Guide · 19 May 2026
Your first wristband, without the rush
Finish the Horizon Qualifiers, then the Horizon Invitational. That pair puts the first band on your wrist and unlocks the Festival Playlist. Later bands ask for a Showcase or a Horizon Rush. There are seven bands in total. Gold is the one that opens Legend Island.
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Patch · 10 Aug 2026
What Series 4 actually added
Horizon Mascot Party listed ten series reward cars. Three were new to Horizon: the 1970 Honda N600, the 2024 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, and the 2018 Exomotive Exocet Sport V8 XP-5. Series 1, Welcome to Japan, had already closed on 18 June, Furai included.
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Studio · 25 Sep 2025
The night Japan was confirmed
Playground Games, the Leamington Spa studio behind Horizon since 2010, showed the next destination on the Xbox Tokyo Game Show stream. A follow-up on 23 October 2025 pointed to a 2026 launch and day one on Game Pass. The cover cars arrived later, on the 22 January 2026 Developer Direct.
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