Forza co-creator Dan Greenawalt is reportedly leaving Microsoft

The Verge reports that Dan Greenawalt, studio head of Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10, is planning to retire after nearly 27 years, quoting an internal memo from Trevor Williams of Playground Games. “Dan Greenawalt has decided that this is the right time for him to retire from Microsoft,” Williams is reported to have said, clarifying that Greenawalt will stay on temporarily as an adviser during a changeover period.

Microsoft announced in September that it plans to merge Turn 10 and Playground, the two Forza studios, into one entity as part of the same restructure that will merge Obsidian into Bethesda and hand Halo over to Activision. Oh, and that restructure will also see another 268 employees being laid off.

Turn 10 had already been turned into a support studio for Playground’s Forza Horizon following the 2023 reboot of Forza Motorsport, with former developer Fred Russell saying last year that the Motorsport series died in a prior round of cuts at Microsoft.