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Xbox One gamers who really like the racing game Forza Motorsport 5 have something to be excited about this week. The game has received its very first track add-on. That means that the game has a brand new race track for you to play on.

The new track is a good one too. Located in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, Road America is a is one of the best race tracks in the U.S., with lots of great elevation changes, challenging blind spots, and some good long straightaways.

The track is integrated into the Career mode of the game. Players can also play the new track in rivals mode and multiplayer events. The track promises spectacular details from the real track with long straights for high speeds and challenging corners. The track is available at no cost to download right now.

Microsoft already talked up how the cloud component of its Xbox One console will work, but now we're hearing of the benefits from the dev's side. The verdict is certainly positive so far, with Dan Greenawalt, creative director for Forza 5, extolling its virtues, citing it as a "tremendous opportunity" in a recent interview with OXM. His team has been using it to take care of a lot of the AI elements in the game -- such as its Drivatar system -- which he claims would usually take up about 10 - 20 percent of the console's processing power. By letting the cloud deal with it, however, it can spill out into much greater complexity, with Greenawalt claiming a boost equivalent to "600 percent" of the actual Xbox's brains. This, in turn, freeing up the 10 - 20 percent it would have used for something else. Bold statement, of course, but with the early signals looking good, this is one feature we're glad still made the cut.

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Source: OXM

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Forza Motorsport 5 Gets Its First Track Add-on with Road America