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Forza Horizon 2 at 12: The Breakthrough Xbox Never Recaptured
Released in September 2014 on a struggling Xbox One, Forza Horizon 2 restored credibility to the brand after the Don Mattrick-Kinect disaster. Twelve years later, Playground Games still exists, but Microsoft never replicated the method that produced this turnaround at the same scale.
#Playground Games#Microsoft#Xbox One
Lumnix Editorial··3 min read

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Freefall Racers: Kinect Exclusive Returns Without Kinect or Xbox
Freefall Racers, a racing game built for Xbox One's Kinect sensor, resurfaces in a version stripped of all motion detection hardware. This comeback raises a real question: how do you revive an entire genre killed by a peripheral's death, and what does it say about the fate of abandoned Kinect exclusives since the end of the Xbox One era.
#racing game#port#preservation
Lumnix Editorial··3 min read