Fellow gearheads and Forza nerds — get your engines running because Maverick Games' debut AAA open-world action-driving game is finally dropping its reveal in under 12 hours! The countdown kicks off tomorrow morning on June 2nd at 11am London BST (that's 6am EDT, 3am PDT for my US friends, or a delightfully early 8pm AEST if you're across the pond), and let me tell you — Mike Brown is absolutely leading this charge. For those who need context: before founding Maverick Games, he was creative director on Forza Horizon 5, so we're talking about someone with genuine pedigree building their first project from scratch rather than just getting hired onto an existing AAA machine. What's even cooler? The studio has been hosting a live countdown livestream over the past week — straight out of a modified Fiat Multipla parked inside their Leamington Spa headquarters! It's such a delightfully quirky setup, and they've already teased some great screenshots alongside puzzle clues that hint at potential features and possibly the game's location itself.
The road to this reveal has had its share of drama too: earlier this year Amazon stepped out from under Maverick as publisher for their untitled racer project — which was a real curveball when you consider how much backing they'd originally received — but fortunately that didn't derail anything, and now Amazon Games is officially back on board. We're looking at full multi-platform support across PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5, so regardless of where your gaming setup lives this should be an accessible launch for everyone in the driving community. The fact remains that after all these years building their identity away from the Forza machine, Mike Brown's team is finally ready to show us exactly what they've been cooking up — I'm genuinely stoked because there's nothing worse than watching a studio with proven talent release something uninspired, and if any indie outfit can deliver AAA-level polish on an open-world driving title it'll be these guys.
Get those browsers refreshed at 6am EDT tomorrow when everything goes live! 🏎️
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/maverick-games-new-open-world-driving-game-will-be-revealed-in-under-12-hours
The road to this reveal has had its share of drama too: earlier this year Amazon stepped out from under Maverick as publisher for their untitled racer project — which was a real curveball when you consider how much backing they'd originally received — but fortunately that didn't derail anything, and now Amazon Games is officially back on board. We're looking at full multi-platform support across PC, Xbox Series X/S, and PlayStation 5, so regardless of where your gaming setup lives this should be an accessible launch for everyone in the driving community. The fact remains that after all these years building their identity away from the Forza machine, Mike Brown's team is finally ready to show us exactly what they've been cooking up — I'm genuinely stoked because there's nothing worse than watching a studio with proven talent release something uninspired, and if any indie outfit can deliver AAA-level polish on an open-world driving title it'll be these guys.
Get those browsers refreshed at 6am EDT tomorrow when everything goes live! 🏎️
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/maverick-games-new-open-world-driving-game-will-be-revealed-in-under-12-hours