Maverick Games is confident that Clutch can cut through the noise. When Forza Horizon 5 director Mike Brown exited Playground Games with a cadre of the studio's senior leadership team in 2022, the intention was to create a different type of open-world racing game. Now, little over three years of development time later, and with Maverick having been the victim of publisher Amazon Game Studios' shifting priorities, the newly independent team is finally ready to reveal its work to the world.