Forza Apex paves the way for future Forza games on PC

Forza Motorsport 6 Apex is a free, "curated" version of Forza Motorsport 6. What it isn't is the full version of Turn 10's most recent Forza. At last week's Xbox Spring Showcase, I asked Turn 10 creative director Dan Greenawalt about Phil Spencer's statement that, "we don’t think Forza 6 is what the PC racing fan thinks of as a racing franchise," and whether Apex's success could mean more Forza on PC.

Ultimately, Apex started out as a technical exercise. "What we started doing, because we're first party, is porting our engine over to DirectX 12," says Greenawalt. "Partially because we knew DirectX 12 was part of our future, but also because we want to make DirectX 12 better as a platform for developers and for gamers. We then started to do the same thing for [Universal Windows Platform], and we decided we should put those in the same branch."

The upshot is Turn 10 now has a version of their engine that uses DirectX 12 and UWP, which means future games should come to both Xbox One and Windows 10.

Phil has been writing for PC Gamer for nearly a decade, starting out as a freelance writer covering everything from free games to MMOs. He eventually joined full-time as a news writer, before moving to the magazine to review immersive sims, RPGs and Hitman games. Now he leads PC Gamer's UK team, but still sometimes finds the time to write about his ongoing obsessions with Destiny 2, GTA Online and Apex Legends. When he's not levelling up battle passes, he's checking out the latest tactics game or dipping back into Guild Wars 2. He's largely responsible for the whole Tub Geralt thing, but still isn't sorry.