It looks like Microsoft could be acquiring Playground Games, the studio behind the Forza Horizon series.

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As spotted by WCCFTech , an update on the studio's Companies House page , dated May 29, lists Keith Dolliver as a new director of Playground Games. Companies House is a UK government website that holds details for all registered companies in the country.Dolliver, Vice President and Deputy General Counsel at Microsoft Corporation, specialises in mergers and acquisitions according to his LinkedIn profile . He has previously been appointed as director of a number of other companies that Microsoft acquired, including Rare, Lionhead, and Skype.With a renewed focus on investing in studios to make more first party games , and rumours of a new Fable game reportedly in development at Playground , the acquisition would make sense for Microsoft right now. Playground's Forza titles are exclusive to Xbox and PC, and the Fable series has always been a Microsoft exclusive.Coupled with the Companies House update, it seems that an official announcement of the addition of Playground to Microsoft's stable might be on the way.

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