Forza Motorsport 7 hands-on — 4K racing is fast and immersive

Forza Motorsport 7 is just a couple of weeks away from its launch, and fans of the billion-dollar racing franchise are looking forward to playing the series in 4K for the very first time.

The title debuts on October 3 on the Xbox One and Windows 10, with crossplay enabled between the platforms. The deluxe edition will be out on September 29, and Microsoft showed me a final version of the game on an Xbox One X at a preview event. It may not be a shooter or a big role-playing game, but it’s probably the best thing that Microsoft can show off as it launches its Xbox One X console on November 7.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.