Dan Greenawalt, head of Turn 10 Studios, is expected to retire after nearly 27 years at Microsoft. The news was reported in an internal memo from Playground Games’ Trevor Williams, cited by The Verge. Greenawalt will remain temporarily as an adviser during the transition.Williams thanked the executive for his contributions. Greenawalt was involved in the launch of Project Gotham Racing on the original Xbox in 2001, led the creation of Forza and founded Turn 10. He also appeared onstage at Microsoft’s E3 presentations several times, sometimes arriving in a supercar.The possible departure comes as Microsoft reorganizes its teams working on the franchise. In September, the company announced plans to bring Turn 10 and Playground Games under one organization. The move is part of a broader restructuring that also calls for Obsidian to be integrated into Bethesda and the Halo series to be transferred to Activision.The process is accompanied by job cuts at Microsoft, which are expected to affect another 268 employees. The report also notes that Turn 10 had already shifted to supporting Playground’s Forza Horizon after the 2023 reboot of Forza Motorsport.Last year, former developer Fred Russell said the Forza Motorsport series had died in an earlier round of company layoffs. The article does not say whether Greenawalt will leave Microsoft immediately: he will remain an adviser during the transition as the Forza teams move toward a unified structure.With information from PC Gamer.
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