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How Microsoft’s Turn 10 fashioned the A.I. for cars in Forza Motorsport 5 (interview)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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This is part of our ongoing series about games and trends of the upcoming next generation.

Microsoft has been touting the “Drivatar” of Forza Motorsport 5 ever since it started talking about the Xbox One game console. The Drivatar uses cloud processing, or extra cycles available in Microsoft’s web-connected data centers, or cloud, to calculate artificial intelligence for the cars that you race against in Forza.

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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.