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About Playground Games
Playground Games is a Leamington Spa studio founded in 2010 and acquired by Microsoft in 2018, making it part of Xbox Game Studios. It is best known for the Forza Horizon open-world racing series, which it has developed since the first game in 2012.
The studio has since expanded into a second team working on a new Fable game, reviving the fantasy role-playing series originally created by Lionhead. Playground is one of the larger developers in the Leamington area and hires experienced staff across engine and gameplay programming, open-world and vehicle art, design, animation, audio, writing, production and quality assurance.
- Type
- Developer
- Based in
- Leamington Spa, Midlands, England
- Website
- playground-games.com
- Open roles today
- 17
- Roles closed in the last 30 days
- 2
Open roles at Playground Games
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Hiring snapshot
- Live roles
- 17
- New in the last 30 days
- 847% of live roles
- Remote-friendly
- 0%0 of 17 roles
- Roles listing a salary
- 0most studios don’t publish pay
By discipline
- Design4
- Engineering3
- Art2
- Marketing & Community2
- Production/Leadership2
- Animation1
By level
- Mid-level13
- Senior3
- Lead / principal1
Calculated from today’s live listings, rebuilt every morning from studios’ own careers pages. Levels are read from job titles.
Recently closed roles
Roles Playground Games advertised in the last 30 days that have since closed or been filled — a guide to the kind of people it hires.
- Community Support Manager - Agency Contract Marketing & Community last seen 8 Nov 2026
- Vehicle Artist - Agency Contract Art last seen 18 Oct 2026
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