at over 600 or 700kph.

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer's tracks are highly technical, filled with winding turns, obvious and obscure shortcuts, and dangerous hazards that must be effectively used or avoided to stay competitive. Ando Prime's freezing temperatures may keep your engines cool, but spend too long in the cold and your steering will freeze up. Risky manoeuvres are essential to success and immensely gratifying to pull off.

Much like real racetracks, each planets' various circuits are made up of sections of a wider course. While that gives the environment a singular identity, it can mean individual circuits blur together a bit. Because they share common elements, I'd struggle to tell you what makes Jakku's War Fields, Giants' Graveyard, or Debris Dunes distinct, even after playing for over 30 hours and racing on them many times. Only a handful of individual courses truly sing, such as Sentinel I's Acid Ring, a small ring-shaped track – half-banked, half-flat – around an acid lake. The simplicity essentially makes it Galactic Racer's answer to Mario Kart's Baby Park, the site of some of the most chaotic and dangerous races I've played.

Still, I know which planets I like – Jakku and Lantaana's winding circuits with plenty of elevation changes are thrilling, while Sentinel I's acid puddles and Crait's terrifyingly tight crystal tunnels can be tough to deal with. But, with only six to race on, the tours you go on don't quite live up to the Galactic League name. I'd love to have seen something closer to a Formula 1 calendar, with fewer tracks per planet but greater variety – a Monaco on Mustafar or a Silverstone on Scarif, for example.

This becomes especially noticeable in Act 3, a gauntlet that runs through all six planets in the same order every time. Not only does that mean it can get repetitive, but it also starts to go against the run-based format by elongating the otherwise snappy tours I'd been enjoying up to this point. Additionally, podracing challenges appear between each planet – which are exhilarating, but saddle the tour with a comparatively brutal level of challenge since they act as another point of failure. "This is not where the fun begins", I think as Ben Quadinaros steals my League Token.

I'm more here for the action and sense of character than the story, but, thanks to an abrupt campaign ending, I'm left wanting more from Galactic Racer's narrative. Still, even with those annoyances, I'm impressed by how the tours add genuine stakes to these blistering races.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer feels like a proud rebel when compared to the current racing game landscape. It forgoes deep simulation mechanics, vast car selections, even larger open worlds, and live-service guff in favor of frenetic racing that feels fantastic, an honest to goodness story that fits perfectly into the Star Wars canon, and some proper friction.

That all means it oozes character, expertly modernizing the arcade racing of the 2000s for 2026 and putting risk and reward at the forefront, which is what racing is all about. And as Fuse Games' debut, it's bordering on a perfect start.

Star Wars: Galactic Racer was reviewed on PS5 with a code provided by the publisher.

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Playground Games has seemingly shut down rumors that Forza Horizon 6's PS5 release has been delayed by reiterating that it's a 2026 release.

Last month rumors emerged that Forza Horizon 6's PS5 release had been quietly pushed to 2027, with The Verge reporter Tom Warren saying he's not expecting to see it release in 2026, and there was a bit of fire alongside the smoke as it was corroborated by IGN. Given we're rapidly approaching the end of the year and the AAA games industry is practically abandoning November thanks to GTA 6, the lack of announcement is questionable, but Playground Games has seemingly addressed these rumors.

The Forza website was updated with a blog post about the latest update, focusing on British Automotive, which introduces the likes of the 2025 Bentley Continental GT Speed and 2006 Vauxhall Astra VXR to the game. Plus, there's a new Drift Attack challenge added to the game with this update.

However, right at the bottom of the lengthy blog post, Playground acknowledged the PS5 version, saying, "If you’re planning your trip to Discover Japan on PlayStation 5, stay tuned! Forza Horizon 6 will be releasing on PS5 later this year," while sending players to the Wishlist page on PlayStation.

While not a concrete release date or much of a clue as to what the release plans actually are, this seems to be Playground acknowledging the rumor mill. Granted, I don't think this means a delay to 2027 isn't possible, as we've seen plenty of times that games can be delayed close to the finish line. However, with how crowded September and October are, and the monolith of GTA 6, it's probably best not to expect to see Forza Horizon 6 on PS5 until December.

Forza Horizon 6 has its own community villain in the form of a driver who's griefing everyone across Japan

All the best Star Wars stories – whether in movies, games, or books – all have one thing in common: they all draw from sources and inspirations beyond the franchise itself. The developers behind Star Wars: Galactic Racer seem to recognize that as well, as they're building the game around a sports movie-style narrative that takes inspiration from the real-life post-World War II motorsports boom.

"We had an idea of the kind of sports story that we wanted to tell within the universe," creative director Kieran Crimmins tells GamesRadar+ in an interview at Gamescom. "Because we were very confident in that, we then take that to our partners at Lucasfilm Games and say, 'where would this fit and make sense?'"

That's how the game's post-Return of the Jedi setting was decided upon, with racers taking up the sport in the wake of the Galactic Civil War. "The key reference that we came upon was this post-war sports boom that happened in the real world as well. All these pilots with all these skills started doing hot rodding [and] drag racing, and there was this boom of entertainment post-war. That was the perfect place to frame the story."

Star Wars was itself influenced by plenty of World War II films, and seeing that sort of influence wrap around with real post-war history helping shape a fictional post-war story is fascinating to see. Of course, arcade racing games aren't often known for in-depth narratives, but the devs at Fuse Games want the story here to make the racing itself feel more dramatic and impactful.

"What story will make every single race feel more exciting? [What story] will make every single character in the race be worth smashing into the wall? If I'm going to get this moment of 'I just crossed someone at the line,' I need to care about the person I just crossed the line with, so that those feel far more rewarding," Crimmins explains.

That's also how the team built the game's big antagonist. "I really wanted a despicable villain that would be really fun to beat, and that's how we constructed Kestar Bool," music and narrative director Nat Daw explains. "Someone who is arrogant and actually good at racing. He's a terrible person, and he's incredibly annoying, but he's also really, really skilled as a racer."

In other words, he's a "classic sports villain," Daw says, and that concept was "back in the original pitch. I think, especially in the sports movie genre, the satisfaction of going against characters like that is always something I really, really love, so I really wanted to bring that to the Star Wars galaxy."

Star Wars: Galactic Racer has the best crashes I've seen since Burnout, but with custom builds that incentivize checking yourself before you wreck yourself.

Can we ban brands from using the word “ecosystem” when they announce new sim racing gear, please? At least until they can be trusted to use it responsibly. I’ve played with a fair few of the best racing wheels for PC, and it feels as though every time new gear comes along it’s with the promise of an expanding range of extras and add-ons “in the future”.

“Start with the basics and expand over time as your racing habits evolve and your wallet recovers,” that sort of thing. Which is great, in theory. It’s a logical plan for both company and player, but the problem is this never seems to be a promise anyone keeps.

There is an emerging exception to the trend though, and it’s from an unlikely place: Nacon.

Likely known to most people for its range of controllers and peripherals, including the excellent Revolution X Unlimited, it launched its dedicated sim racing brand with some success last year. The Revosim RS Pure bundle: a 9Nm direct drive wheelbase, round wheel, and load cell pedals for £699/$799, undercut plenty of the established names on price while largely matching them on build quality and performance. It was a strong debut in isolation, but it also followed the ecosystem script with immediate talk of not just what was here now, but what was to come in the future.

Arguably, Nacon was even more brazen than others, as the wheelbase shipped with connection points on the back labelled “shifter” and “handbrake”, but that hardware didn't exist yet and didn’t even have a release date at the time. Just a promise that it was on the way before the end of 2025. It wasn’t a promise Nacon kept initially, but the best part of a year later, backup did arrive, and what landed is actually rather good. The Revosim RS Pure Hybrid Shifter, Load Cell Handbrake, and Clutch Pedal filled in those empty slots on the back of the wheelbase and completed the initial picture.

But this is territory we’ve been in before.

Turtle Beach made it this far with the VelocityOne range and has gone MIA since. The Race wheelbase arrived in early 2024, and it too was complemented by a Multi-Shift shifter and handbrake. Then, eighteen months on, a second wheelbase joined the range, and the F-RX Formula wheel arrived with it. Things were looking good. The F-RX in particular is lovely; in fact, it’s one of the nicer wheel rims I've used and was proof that Turtle Beach had the know-how to compete. But since then, nothing. Turtle Beach's next round of simulation hardware announcements went to flight sim gear instead. Racing got two good years, and seemingly that is that.

Thrustmaster is guilty too, albeit in a different way. It’s a major name in sim racing and has kept releasing hardware on a pretty consistent cadence. The problem is the EVO Racing Hub was entirely pitched as the start of something, a hub designed to take an assortment of swappable rims and modules. I tested it at launch in early 2024, and both the hub and 32R Leather wheel were solid. Thrustmaster told me more rims were coming soon and the little pictures on the box suggested the same, but it wasn’t until a couple of months ago that two more rims and a paddle set quietly appeared on the website.

And that lands us at Nacon's newest move: the Aston Martin Aramco F1 Team customization kit for the RS Pure. It's aimed at a completely different kind of driver than the brand’s recent shifter and handbrake; it’s formula racing rather than rally or GT, and it’s not a huge headline piece, either. In an RPG it’s a side quest, but it’s an interesting one that fleshes out the world with depth and interest. The kit includes a new formula-style rim, carbon fiber shifter paddles, and a few Aston Martin-themed design touches, along with some gloves if that’s your thing.

It’s all good gear. I ran it mostly in F1 25 with some time in Forza Horizon 6, and found the open-wheel shape much more to my taste than the round wheel the RS Pure ships with. The carbon paddles are a nice upgrade, and even as a McLaren man, I liked the added flair of British Racing Green and shocking, highlighter yellow. None of this makes the Aston Martin kit essential. But it's well-made and adds an extra dimension for a specific kind of racer; it adds choice to the range, and that’s the point of an ecosystem of compatible gear. Not everything has to be a big new addition. Just keep iterating, keep adding, show me this is actually a range you’re supporting and that it’s worth me investing in and building my setup around.

Nacon is on to something with the Revosim range, but the real test now is what comes next and when.

We’ve already been told what’s coming and they’re marquee pieces. The RS Initiale and RS Lite, new mid-range and entry-level Direct Drive bundles that bring RevoSim to console for the first time. That brings another layer of complexity because cross-platform compatibility is a minefield and Nacon hasn’t yet detailed what from the existing range will work where. But it’s also a huge expansion point, and if Revosim can continue this momentum and successfully land the jump from PC to console, then we might finally have a sim racing ecosystem worthy of the word.

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The thing about Star Wars vehicles is the best bit might be when they blow up. Think of all those TIE Fighters hitting the walls of the Death Star trenches, or those Stormtroopers with the boxy helmets in the forests of Endor, discovering they have a fatal redwood allergy, or basically anyone driving a podracer who isn't either a horrible wrinkly frogman or a cheery wee lad with a big future in the Space Fascism business. That's still true of Star Wars: Galactic Racer.

Climbing into the driving seat of a Star Wars racing game – and one that comes from Fuse Games, a new studio built by people who previously worked at Criterion, developer of car-crash spectacular Burnout… Well, you'd better believe I'm looking forward to some good old-fashioned explosions.

Technological terror

On this front, Star Wars Galactic Racer does not disappoint. Your vehicle is equipped with two separate boost systems, one of which – the ramjet – is dedicated to smashing into other drivers, sending them off the road and into canyon walls. When you do, you get a takedown cam, just like in Burnout, the wreckage tumbling in gorgeous slow-motion.

Of course, sometimes it's you getting taken down, or just missing your target and slamming into that wall. And sometimes you just hold the ramjet for too long and it overheats and your speeder blows up, right there on the track. And obviously, in all of these cases, by 'you' I mean 'me'.

I crash a lot in Galactic Racer. And while I can still appreciate the slow-motion spectacle that follows, it also hurts – because this is a roguelike. You're allowed three crashes per race, which initially seems generous, but once those lives are all used up, you'll be kicked out of the Galactic Racing League, and have to try again on the next tour.

Each tour takes you across multiple planets, starting on The Force Awakens' Jakku, with a different set of events each time, picked through on a Slay The Spire-style branching map. Along with your standard races, these events also include 'Field Test' time trials, which I don't yet see the appeal of, and Eliminators, which I quickly learn to fear, and love.

Eliminators are like Mario Kart World's Knockout Tour on Spice, where you need to worry not only about crashing out but also your position – find yourself at the back of the pack as you pass the next checkpoint and that's it, yerr out!

As in all the best roguelike games, the blow of starting over is softened by the excitement of trying out a different build, improvised together from whatever comes your way. After each race you're offered a choice of three stat upgrades – you might choose to improve your vehicle's handling or resilience to bumps, or just put it all into an overpowered ramjet.

There's a fourth option, too: skip the upgrade entirely, and just take the credits, to spend at a merchant down the road. And this may well be worth considering, since shops are your best chance to gain parts and, best of all, abilities.

Parts provide passive buffs, giving you a speed boost for landing a jump perfectly, perhaps, or extending how long it takes for your ramjet to overheat and explode. Abilities are gadgets, from energy shields to ion weapons, that you fire off manually and refill on a cooldown. It's a bit like getting to strap a triple red-shell to your kart chassis, permanently.

So now, a few races into a League tour, I've got a speeder I really love, tuned just the way I want it – and I'm down to my third and final life, again. One more crash and I'll lose it all.

My vehicle is in 'systems critical' semi-shutdown, all the holograph readouts are flashing red, the ramjet is disabled. My palms are sweating, my jaw is clenched so tight I can practically hear the dentist telling me off. Not because I care about winning – as long as it's not an Eliminator, your position in a race only affects the rewards you'll get, so I'm happy to be overtaken as long as they keep a nice safe distance. I just want to survive.

All of which is, as far as I'm concerned, utterly brilliant. With the speed everything moves at, the tightness of the track's chokepoints and the pack jostling for position, racing feels dangerous. Just as it should, when you're on the back of a speeder bike, the kind that led so many Scout Troopers to a woody end, or in a driver's seat tethered to two enormous jet engines by some skinny bits of cable. Now that, to misquote the young Vader, is podracing.

So wizard

The only downside of Galactic Racer's single-player roguelike mode, as far as I can see, is that it also attempts to have a story. You play as Shade, the least interesting racer in the entire League – a roster that includes ex-TIE pilot Griff Halloran, making a cameo from the Star Wars Resistance TV show, but also Biddy Blas, a permanently outraged toothy croc-mole creature, and Nik Skandaro, who sounds like he should be in a '90s funk metal band but is actually a kind of pale Darth Maul. (It's still very weird to me that there's an entire species of Maul-alikes, but there we go.)

The helmeted, uncommunicative Shade, meanwhile, is basically a vehicle with legs. This wouldn't matter, but between races the game is keen to fill you in on their backstory. This involves a grudge with League champion Kestar Bool, a deeply posho-coded alien bad'un from a family that runs Shade's home planet and holds their people in indentured servitude.

It's a righteous motivation, for sure, but I'm not convinced this is the right game to tell that tale. It's provided as Shade's reason for joining the League and winning races, but why do you need an excuse? Racing is fun, and winning is great. Even better, in fact, than surviving!

For those of us coveting the galaxy's far, far more interesting racers, though, there's some good news: you can play as any of them in multiplayer, all coming with their own set of built-in abilities. The aforementioned Top Gun-coded Griff Halloran specializes in afterburner – the other, non-ramjet type of boost – while my boy Biddy Blas is a certified Firestarter, shooting flames from his exhaust and happily setting himself on fire.

From these starting points, though, there's still plenty of room to create a custom build. Multiplayer tours are six-event series, where the first five are just a way of earning upgrades to give you the best possible opportunity in the grand finale.

Developer Fuse Games calls this the "build chase", and winning races isn't the only way of getting the good stuff. Before each race you pick one of three Backer Contracts, an extra challenge that will reward you for doing as many jumps as you can, say, or spamming the ramjet. There's also the opportunity to gamble on your finishing position, with riskier bets yielding tastier rewards. So, do you play it safe, only betting that you'll come in the top three-quarters, or cockily back yourself to earn a podium place?

With upgrades being flung out much quicker than in single-player, this condenses down the one-run customization pleasures of the roguelike mode into something shorter, where – because whatever you've built will be thrown away eventually – it's entirely possible to end with a game-breaking combo of abilities. And with the added double-or-nothing deliciousness, and the player rivalries it encourages, those sweaty-palmed pleasures remain intact, even without the knowledge that you could crash and burn out of the entire League.

Check out our best Star Wars games ranking for more galaxy-defining games to play!

Hirosaki Castle in Forza Horizon 6 is in the Takashiro Region, and you need to take a photo with it for one of this week's winter challenges in the Italian Exotics Festival Playlist Series. While the castle grounds are quite easy to find on the map, you've still got to find the castle, and be driving a Classic Sports Car to complete the photo challenge. With that, I've explained everything you need to know to complete this Forza Horizon 6 challenge, including the location of Hirosaki Castle.

Forza Horizon 6 Hirosaki Castle location

Hirosaki Castle is in the eastern half of the Takshiro Region of Forza Horizon 6, almost directly north of Soni Circuit. On the map, the castle grounds are quite easy to spot, appearing as a large grey-brown rectangle with an orange road and white road surrounding it. The Hirosaki Castle itself is the white square in the southeast corner of the grounds.

To complete the photo challenge, you need to snap a photo of a Classic Sports Car with the castle itself. You can use Forza Horizon 6 fast travel to reach the road surrounding the castle, but then you need to find one of the ways into the grounds and make your way to the castle.

You also need to be in a Classic Sports Car, so open the 'Change Car' menu, press Y to bring up the Filters menu, then toggle on Classic Sports Cars under the Car Type header. Close the Filters menu and then choose an appropriate car from your garage. Obviously if you don't have any Classic Sports Cars, you'll need to buy one. You could also drive the 1971 Nissan Skyline 200GT-R, which is one of the Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds.

Once you've got the right car and are in position, open Photo Mode and snap a quickshot with RB to complete the Photo Challenge. For your efforts, you'll get two Festival Playlist points for the winter season and a White Suit for your Drivatar. Remember, like the Forza Horizon 6 Hokubu Treasure Hunt for this winter season, you've only got until 2:30pm UTC on August 6 to complete this challenge!

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The Forza Horizon 6 Hokubu Treasure Hunt for the winter season of the Italian Exotics Festival Playlist Series is in quite an obscure place on the map, with the photo clue giving you very little to go off. If you don't know where those big hay bale scarecrows can be found in Forza Horizon 6, then you're going to have a tough time scouring the region for this treasure chest. To help you find and smash it, I've laid out the exact location of this Treasure Hunt in Forza Horizon 6 below.

Forza Horizon 6 Hokubu Treasure Hunt location

The Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt chest in the Hokubu is found on the northwestern side of the Shikisai-No-Aka flower fields, which is roughly in the middle of the region.

The treasure chest itself is in a car park between the highway road that goes around the north side of the flower fields and the white road that goes through them. There's a small garage building by this car park and the treasure chest is next to it, overlooking the snow-covered fields. It's a spot you can’t use Forza Horizon 6 fast travel to reach directly, but you can get close. Once you're there, smash into the treasure chest for an easy 100,000 Credits, making it a great way to get some Forza Horizon 6 money.

This Treasure Hunt in FH6 isn't around for long as it's part of the limited-time Festival Playlist activities for the winter week. That means you've got until 2:30pm UTC on August 6 to destroy the chest, otherwise the season will change to spring and a new set of challenges will take over. You've also got until the same date and time to complete the Forza Horizon 6 Hirosaki Castle photo challenge!

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AI vibe coding has done the impossible: make Nintendo fans unexcited for Mario Kart Wii on PC. A new static recompilation project promises to give us a fresh way to play one of the best Wii games of all time, but as with many similar projects, the sentiment soon soured once prospective players realized it was built using AI.

"Announcing Mario Kart Wiicompiled," developer patchzy exclaims in a tweet alongside a teaser trailer for the project. "The first static recompilation of a Wii game: Mario Kart Wii, rebuilt for PC. Releasing in beta this August, with online play and optional Retro Rewind support, bringing over 200 tracks!"

Wii games finally getting the static recompilation treatment would be reason enough to get excited, since that would, in theory, open the door for many more Wii titles to become playable on PC. Decompilations and recompilations have been a rallying point for the communities around many classic games, as with the upcoming Spyro project – whose developers proudly proclaim that "no AI" was used in its making.

But, as Time Extension notes, there are no such promises for Mario Kart Wiicompiled. In fact, the project's Discord explicitly confirms that AI was used "for code" – though "no ai art or assets were generated."

That's a distinction that might satisfy some players, but you can just scroll down through the responses to the original tweet to see there are plenty more ready to reject a AI vibe-coded project outright. Only time will tell if Mario Kart Wiicompiled will actually play well, but many members of the various fan development communities are ready to dismiss vibe coding completely.

Such is the case for PS3 emulator RPCS3, whose developers are begging contributors to "stop submitting AI slop code." It's also a key point for the developers behind Donkey Kong 64: Recompiled, who announced their project early in an effort to get out ahead of a vibe-coded rival. A poorly-made AI project can discourage traditional developers from putting in the effort to do it right, and that's a fear hanging over many potential PC ports for classic games in this new vibe coding era.

"It creates lesser games": Indie game studios are supposed to love generative AI, so why do the 25 devs I spoke to avoid it?

The true king of the kart racer, Garfield the unendingly hungry cat, is ripping into Nintendo's decision to effectively kill Mario Kart Tour.

This week, Nintendo announced that its seemingly successful mobile spin-off, Mario Kart Tour, would be shutting down after an almost seven-year run. The entire game and all purchases people have made will be scrubbed come late September, and Nintendo doesn't plan to release a version that's playable offline, as they did for Animal Crossing's mobile experiment.

Along with Mondays and going to the vets, Garfield seemingly hates the idea of digital games and purchases simply evaporating into a virtual void at the behest of corporations. And he made that loudly clear on social media.

"This is why Garfield Kart is better," the Garfield Kart Twitter account writes in response to Mario Kart Tour's impending doom, "we will not randomly kill your game license." The orange feline also boldly proclaimed that Garfield Kart is "better" than the red plumber's racing series, too - an opinion I'm sure won't be divisive at all.

Garfield Kart had heat for everyone in the replies, as well. He is a grumpy cat, after all. Responding to one account that took issue with Garfield's trans advocacy, Garfield Kart pointed out that Nintendo has also been pretty queer-friendly as far as big video game publishers go.

The only diss Garfield Kart didn't directly dispute is that Garfield Kart is "ass." All the account could tweet is that people should "please play [Garfield Kart: Furious Racing] and not the original." Amusingly, Furious Racing is well loved and one of the best-rated kart racers on Steam, but it's not even the most recent Garfield Kart game. That honor goes to Garfield Kart 2 - All You Can Drift, a game with mixed user reviews that Garfield himself left out of the debate. Still, his point stands.

Why not check out our ranking of the best Mario Kart games?

The Forza Horizon 6 Sky Lanterns are an elusive bunch of bright balloons that only appear near the stadium at night in the Autumn season. It's a very specific set of conditions to meet, but there are two ways you can get this Photography challenge done in Forza Horizon 6 to bag yourself 100 Discover Japan points – being in the right place at the right time or using an EventLab cheese. It doesn't matter which method you use, so I've explained both below, including the specific conditions and exact location of the Sky Lanterns in FH6.

Forza Horizon 6 Sky Lanterns location

Sky Lanterns can be found above a field just outside the Horizon Stadium, which is in the Shimanoyama Region on the most westerly point on the map. However, they will only appear at night during the in-game Autumn season.

Head over to the spot on the above map and wait until the sun sets. Eventually, a large cluster of sky lanterns will appear, at which point you just need to switch to Photo Mode and take a picture with the lanterns clearly in view.

However, if you (understandably) don't want to wait ages to for the in-game day/night cycle to do its thing, you can use an EventLab challenge to put you in the right spot at the right time.

Open the Creative Hub menu, then select the EventLab submenu. From here, choose 'Play Challenges', follow the button prompt to search, then type in 'sky lantern' in the Title slot. This will bring up many custom-made challenges that should help you get this challenge done – the one I tested had the share code '136 800 478' and it worked a treat!

During this autumn season, make sure you also know where to find the Forza Horizon 6 bamboo forest and the Forza Horizon 6 Evolving World Car Meet for different weekly challenges.

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The Forza Horizon 6 Bamboo Bash challenge is a very easy part of the Autumn season of the Horizon Decades Festival Playlist Series. All you need to do is crash through 30 bamboo plants, and the best place to do this is in Forza Horizon 6 is the virtual replica of the Arashiyama Bamboo Forest on the border of Minamino and Ito. I've explained where you'll find this bamboo forest below, which will help you get this challenge done in less than a minute.

Forza Horizon 6 bamboo forest location

The best place to find bamboo in FH6 is the bamboo forest that the Arashiyama Run Speed Zone runs through. It's a dirt track that goes across the border of the Minamino and Ito regions and is roughly east-northeast of Shirakawa-Go, north-northwest of Ito Airfield, and west-northwest of Kitayama Big Daisugi – check it out on the above map.

Use Forza Horizon 6 fast travel to zip over to the road, then just drive through bamboo until you complete the Bamboo Bash challenge – you need to destroy 30 which will take you less than 30 seconds in this spot. Once you've completed the challenge, you'll instantly get three Festival Playlist points to help you unlock this week's exclusive cars and a Super Wheelspin, potentially letting you get some great cars or large sums of Forza Horizon 6 Credits.

It's an incredibly easy FH6 challenge that also has some pretty solid rewards, so it's well worth doing as soon as possible. Especially since Bamboo Bash is exclusive to the current Autumn season of the Horizon Decades series, so you've got until 2:30pm UTC on July 2 to get it done, then it'll be gone forever!

There's even less time to find the Forza Horizon 6 Temple of Nachi Falls for a summer challenge! Autumn also has the 'Parklife' challenge, which sends you back to the Forza Horizon 6 Evolving World Car Meet, and make sure you don't miss out on snapping a photo of the Forza Horizon 6 Sky Lanterns.

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The Forza Horizon Temple of Nachi Falls is hidden away in the northern half of the map, specifically on the western edge. It's very easy to miss, but you won't forget it once you've been there, and you must head over if you want to complete the Temple of Zoom daily challenge for the summer season. There's not much time to get this Forza Horizon 6 daily challenge done, so I've explained the precise location of the Temple of Nachi Falls in FH6 below.

Forza Horizon 6 Temple of Nachi Falls location

The Temple of Nachi Falls is on the western edge of the Takashiro region, which also happens to be the western edge of the map. It's not that close to any other landmarks but it's roughly northwest of the Shikisai-No-Oka flower gardens and directly west of Soni Circuit. It's quite easy to spot on the map due to the distinctive winding road that ends with a small loop, which is where you'll find the temple.

Drive up there in any Ford from the 1980s, then switch to Photo Mode and snap a quick photo by pressing RB, ensuring that your car and the temple are clearly in view. That's all you need to do to complete the Temple of Zoom daily challenge, bagging you an easy 5,000 Credits and one point towards the summer season of the Horizon Decades Series. Since the season has already been and gone, this might not help you get any new cars, but if you just missed out, that one point might be all you need.

But time is of the essence as you've only got until 2:30pm UTC on June 27 to get this done. While you can still complete this summer challenge even though it's autumn, you should look at getting the much more rewarding Forza Horizon 6 Bamboo Bash challenge for the autumn playlist done instead!

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Star Wars: Galactic Racer aims to bring consequence back to racing games, offering the kind of white-knuckle thrills you can only get when your life is on the line with every corner you take. That's why its campaign is built on a roguelike-style, run-based structure and after an hour of hands-on time at Summer Game Fest, I can say that the combination has produced some spectacular results. This is a game that feels incredible to play, offers a real sense of danger, and captures the Star Wars vibe impeccably.

"We were trying to push the genre forward by looking at some things that we might have done and used to do in the past that have been missing," Matt Webster, founder and CEO of developer Fuse Games explains. The team aims to create the feeling that "when I crash, when I hit something, there is a consequence to that, and I feel like that's been a little bit missing out of the racing genre."

The deadliest sport in the galaxy

Certainly, I felt those consequences in my hands-on time. Each run sees you follow a tree of events, choosing at each branch whether you'd prefer to, say, take on a standard race, an eliminator challenge, or a mystery event. Fail to finish in the required position – or crash three times in one event – and you're out, left to start all over again.

"We think that that structure and racing is a match made in heaven, because racing thrives on replayability. Let's have a progression system that encourages replayability and mastery, and feels a lot, I suppose, more contemporary. That's a way in which we can breathe some new life into racing by using a more contemporary progression system that's very well in sync with the choices you make and the decisions that you take along the way."

I'd describe myself as a roguelike skeptic – there are entries in the genre that I enjoy, but I generally prefer a more crafted experience. That said, playing with that roguelike structure in a racing game instantly clicks for me. As Webster suggests, the replayability inherent to the racing genre is a perfect fit, and the choices I get for new upgrades between races feels all the more impactful when a mistake could force me back to the start of the tour.

Of course, none of this would matter if the racing didn't feel good to control. Thankfully, Galactic Racer has sublime fundamentals. You choose one of three types of craft to pilot through the races – the all-around landspeeder, the boatlike skim speeder, or the small, darting speeder bike – each of which feels distinct, complete with unique drift mechanics to help you take turns more efficiently.

The thing all vehicles share is a pair of boost mechanics. There's an afterburner that recharges over time, which you can naturally activate for a quick boost, as you'd expect to see in any arcade racer. There's also the riskier ramjet, which separately charges over time and has to be primed with a separate button press before use. The ramjet will shoot you off at out of control speeds with such force that you can shunt opposing racers off into walls in spectacular crashes, but if you use it too long your engine will overheat and blow your own vehicle to smithereens.

"We've spent time making Burnout games and making Need for Speed games, and it's great to bring some of that inspiration and influence into a new expression of this sort of racing," Webster explains, and if you've ever played a Burnout game before, you will absolutely recognize that influence in the slow-motion cutaways that let you indulge in the vehicular carnage for a few seconds before getting back to racing.

There's also a bit of MotorStorm – another sadly long-dormant racing series – in the way that each race sees several different vehicle classes all competing together, but there's one thing missing from the standard tracks: podracers. The opportunity to drive these vehicles is presented as a special treat, which you can access either from the main menu or as part of the campaign in a "fun and interesting way" that Webster was not willing to spoil.

My time in a podracer feels like going from street racing in a coupe to screaming down the highway in a McLaren supercar. The difference in speed is immense, and even after an hour of getting to grips with Galactic Racer's basic mechanics I'm struggling to go an entire lap without one of my twin engines smashing directly into a rock wall. But those few stretches where I'm able to keep it on track are extremely satisfying, especially playing as Sebulba and getting to unleash his racer's flame jets on nearby opponents.

There are so many more cool things in Galactic Racer, like the tactile little minigame where you start up your vehicle, or the paddock where you can chill out between races and chat with NPCs. It all feels like a complete package, and out of everything I played at Summer Game Fest, this is the one I'm most looking forward to. It's a tried and tested concept molded with a structure that makes it feel fresh, and I can't wait to be zooming around the galaxy far, far away once again this October.

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The Forza Horizon 6 Evolving World Car Meet is a temporary Car Meet in the Hokubu Region that you'll need to visit for several daily challenges over the course of the Horizon Decades Festival Playlist Series. They're not the most rewarding Forza Horizon 6 challenges, but they are at least very easy, requiring you to park up in the Car Meet in cars from the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Once you know where to find this Evolving World Car Meet in FH6, all these challenges will be a doddle, so here's where you need to look.

Forza Horizon 6 Nangan Evolving World Car Meet location

The only Evolving World Car Meet currently in Forza Horizon 6 is on the east side of the Hokubu Circuit in the Hokubu Region. The circuit is in the eastern half of the region, very close to the coast of the bay that's split across Hokubu and Ito. The Car Meet itself is just north of the Irabuohashi Bridge landmark sign on the map.

So, to complete any daily challenge that tasks you with heading here, such as 'Parklife' or 'Just waiting for a Mate', all you need to do is head to the Hokubu Car Meet and park any car from the required decade in one of the spots by following the button prompt.

If you need an appropriate car, open the 'Change Car' menu, press X to bring up the sorting options, then select 'Year'. This organizes your collection cars into decades, so you can jump to the right section of your collection – Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Cars and Forza Horizon 6 Barn Finds will have you covered for the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s! Then just drive it into any of the Car Meet spaces and follow the button prompt to join the meet and complete the challenge.

For completing the 'Parklife' challenge, you'll get a rather insignificant 5,000 Credits and one Festival Playlist point, but they're at least very quick to complete, and you'll need every point you can get if you want the free Festival Playlist cars. Just remember that these challenges aren't around forever and expire with the end of each season at 2:30pm UTC every Thursday.

For the current autumn season, you can also find the Forza Horizon 6 bamboo forest to complete the much more rewarding Bamboo Bash challenge. There's also still a bit of time to complete the Temple of Zoom challenge where you need to head to the Forza Horizon 6 Temple of Nachi Falls.

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The Forza Horizon 6 Nangan Treasure Hunt offers the usual 100,000 Credits, so long as you can find it lying on the beach that overlooks Tokyo City. The problem is, there's quite a lot of beach to comb in your car for this Treasure Hunt, and it doesn't help that the provided photo in the Festival Playlist is short on obvious Forza Horizon 6 landmarks to help you. That's where I come in, as I've pointed out the precise location of this FH6 Treasure Hunt in Nangan below.

Forza Horizon 6 Nangan Treasure Hunt location

The Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt in the Nangan Region is located on the eastern beach on the little peninsula bit in the southern half of Nangan. It's essentially the easternmost point of the region and is northeast of the space center, directly south of Daikoku Parking Area in Tokyo City – it's also very close to the location of the Ford GT Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Car.

Use one of the many roads (or just drive off a cliff) to get onto the beach, then drive to the right spot described and shown on the map above – Forza Horizon 6 fast travel can't get you to the exact spot but close enough – then crash through the treasure chest to get 100,000 Credits.

These treasure hunts are an incredibly easy way to get Forza Horizon 6 money, but since they're part of the weekly seasonal Festival Playlist activities, they only stick around for a week (as will the Forza Horizon 6 Evolving World Car Meet challenge!). This Nangan Treasure Hunt, which is part of the Horizon Decades Festival Playlist Series, will become unavailable from 2:30pm UTC on June 25. At this time, the season will change to autumn, bringing new challenges, but a Treasure Hunt won't be one of them. You'll have to wait until the winter season the following week (from July 2) for the next one, which is in the mountains of the Sotoyama Region.

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My hands-on demo of Stuntman: Hollywood was only 15 minutes long, but it was the best 15 minutes I spent at Summer Game Fest. I've never played the original games, but even without the rosy tint of nostalgia this is a fantastic arcade driving game that already has me eager to revisit its stages again and again to complete the perfect run.

As the name suggests, Stuntman: Hollywood puts you in the driver's seat of a car performing stunts for various action blockbusters. Your director shouts out instructions to you alongside visual indicators along the track, prompting you to, say, drift around a corner, launch off a ramp, and narrowly squeeze past an oncoming car. It's a bit like having a rally co-driver warn you of upcoming turns, just with a lot more explosions along the way.

Stunt on these bros

Each run is just a minute or two long, which prevents repeated attempts from getting exhausting. None of the five levels I play are difficult to complete, but getting perfect marks on every stunt along the way is a real challenge, and one that keeps me hitting that restart button over and over. (Producer Tim Lohrenz, who was overseeing the demo, jokes about how glad he is that current-generation consoles have effectively eliminated loading times.)

It's the excellent controls that really put Stuntman: Hollywood over the top. The car physics are by no means realistic – this is an arcade-style driving model through and through – but that just means you have a lot of leeway to get your drifts and corners just right. On the first run through a level, I feel like I'm just on the edge of control of my vehicle. By the second or third attempt, I'm already starting to build my flow toward that perfect run.

The big gimmick with Stuntman: Hollywood is that the game now features an array of courses licensed from actual car-focused action films and shows, ranging from Fast & Furious to Miami Vice – with more unannounced collaborations to come, Lohrenz teases.

I play through one of the Back to the Future stages, recreating the scene where Marty McFly escapes the terrorists in the mall parking lot. It's not exactly a one-to-one match for the scene as it's shown in the film – there are a lot more terrorists here, for example – but it nails the vibe, especially with the original soundtrack blaring in the background throughout the ride.

But honestly, I think the original courses might be even better. My favorite came at the end of the demo, featuring a collapsing stretch of highway covered in falling boulders, ruined cars, and even crashed airplanes. The undulation of the broken road creates a great sense of verticality, and drifting through the danger is even more exciting when you're sliding across a 70-degree slope.

Even the simpler tracks are still thrilling, however, thanks to the precise controls and fast-paced action. During my brief demo, I was already getting the urge to go back through each one to perfect my line and nail every stunt, and I can only imagine that urge growing once I've got the final game and all its checklists and trophies.

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The Forza Horizon 6 Space Port Photo Challenge for spring has the extra requirement of snapping a picture of a Track Toy too. Assuming you've played quite a few races in Forza Horizon 6, there's a good chance you've visited the Irokawa Space Port already but you might not have one of these high-performance cars. If you need some pointers to get this AstroToy' Photo Challenge done, here's where the Space Port is and how you can get a Track Toy car.

Forza Horizon 6 Space Port Photo Challenge location

This Forza Horizon 6 Photo Challenge has two elements to it as you need to take a photo of a Track Toy car at the Space Port in the Nangan Region in the very south of the map. Getting to the Space Port is easy as you can use Forza Horizon 6 fast travel to quickly teleport over to the general area of the launch facility as shown on the map above.

As for the car, open the 'Cars' menu and select 'Change Car', then sort by 'Car Type'. From here, scroll all the way across to the Track Toys section and choose one of the cars you own from there. If you don't own one, you'll need to head to the Autoshow at either of the Horizon Festival sites and buy one.

With both those conditions met, you just need to open Photo Mode by pressing D-Pad Up and take a quick shot with your car in view. Unlike the picture shown in the Festival Playlist page, you don't even need to have the rocket in view, so long as the photo is taken in the general area of the space port.

For your efforts, you'll get the Forza Link "Beam me up!" line and two points towards the spring season, the last of the Welcome to Japan Series. Make sure you complete the current Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt too while there's still time as you've got until 2:30pm UTC on June 18 to complete both. After that, the season will change back to summer, ushering in a new Festival Playlist Series and even more challenges.

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Maverick Games is confident that Clutch can cut through the noise. When Forza Horizon 5 director Mike Brown exited Playground Games with a cadre of the studio's senior leadership team in 2022, the intention was to create a different type of open-world racing game. Now, little over three years of development time later, and with Maverick having been the victim of publisher Amazon Game Studios' shifting priorities, the newly independent team is finally ready to reveal its work to the world.

Clutch makes an excellent first impression. Maverick is walking a fine line between professional circuit racing and race-and-chase cinematic storytelling, where escalating pursuits and blistering getaway missions push you out into a lush open-world composite of the French Riviera. The presentation is absolutely sublime, built in a heavily modified version of Unreal Engine 5; Clutch can deliver the immersive visual fidelity and expansive soundscapes that came to define the Playground and Turn 10 Forza games, so that Maverick has been able to capture this feel after starting over from scratch is certainly impressive.

Forza comparisons are inevitable given the origins of the studio, but I get the sense that Clutch is trying to fill the void in the market left by the absence of new Need for Speed games. I got some Hot Pursuit and Most Wanted vibes as police presence ramped up in high-speed chases around the open-world, and the focus on single-player storytelling certainly echoes the Ghost Games era of NFS, from the 2015 reboot through Payback, Heat, and Unbound. I should note that Clutch will contain multiplayer elements and shared-sandbox elements, although Maverick isn't quite ready to get into all that just yet.

When I sit down with the studio at Summer Game Fest, the intention is to introduce the siblings at the heart of the story and highlight the way Clutch can shift its action between different styles. You'll hit the RK1 (a proving ground tournament for the world's top drivers) in slick circuit races, driving for social currency with the underground car community dubbed the Midnight Collective, and get involved in more considered storytelling as one of the two protagonists becomes indebted to a criminal element.

Maverick let me get hands-on with Clutch once this was all said and done, where I was able to take a vehicle out around a track for a couple of laps. It wasn't clear what sort of assists and settings the team had activated, but I can say that this is absolutely within the 'SimCade' genre of racing games – more forgiving than Gran Turismo and Forza Motorsport, less arcadey than Burnout, and absolutely in that NFS and Horizon sphere of influence. The driving model is impressive, challenging without being overbearing. I'm certainly keen to play more of it and see how vehicles handle once I'm able to play around with the impressive suite of customization options available.

My concern with Maverick right now is that I think this new IP is trying to do too much too quickly. It's unclear how the game will blend its cinematic storytelling ambitions within a widely scoped open-world, a massive challenge but one I'm keen to see more of in the future. At certain moments (such as key story beats and car meets) you're able to get out of your car and slowly walk around, with one example having you investigate a sprawling mansion for a way to gain access to a supercar to steal. One chase sequence had such a glacial sense of speed that I wouldn't have known we were moving beyond 30mph if the speedometer wasn't saying otherwise.

That aforementioned supercar has a harpoon gadget bolted onto the underside of its chassis, introducing a mechanic which seems wholly unnecessary. While it can't be used in RK1 tournament races, open-world pursuits with cops and robbers will let you utilize harpoon swing points to make sharp turns around corners. "If you come across a tagged harpoon swing point, you're able to connect to it, but you still have to press that button again to detach from it – there's a skill check there, so if you stay connected for too long you're probably going to crash the car," says Brown. It's a neat idea, but I'm not sure it's all that necessary when the handbrake is right there.

And then there's the Midnight Collective races, which are run by a famous in-universe podcaster. This is where Clutch lost me. The game is set in the modern day, and is exceptionally online. In an instant, you aren't driving for pole position, but for likes. "Hey chat…" is a common refrain in this arena, as valuable real estate of the screen is consumed by an in-universe sprawl of text as viewers of the live stream comment on the race in real time. Eventually, requests start flooding in – donations of in-game credits offered for pulling off near-misses and other stunts. It's a little bleak.

Clutch is a really interesting addition to the racing genre, and there's a lot to like about what Maverick is putting out into the world. This is a confident first showing, but still I have a lingering fear that it's trying to get off the line too fast. With a long stretch of road to go ahead of the Spring 2027 release window, I do hope that some of my concerns will be allayed as more is shown to the world.

I previously reported that Clutch wouldn't allow you to change your route when you're completing a story mission in the open-world. Maverick reached out to clarify that this constraint is only applicable in the prologue of the game, but that it is an otherwise open-world experience. This preview has been updated to reflect that.

Clutch is set to launch on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X in 2027. Check out all the other upcoming games for 2026 and beyond while you wait.

Forza Horizon 6 vending machines are scattered all over the map, and you need to smash five of them to complete a Festival Playlist challenge for the winter and bag a nice new car – the 2023 Lotus Emira. If you want to be done with this challenge as quickly as possible, I've laid out some points for destroying vending machine sin FH6 below, including a good place I found that has five of them conveniently close together.

Forza Horizon 6 vending machine locations

Vending machines can be found all over the Japan map in Forza Horizon 6, with them commonly appearing outside shops and gas stations.

Naturally, that means the Tokyo City Region is the best place to look for five of them to destroy in Forza Horizon 6. All you need to do is drive your car into them to break them – you'll also get 1,000 skill chain points for the 'Feed Me' Skill.

There's a particularly good spot for finding vending machines in the northwest of Tokyo City, roughly southwest of the Edogawa Baseball Stadium, which is conveniently also where this week's Forza Horizon 6 Photo Challenge is located. Under the highway overpass, there's a gas station that has two vending machines on the forecourt, with a third just around the corner against a building:

Then there are two more vending machines outside the 365 konbini on the road on the opposite side of the overpass:

There are more near the 365 konbini that's behind the gas station and diagonally opposite the across the intersection, so you'll easily find five to break here.

Whichever vending machines you destroy, once you've smashed five, open the Festival Playlist menu and you'll instantly be given three Festival Playlist points towards the winter rewards and the new Lotus Emira, an A-656-rated RWD sports car. Having RWD means it's set up quite nicely to be a good drift car, but you can already get the Lotus Evija Forza Edition, which is one the best Forza Horizon 6 drift cars in the whole game.

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Stop Killing Games, the movement that hopes to see a future in which developers can't just take games offline and no longer allow those who have purchased them to play ever again, is back with a new update on its European Citizens' Initiative.

In case you're out of the loop, Stop Killing Games first took off in the public eye back in 2024 when Ubisoft decided to take The Crew offline… effectively making it a dead digital title for those who "owned" it.

The movement aims to make it so that companies can't just shut their games down as Ubisoft did, as it conflicts with consumer rights – particularly in Europe. It's been a long road, to say the least, but it's caught global attention.

Now, in a new online post, Stop Killing Games alleges that Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot attended "an 'invitation-only' meeting with the European Commission, hosted by VGE [Video Games Europe], two weeks before the EC planned answer to our ECI [European Citizens' Initiative]."

That's not what stands out here, though. "SKG was not invited." In other words, the group wasn't included. In response, the movement includes an open letter.

"That is the opening image of this moment: Ubisoft at the table, with its CEO at the helm, in the room with senior European Commission officials shortly before the Commission is expected to answer Stop Killing Games," it writes.

"Ubisoft shut down The Crew, one of the cases that helped turn the destruction of online-dependent paid games into an international consumer issue and helped drive this movement’s most successful petition."

It continues, referencing how a French consumer group backed by Stop Killing Games sued Ubisoft earlier this year, citing misleading ownership rules.

"Ubisoft is now facing legal action over that shutdown, including from the French consumer organization UFC-Que Choisir, has faced legal action in California over the same issue, and is also under scrutiny by French and Australian consumer authorities. The timing is impossible to ignore."

The movement concludes in its opening, "The event takes place thirteen days before the European Commission is expected to answer a citizens' initiative backed by more than one million verified supporters."

As Stop Killing Games itself evidently believes, the timing certainly is notable. Ubisoft has yet to confirm the meeting or share anything about it, but I doubt it'd give much of a fruitful response at this point.

Previously, the studio responded with a less-than-ideal statement, saying, "Support for all games cannot last forever." Ubisoft also declared "we operate in a market," which means it's not viable to keep every title online or working indefinitely.

Industry lobbyists ridicule "false premise" that "consumers 'own' digital games" amid Stop Killing Games fight

The studio responsible for The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered helped make the expansive Forza Horizon 6 car list.

Forza Horizon 6 sped out earlier this month to wide acclaim and an even wider player base thanks to the series' sturdy concoction of free-roaming virtual tourism and speedy, spectacle-driven races. But Playground Games had a little outside help on the project.

The Oblivion remasterers at Virtuos revealed as much in a recent online post: "The cars are at the heart of the Forza Horizon 6 experience, and we're proud to have had a hand in nearly 90% of them."

"Glass Egg – A Virtuos studio collaborated closely with Playground Games and Turn 10 Studios as an extension of their team to deliver expansive art production support for Forza Horizon 6, contributing to the development and refinement of all nine distinct biomes and roughly 90% of the vehicles in the game," it explained in a follow-up blog

"The team’s focus was on ensuring visual consistency, scalability, and uncompromised production quality across diverse, large-scale environments, helping create immersive and vibrant worlds that define the Forza Horizon 6 experience, as well as bringing the vehicle roster to life in breathtaking detail," it goes on.

This is actually Virtuos' third time working with Playground Games, the developer behind every open-world game in the racing series and the upcoming Fable reboot, after lending a hand on Forza Horizon 4 and Forza Horizon 5.

Virtuos itself is one of the most prominent co-developers in the biz, having contributed on everything from Metal Gear Solid Delta to Cyberpunk 2077 and Subnautica 2.

Forza Horizon 6 has its own community villain in the form of a driver who's griefing everyone across Japan

The Forza Horizon 6 Edogawa Baseball Stadium in Tokyo City is where you need to head for this week's Photo Challenge. Despite having completed the Edogawa Cross-Country Circuit race, I had completely forgotten that this stadium even existed in Forza Horizon 6, and it's not easy to spot on the map either – don't get it mixed up with the very obvious Horizon Stadium towards the map's western edge! Here's where you need to go to find the Edogawa Baseball Stadium in FH6 for the winter Photo Challenge.

Forza Horizon 6 Edogawa Baseball Stadium location

The current winter Forza Horizon 6 Photo Challenge requires you to snap a picture inside the Edogawa Baseball Stadium, which is near the northwestern edge of the Tokyo City region. It's just north of the Tokyo City Food Delivery job icon on the map where you can see a baseball pitch with a light-blue road running through it.

Get over to this stadium, whether you use Forza Horizon 6 fast travel or drive over, then move your car onto the stadium pitch itself. Then you just need to open Photo Mode by pressing D-Pad Up and take a quick shot with your car in view.

For doing so, you'll get the Slide Whistle car horn and the usual two points towards the Winter Season rewards. This Winter season also doesn't feature a Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt, but there are plenty of other challenges to take on for even more rewards.

Finally, since this Photo Challenge is only around for the winter week of the 'Welcome to Japan' Festival Playlist Series, you've got until 2:30pm UTC on June 11 to complete it. After that, the season will switch to spring and there will be a new Photo Challenge which looks like it's to do with the rocket launch facility in the south of the map. Check back here next week when it goes live for all the details!

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Using the best Forza Horizon 6 drift cars is essential if you want to score highly on Drift Zones and look extremely cool during Touge Races. Good drift cars can be practically impossible to drive in a straight line but that makes them perfect for going sideways down weaving mountain roads instead like something out of Initial D. Having one the best drift cars in FH6 makes achieving high scores much easier, but drifting is also a skill that requires practice. With that in mind, I've laid out some drifting tips below, as well as the best drift cars available.

Best Forza Horizon 6 drift cars

These are some of the best drift cars in Forza Horizon 6:

• Any Formula Drift car
• DeBerti Toyota Tacoma TRD 'The Performance Truck'
• Lotus Evija Forza Edition
• Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX Forza Edition

While the above cars are certainly some great choices for drifting, even without any upgrades, there are plenty of cars that can be tuned for drifting. To start, you want something with rear-wheel drive (look for RWD when looking at cars).

Then you can take it to a Horizon Festival site and look through the 'Upgrades & Tuning' menu. Go to 'Find Tuning Setups', then apply 'Drift' as one of the search keywords. Hopefully another Forza Horizon 6 player has already made a drift-worthy tune setup for your car of choice, which you can then install and then take your car to some Drift Zones.

If you want to manually upgrade your car, there are plenty of drift-compatible part, such as drift tyres and differentials, and some cars even have drift-focused body kit presets you can apply. Additionally, you should also increase your car's torque as much as possible as this will help with drifting – aim for around 800-1,000Nm at minimum.

How to drift in Forza Horizon 6 and drifting tips

Drifting in Forza Horizon 6 is a skill that takes a lot of practice to get use to as it's all about intuitive reactions to keep an out-of-control car under control during a turn – try the Drift Club Story if you're a beginner, then you can test your skills in Drift Zones and Touge Races like the Forza Horizon 6 Hakone Nanamagari.

To quickly cover the basics, you can initiate a drift by briefly steering your car sharply in one direction and then sometimes tapping the brakes to get the car sliding. From then on, it's all about being gentle with the throttle, e-brake, and steering to keep your car going sideways, ideally for as long as possible if you want to score highly in Drift Zones around the map.

With that in mind, here are some tips to help you master drifting and earn three stars in all the Drift Zones:

• Check your assists: If you're struggling with drifting, it may be that your Forza Horizon 6 assists are preventing you from doing so. Make sure you have control over your steering and braking, otherwise drifting will be incredibly difficult.
• Feather the throttle to avoid spinning out: A crucial aspect of a successful drift is finding the throttle sweet spot where you're going just fast enough to keep your momentum through the corner while not so fast that you overshoot the corner or the car suddenly snaps and spins out. If your car gets a bit twitchy, ease off the throttle to course correct. You can then get back on the throttle to carry on the drift if possible.
• Use steering and your e-brake to adjust the drift angle: For shallow corners, you need to steer a little in the opposite direction of your initial turn to keep the car sideways without changing direction all that much. For sharper turns, you want to steer in the same direction as your initial turn, and if that isn't enough, a little tap of the e-brake can sharpen the angle even more. And for some turns, you may need to use a combination of both methods to maintain a drift.
• Drift Zones accumulate points based on drift speed and duration: To maximize your points in Drift Zones and get three stars, you need to focus on performing long continuous drifts rather than lots of short ones. The point counter increases noticeably faster the longer you drift and the faster you're going while drifting.
• Use the right drift car for the right terrain: Drift Zones in Forza Horizon 6 are split between normal roads and dirt tracks, each with their own properties. I've found that larger, heavier cars are better for dirt drifting as their weight and the rough terrain seem to naturally stabilize the car during a drift, letting you score big points. For example, from the above list, the Lotus Evija is terrible on dirt, while the bulky DeBerti Toyota Tacoma is much better suited to off-road drifting.
• You can drift in a straight line: When driving down a straight section of a Drift Zone, you can keep scoring points by steering your car left and right until you reach a corner. If you're in the right car, just turning will be enough to start a small drift, and you can chain these together to bump up your score a little between long drifts.

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The Forza Horizon 6 Hakone Nanamagari is a Touge Race found deep in the southern region of the Japan map that will only show up when you drive there. Based on the real Japanese road of the same name, this Forza Horizon 6 race is highly technical with lots of sharp hairpin turns that can be tricky to overtake on. You also need to win in the Toyota GR86 if you're to complete the Gazoo Race Weekly Challenge, so I've laid out the location of the Hakone Nanamagari race in FH6 below, as well as some basic tips for crossing the line first.

You also need to earn Forza Horizon 6 Speed Skills in the GR86 for this weekly challenge!

Forza Horizon 6 Hakone Nanamagari location

The FH6 Hakone Nanamagari Touge Race can be found in the Nangan region to the south. It won't appear on your map until you drive over to the race start point, which is at the top of the squiggly, winding mountain road in the middle of Nangan and roughly northwest of the space center – check the above map!

Once you've revealed the Hakone Nanamagari start point, you can enter the race and pick your car. Initial D fans will want to pick something drift-capable but if you're trying to complete the final challenge for the Gazoo Racer Weekly Challenge, you need to pick the 2022 Toyota GR86. You need to win this race too to complete the challenge, and since the GR86 isn't the best car for this sort of race, especially against your opponent Scott Tyler's souped-up touge racer, that's not the easiest feat.

Don't be above shunting Scott off course (if he falls off, that's his fault) or lowering the difficult and maybe some of your Forza Horizon 6 settings and assists for this race. If you want to keep things clean, bear in mind that drifting is a rather inefficient way of taking corners (though it does look and feel extremely cool on the Hakone Nanamagari), so it's best avoided if you want to win. Use our Forza Horizon 6 racing tips if you need more pointers for winning races!

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Forza Horizon 6 players finally have a community villain that's best described as Let Me Solo Her's evil twin: a driver who's been griefing people up and down the racing game's open world, and is so prevalent that they've transcended into the realm of internet myth.

Over the last week, players online have noticed that a driver called bowieknife99 has been causing some serious damage. Whether it's in online races or solo ones that match you up with drivatars - computer-controlled versions of real players trained off their driving behaviours - bowieknife99 is seemingly on every street corner.

Multiple clips have since gone viral showing the evil festival goer crashing into players mid-race, easily securing wins, and leading races in vehicles that have no business beating the most lux machines on the Forza Horizon 6 car list. One video below even shows a mid Honda beating a 787B.

My favorite comes in the video embedded below and sums up what makes bowieknife99 such an absolute menace. A three-wheeled joke car handily outpaces some of the fastest cars in the world in a straight-lined drag race.

While drivatars lightly mimic the real-world people they're based on, usually, I've never seen it go so off the rails in all six Forza Horizon games. They usually bump into you while passing if their real-world counterpart drives a little recklessly, for example, or they might struggle to drift if that's what the data they're trained on suggests. The game's new villain is something else entirely - as if Playground Games have crafted the ultimate, motorized troll.

Whoever bowieknife99 is (a Playground Games employee, or Lewis Hamilton, perhaps), they're not naughty enough to ruin the game. A Baldur's Gate 3 lead even called Forza Horizon 6 a "perfect game" in a struggling industry.

Forza Horizon 6 sells 4.9 million copies despite Xbox Game Pass "cannibalizing" revenue, says analyst

Forza Horizon 6 has sold 4.9 million copies since its global launch on May 19, a major accomplishment for an Xbox game in 2026, according to analyst Rhys Elliott.

The head of market analysis at game data tracker Alinea Analytics explains in a new installment of The Alinea Insight Newsletter that Forza Horizon 6 has earned developer Playground Games $325 million in about a week – with plenty of assistance from the 1.7 million players who opted to buy the racing game's early access on May 15. None of that would be too surprising for a highly desired, AAA game, however, if it weren't for how many of its sales came from the Xbox storefront.

Yes, we are a place in history where the fact that a game published by Xbox Game Studios is, in fact, selling well on Xbox is a big deal. New Xbox CEO Asha Sharma is hyperaware of this – otherwise she wouldn't be scrambling to reduce Game Pass' subscription price, expand its tiers, and move into a new era for the company with the next-gen console Project Helix. Forza Horizon 6, then, might be the perfect transition.

"Our data shows that Xbox gamers across console, PC, and cloud [...] really showed up for Forza, accounting for 42% of copies sold (almost 2.1M) versus Steam's 2.8M," Elliott reports. "That's an unusually strong Xbox-side performance by any standard, but it's made even more impressive by over 3M people accessing Forza Horizon 6 via Game Pass on top of that 2.1M paid number."

Forza Horizon 6 is also generating a bit more of its total revenue on Xbox compared to Steam – 51% as opposed to 49% – due to Xbox's mostly Western audience treating itself to more expensive regional pricing.

But though it's receiving plenty of blessings in the form of big sales numbers and big regional price tags, Xbox still found a way to be its own worst enemy. Elliott says, "Game Pass is cannibalizing" some of Forza's revenue, and "both the Steam and Xbox versions would have sold better if it weren't for the day-one Game Pass inclusion, with 3M+ players accessing Forza Horizon 6 via subscription rather than purchasing it outright."

"The counterargument Microsoft might have pointed to is subscription lifetime value," the analyst continues, since 3 million players who decided to either begin or renew Game Pass subscriptions for Forza Horizon 6 make up for fewer direct sales with their promise of ongoing Game Pass payments.

"That's the kind of maths Microsoft had been doing internally until [former CEO Phil Spencer], and it's the same thinking that has justified day-and-date Game Pass releases for over five years now," Elliott says. "It's not the right call to make amid stagnating subscription growth, though."

So Game Pass might still need help to become a success. At least Forza Horizon 6 doesn't.

Yes, Fable is still coming to PS5 despite Xbox's plans to "reevaluate our approach to exclusivity," and Playground Games confirms the RPG isn't getting delayed, either.

Driving the best Forza Horizon 6 cars for the right race can make a huge difference in how you place, as there's only so much driver skill can carry you. Obviously being a good driver is very important but choosing the cars that shine above the rest for certain race types will give you an edge in Forza Horizon 6. The variety of race types and activities also means it's impossible to find a one-size-fits-all answer for the "best" car, and you need a broad selection in your garage instead. Bearing all that in mind, here are the cars I found to be the best from my time playing Forza Horizon 6, helping me win races and earn three stars in many PR Stunts.

Best Forza Horizon 6 cars

I kept coming back to these 14 cars for all sorts of Horizon Festival activities, from road and dirt races to Speed Traps and Drift Zones:

Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list and there are plenty of other cars on the Forza Horizon 6 car list that would fit on here based on your personal preferences – although if you’re just interested in pure speed, take a look at this list of the fastest Forza Horizon 6 cars instead.

When you consider tuning and upgrades too, and how they can radically alter a car's performance, you can make almost any car great in some way. But the cars above are the ones that should see you through almost all of what Forza Horizon 6 has to offer.

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Forza Horizon 6 Speed Skills are very easy to earn, provided you've got a rapid car and plenty of room to get up to speed on a straight road. Sometimes, Festival Playlist challenges require you to earn "Great Speed Skills" and such. They're very easy to get in free roam if you zoom down a highway in a hypercar, but can be harder to earn in specific activities. If you need to get Speed Skills in FH6 for any challenges or Festival Playlist objectives, here's what you need to know.

How to get Forza Horizon 6 Speed Skills

To get any Speed Skill in Forza Horizon 6, you just need to drive fast, specifically above 100mph/161kmph for "a short distance", according to the in-game description. It works out as several seconds when you're actually driving, but the faster you drive, the faster you'll cover this short distance, letting you rack up Speed Skills quicker.

Like almost every other Skill in Forza Horizon 6, there are also multiple levels to Speed Skills based on how well you execute them. From my testing, this is how all the Speed Skills seem to work:

• Speed (100 points): Maintain a speed of over 100mph/161kmph
• Great Speed (150 points): Maintain a speed of over 150mph/241kmph
• Awesome Speed (250 points): Maintain a speed of over 175mph/282kmph
• Ultimate Speed (1,000 points): Maintain a speed of over 200mph/322kmph

Unsurprisingly, the fastest cars in Forza Horizon 6 are great for getting Speed Skills, along with some of the best Forza Horizon 6 drag cars. So, if you're trying to get Speed Skills in free roam for a Festival Playlist challenge or to get a good Skill Chain score, you should drive one of these cars at full throttle along one of the straighter sections of highway that feature on the Japan map. And while you're driving around, keep an eye out for the Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt.

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Driving the best Forza Horizon 6 drag cars is the only way you can zoom past your opponents and tear up the drag strip. You need a car that emphasizes speed and acceleration, and there are plenty of tuning setups for practically every car that can help with that. Just bear in mind that you'll likely be sacrificing almost every other aspect of your car for this narrow focus, so drag cars aren't good for much else in Forza Horizon 6. But if you want to try setting the fastest times, these are some of the best drag racing cars in Forza Horizon 6.

Best Forza Horizon 6 drag cars

The best drag racing cars in Forza Horizon 6 are arguably the following thanks to their incredible acceleration:

• Mazda MX-5 Miata Forza Edition
• Toyota Tacoma TRD Pro Forza Edition
• Nissan GT-R Black Edition (R35) Forza Edition
• Aston Martin Valhalla Concept Car

While you might think that the fastest cars in Forza Horizon 6 would also be the best drag racing cars, the Forza Edition Miata seems to be the undisputed best drag car in the game thanks to its stats and stock drag tyres, at least straight out of the box anyway. It's also quite easy to get, which I've covered further down, while the rest of these cars are harder to get, relying on random Wheelspins and luck or are quite expensive.

You can make these cars even better too by driving them to a Horizon Festival site and entering the 'Upgrades and Tuning' menu under the 'Cars' tab. From here, choose 'Find Tuning Setups', then use the search function and select 'Drag' as one of the keywords. This should bring up several setups for your chosen car that are optimized for Drag racing, and you can do the same for Drift setups to help you create the best drift cars in Forza Horizon 6.

You can also manually upgrade your car as well – just make sure you focus on boosting Speed, Acceleration, and Launch as much as possible and fit Drag tyres! It's also a good idea to get familiar with Launch Control and some of the other Forza Horizon 6 assists, so you can get off the line smoothly.

How to get the best drag car in Forza Horizon 6

To get Forza Horizon 6's best drag racing car, the Mazda MX-5 Miata Forza Edition, you need to head to the Aftermarket Car spot that's just north of the Festival Kilometre Drag Meet at the main Horizon Festival site, as the Forza Edition MX-5 Miata has a chance of spawning there – thanks MitchCactus.

All you need to do is reload the map, whether that's by participating in a race or restarting the game, until the car appears, which shouldn't take long – the car appeared for me after reloading the game three times. You can then buy it for 500,000 Credits, meaning it's not the priciest car by a long shot but make sure you know some easy ways to farm money in Forza Horizon 6 to afford it.

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The Forza Horizon 6 Tokyo City Treasure Hunt is the hardest to find of the current Festival Playlist Series, requiring you to explore the ramp-filled warehouses of the port area. Still, it's well worth going for the chest as the usual 100,000 Credit reward for smashing these chests in Forza Horizon 6 is up for grabs. But if you need some help not only figuring out where you need to go, but also how to even get up there, I've explained everything for this week's Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt in Tokyo City below.

Forza Horizon 6 Tokyo City Treasure Hunt location

The Forza Horizon 6 Tokyo City Treasure Hunt is in the container port area on the eastern edge of the region. Specifically, it's on an exterior track attached to the northernmost warehouse near the cranes.

To get up to it, drive up the ramp on the outside of the warehouse at full speed and jump across to the track on the next warehouse, which will take you up to the roof – make sure you've got a speedy car for this, one of the fastest Forza Horizon 6 cars or one of the best Forza Horizon 6 drag cars will help.

Drive across the roof to the exterior track on the other side and follow it towards the warehouse you started at. This track will take you to an upper level of this warehouse that can't be reached any other way. From here, you need to carefully cross the steel girder bridge to the other side of the warehouse, then you can drive outside to find the Treasure Hunt chest at the end of the track. Smash into it to get some easy Forza Horizon 6 money and 5,000XP.

Since this Treasure Hunt is part of the spring week of the 'Welcome to Japan' Series of the Festival Playlist, this chest will become unavailable from 2:30pm UTC on June 18 and it's also the last Treasure Hunt of the Series. After this time, the season will change back to summer and the first week of an entirely new Festival Playlist Series will begin too! There will almost certainly be more Treasure Hunts, but make sure you also complete this week's Forza Horizon 6 Space Port Photo Challenge too.

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Forza Horizon 6 screeched onto the scene earlier this week in a smoke of cherry blossoms, and it has Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director Michael 'Cromwelp' Douse's attention.

Douse says in a recent Twitter post that Forza Horizon 6 is "a perfect game," especially in what he describes as "a struggling industry." To his point, it feels like mass layoffs, spontaneous game cancellations, and a flood of uninspired remakes have all become as predictable as the sunset. But, as we note in our four-out-of-five Forza Horizon 6 review, developer Playground Games made "one of the most convincing open worlds ever."

The Japan setting in Forza Horizon 6 is huge and lucious, offering a variety of snow-kissed mountaintops, curlicue highways, and more cherry blossoms than you can count while racing the luxury vehicle of your dreams. The game's underlying narrative about being a racecar driver progressing through the competitive Horizon Festival is, admittedly, characteristically loose, and our reviewer Justin Towell calls Forza Horizon 6's story "shallow and unconvincing." But you're not playing Forza Horizon 6 for the story.

You're playing it, as Douse writes on Twitter, for the "perfect gameplay loop. Consistently joyous, energetic, and infectiously upbeat."

"It is like a familiar friend that both wants you to have a good time and knows how to show you one," Douse adds. And it's true, while the Forza franchise hasn't undergone any gigantic changes in its 21 years on Earth – the job of a racing game is, ultimately, to be a racing game – Forza Horizon 6 takes the stylish, caffeinated, indestructible feeling the franchise gives you and makes it glossy with expert visuals and oil slick controls. "A truly rare gem in a struggling industry," says Douse.

Plus, "Idk who is in charge of the Horizon Opus playlist," the Larian lead mentions, "but mans is really locked in. Clark & Max Richter but specifically November with Mari Samuelsen is an insane neoclassical get." I was personally moved by hearing my favorite harpist-princess Mary Lattimore in Spring. Watching my fiance race the little pink sports car I made him buy with Hello Kitty decals, I realize Forza Horizon 6 has something for everyone.

Forza Horizon 6 players waste no time finding a money glitch that lets you unlock all the cars and other rewards in mere hours.

There's something genuinely awe-inspiring about playing a game that vividly recreates a real-life setting. The New York City of Insomniac's recent Spider-Man games is a perfect example, and now we have the Tokyo of Forza Horizon 6, a recreation so good, even locals are astounded.

Not just any local residents, either. You've got game developers, such as Keiichiro Toyama, director of the first Silent Hill and creator of the Siren series. After spending some time in the new racer from Playground Games, he stepped out into Japan's capital and found it was like stepping into Forza Horizon 6 for real.

"I was like whoa, it’s Forza Horizon 6 in real life lol!" he tweeted, as translated by Automaton. He included some pictures taken of Tokyo in the evening time, to demonstrate just how well the developers have captured the lighting and local traffic of the bustling city.

Toyama is part of a growing chorus of Japanese people who're complimenting the game as such. "The mountains, the rice paddies, the utility poles! It's Japan in every sense," a fan posted on Twitter.

"Laughing because they even included those ridiculously spacious convenience parking lots you always see in the countryside," another player states, with an accompanying screenshot. "It's so Japanese, it's almost too Japanese. It feels like everyday life.," a third person adds.

Yuta Horie, an architect from Japan who lectures at Yokohama National University and Tokyo University of Science, provided a deeper analysis on Twitter of how Playground Games has managed to recreate the logic of the country's layout. "The meticulously recreated urban areas, suburbs, and countryside props form recognizable districts," he explains, as translated by Automaton.

"And at intersections in cities, features like chamfered corner buildings packed with small businesses and pedestrian overpasses create nodes," he continues, "while in rural areas wide bypass roads branch into narrow private roads and farm paths, forming another kind of node structure."

The next time you hop into Forza Horizon 6 for a spin, have a think about just how detailed the setting actually is. It's almost enough to inspire an impulsive holiday - almost.

Forza Horizon 6 players waste no time finding a money glitch that lets you unlock all the cars and other rewards in mere hours

The Forza Horizon 6 fast travel system is easy to use from your map and, best of all, it's free. It's a vast improvement compared to previous Forza Horizon games, which featured breakable Fast Travel Boards for discounts, but Forza Horizon 6 has thankfully streamlined it all to let you get around the massive Japan map much faster than driving. Below I've laid out everything you need to know about fast travel in FH6.

How Forza Horizon 6 fast travel works

To fast travel in Forza Horizon 6, open the map and hover the cursor over any road that you have previously driven on, then press X/Square to teleport to that exact spot. If a road on the map is grey, you haven’t driven on it before and therefore won't be able to fast travel there.

Best of all, fast travel is completely free, so you can move around as much as you want without having to pay any Credits! As mentioned, FH6 also doesn't feature Fast Travel Boards or a specific house with a perk that lets you fast travel more freely – all FH6 players can fast travel from the start, so long as some roads have been explored.

Once you've driven on a good number of the roads around the map, getting about becomes very easy, making finding things like Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Cars a fair bit simpler. You can also use fast travel to quickly go from race to race, which will help you efficiently build up Forza Horizon 6 money so you can afford some of the best cars in the game – the fastest Forza Horizon 6 cars are usually the most expensive!

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We are one day removed from the full launch of Forza Horizon 6, and people have already figured out a way to cheese progression. If you don't fancy grinding too much for funds in the racing sequel, there's a way of earning a lot of extra dosh, and experience along with it, and it's not too complicated either.

There are a couple of ways of getting this Forza Horizon 6 money farm, but they rely on the same fundamental principle. Essentially, you're placing certain cars on tracks designed to provide particularly high amounts of XP points and money, and then putting your vehicle on what mounts to auto-drive, and just watch those numbers go up and up.

The YouTuber XMBWesley demonstrates one way of achieving this. He uses the Impreza 22B-STI Version 1998 Subaru, because it has a number of bonuses that maximize the rewards. Then, you put the driving assists to custom, and have assisted braking, auto-steering and similar for each option.

Once you have those, you can use the code he provides for a custom track that contains a bunch of obstacles that'll rack up your XP. And that's it, in a nutshell - make your car auto-driving, put it on a track that has high amounts of rewards, and just do it over and over until you have what you want.

Streamer Tyler 'Sarthe' Robinson outlines an alternative, using the Forza edition of the Toyota Tacoma. Other than that, it's the same as XMBWesley, just with a different track code, thus slightly different results, but on the same principle.

You can't unlock everything through this method, because certain tracks and such are tied to specific modes and challenges. But you can use this to buy all the cars, and that's incentive enough.

Robinson notes that if you want to make use of this exploit, it's better to try sooner rather than later because it'll get patched. This renders regular progression almost totally perfunctory, and you can bet developer Playground Games will be remedying that. Until then, hit cruise control and relax.

Forza Horizon 6 pokes Nintendo's Pokemon lawyers with a nod to "that Japanese collecting game we're not allowed to name for legal reasons"

Turning Forza Horizon 6 car damage off is done through the game's settings menu and will keep your car in factory-new condition, even if you crash through a bamboo forest or smash into a building in Tokyo. By default, Forza Horizon 6 has only cosmetic car damage anyway, with cars suffering dents, scrapes, and cracked windows from violent driving. But there's even a Simulation option if you want a slightly more realistic approach to crash damage. Here's everything you need to know about car damage in Forza Horizon 6 and how to turn it off.

How to turn off Forza Horizon 6 car damage

To turn off all car damage in Forza Horizon 6, you need to open the Settings menu, then open the Difficulty tab. You'll then find the Damage & Tyre Wear option near the bottom of the list of Forza Horizon 6 assists and difficulty options and can switch it to 'None'. This means crashes and scrapes will not affect the appearance or performance of your cars.

There are also no real downsides to having damage switch off either, as it doesn't affect your difficulty bonus when it comes to Credits, so you can get Forza Horizon 6 money like normal.

For those sticking to the Cosmetic or Simulation options for car damage in FH6, there are a couple of ways you can reset damage to get your car looking and driving like it's brand new. In free-roam mode, you can open Photo Mode, press LB to Reset Cosmetic Damage, the close Photo Mode. Despite the wording, this button fully repairs your cars, including any component damage that affects its driving capabilities. Additionally, entering any of your houses or the Horizon Festival site main garage will fully repair your car too.

However, there is no way to repair your car or reset any damage it has taken during a race. Your only option is to use the Rewind feature to go back to before you took damage and then take avoiding action. This works well in races against the AI Drivatars but not so much in online races as you end up losing a lot of time to other players. Turning off the Damage & Tyre Wear option entirely is by far the best option, realism be damned!

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The best Forza Horizon 6 money farm methods are usually player-made eventlab races, but FH6 is pretty generous with its cash handouts anyway. You'll amass a pretty sizeable Credit fortune just by playing Forza Horizon 6, sampling all it has to offer and completing challenges. Bear in mind that the developers often try to limit the effectiveness of credit-farming exploits anyway and, let's face it, they're not exactly the most fun. However, if you're in need of Credits, here are the best things to do in Forza Horizon 6 to farm money.

Forza Horizon 6 money farm races

In Forza Horizon 6, there are plenty of player-created races designed to give you as many Credits as possible upon completion for minimal effort. All you need to do for these AFK and auto-drive-style eventlab races is turn all assists on, hold down the throttle, and let your car drive itself to the finish line, but bear in mind that the developers often crack down on and reduce the effectiveness of these races.

Here's how you can try these money races in Forza Horizon 6 for yourself, although as I've covered below, I don't think you need to:

1. Pause the game and navigate to the "Creative Hub" tab.
2. Select the 'Horizon eventlab' button, then 'Play Event', and you should see a bunch of Goliath-style long races for Credit and XP farming pop up.
3. Choose one and select or buy an eligible car. Some of them require X-rated cars with a rating of 999, and you can only achieve this rating with an appropriately powerful tuning setup, so you may have to pay Credits to install one of those as well as a car.
4. Before starting the race, turn all Forza Horizon 6 assists on, with Assisted Braking and Auto-Steering being the most important.
5. Start the race and just hold RT/R2 on controller or W on PC to accelerate.

Best ways to make money in Forza Horizon 6

You don't really need the above money farming methods as Forza Horizon 6 is pretty generous when it comes to handing out money anyway, with practically every activity in the game either giving you Credits as a reward or indirectly helping you get more through challenges and XP levelling, such as the following:

• Complete races: Finishing any race will get you a good amount of money in Forza Horizon 6, with longer races providing many more Credits. The difference in prize money from first and last place isn't as significant as you might think either, so winning isn't even essenital. So long as you go from race to race quickly, you should quite efficiently farm Credits while also making good progress with wristbands.
• Change your assists and difficulty: The Difficulty Bonus CR percentage you get from your assists and Drivatar difficulty can hugely increase your race winnings. To get the most Credits, it's best to play on the highest difficulty where you can still quite consistently win. Switching from Automatic gear shifting to Manual also increases this bonus by 15%, though it does make racing more complicated. You can of course also set the Drivatar difficulty to Unbeatable and then use the auto-driving combination of assists mentioned above to get around any race with minimal effort.
• Explore the map: As our Forza Horizon 6 tips mention, you get 100,000 Credits for every Region you fully de-fog on the map (10,000 CR for 25% cleared, then 30,000 CR for 50%, 75%, and 100%), so clearing all 10 Regions in the game is already 1,000,000 Credits. Then you also get 5,000 Credits for discovering every area and landmark on the map, of which there are 74, so that's an additional 370,000 CR.
• Get Wheelspins: Wheelspins and Super Wheelspins have a chance to award you with all sorts of Credit prizes (and even some of the best cars in Forza Horizon 6) with the highest amount I've seen being 250,000 CR. Obviously these are highly luck-dependant, but there are several ways to get Wheelspins that you should remember. You get them as you level up by earning XP, as rewards from certain Collection Journal challenges, and from Car Mastery perks on certain cars. I also recommend buying the Tokyo House to get one Wheelspin whenever you log in for the day.
• Complete a Forza Horizon 6 Treasure Hunt: These secret chests aren't always in the weekly Festival Playlist seasons but make sure you find them when they are for an easy 100,000 Credits. While you're at it, check out the Forza Horizon 6 Photo Challenge too.
• Complete Tokyo City Food Delivery jobs: While it's not the best of these money-making methods in FH6, the Raku Raku Express food delivery jobs found in Tokyo City are at least quick and simple. Completed jobs pay several thousand Credits, which increases based on the number of stars you've collected across your shift. As your delivery driver rank increases, you'll get even more Credits per job too, so it ends up being quite a useful way to get money and explore Tokyo City while you're at it.
• Destroy Regional Mascots: There are 200 of these food-themed mascots, with each one you destroy granting 5,000 Credits as a reward – that's 1,000,000 Credits in total.

It's also worth noting that paying to be a Forza Horizon 6 VIP comes with benefits that will substantially boost your Credit gains. Firstly, Credits you get as race rewards are doubled, massively improving your payouts, and you get one Super Wheelspin every week, which can help you get big cash prizes. That Tokyo House I mentioned earlier is also given to you for free!

But bear in mind that becoming a FH6 VIP is an optional extra that costs real money for $/£19.99. Or it can be purchased as part of the Premium Upgrade Bundle, which also includes two post-launch expansions, a couple of Car Packs, the Car Pass, and more. This bundle will set you back $/£59.99, so it's quite an expensive way to boost how many Credits you can get.

Whether you decide to buy VIP membership or not, using all the above methods to some extent should help you rake in Credits to buy some of the fastest Forza Horizon 6 cars.

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Forza fans have found a sneaky Pokemon reference within Forza Horizon 6's radio stations, with the game giving a cheeky nod to its history of lawsuits.

As posted by Twitter user wxrry, in Forza Horizon 6, the Hospital Records Radio station in-game – which has been a series staple since Forza Horizon 2 – features a bit of host banter about the game. The hosts encourage players to "grab your camera and snap 'em all" before saying, "it's like that Japanese collecting game we're not allowed to name for legal reasons."

Nintendo's legal team has been the subject of many a joke thanks to its strict approach to its IP, with it really kicking off around a decade ago with the DMCA strikes for Pokemon Uranium and AM2R (which stands for Another Metroid 2 Remake) and the subsequent removal of them at The Game Awards. And in recent years, The Pokemon Company has been another name people have been prone to joking about thanks to its ongoing lawsuit against Palworld developer PocketPair.

Granted, I don't really think this Forza joke is that deep. It's more than likely just a joke about making the reference to the game in the first place, rather than a direct jab at Nintendo's litigious history.

As far as I'm aware, the somewhat unintentionally hilarious "Mario and Princess Beach" line in Death Stranding never had any issues from Nintendo's camp, and I can't imagine a throwaway line would either. But at the very least, we got a good take on the classic Austin Powers in Goldmember Godzilla joke that I'm sure some will take very seriously.

Those of you who are playing Forza Horizon 6 be sure to check out the Forza Horizon 6 car list and where to get all of the Barn Finds and treasure cars. Sadly, I won't be joining you, as the Forza Horizon 6 PS5 release date is still a ways off.