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Trevor Williams
Studio head of Playground Video games
It is arduous to overstate Dan’s influence over the previous 27 years. From delivery Venture Gotham Racing on the unique XBOX in 2001 to main the creation of Forza, founding Flip 10 Studios and showing so many instances on our E3 stage, often making a dramatic entrance with a supercar in tow—and a lot extra—we owe super thanks and gratitude to Dan. On behalf of each groups, I want to thank Dan for his management, his assist, and his partnership. I want him nicely for no matter comes subsequent.
Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor
The Verge stories that Dan Greenawalt, studio head of Forza Motorsport developer Flip 10, is planning to retire after practically 27 years, quoting an inner memo from Trevor Williams of Playground Video games. “Dan Greenawalt has determined that that is the fitting time for him to retire from Microsoft,” Williams is reported to have mentioned, clarifying that Greenawalt will keep on quickly as an adviser throughout a changeover interval.
Microsoft introduced in September that it plans to merge Flip 10 and Playground, the 2 Forza studios, into one entity as a part of the identical restructure that can merge Obsidian into Bethesda and hand Halo over to Activision. Oh, and that restructure may also see one other 268 staff being laid off.
Flip 10 had already been changed into a assist studio for Playground’s Forza Horizon following the 2023 reboot of Forza Motorsport, with former developer Fred Russell saying final 12 months that the Motorsport sequence died in a previous spherical of cuts at Microsoft.
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