Horizon Forbidden West's long-rumored DLC expansion Burning Shores has finally been announced at The Game Awards, taking Aloy on yet another robot dino-slaying quest on April 19, 2023.
The quick trailer showed Aloy flying through the sky on a robot bird, revealing a large open area before coming across the Hollywood sign, confirming that the DLC is set in LA. We then see the Hollywood sign come to life to attack Aloy, implying that it's some kind of boss to face within the expansion. We didn't get much more information besides that, although we can probably assume there will be plenty of other massive robots to take down on the Burning Shores.
Thankfully, the official YouTube trailer for the Burning Shores expansion includes a little bit more context to speclate over. It reads, "Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores sees Aloy pursue a sinister threat in the untamed wilds of Los Angeles, now a treacherous volcanic archipelago."
It was pretty much expected that Horizon Forbidden West would be getting a DLC expansion at some point, as Sylens actor Lance Reddick teased as much in a now-deleted tweet of himself waering mo-cap. Reddick isn't inolved in any other titles that we know of, so it pretty much pointed to new Forbidden West content in the near future. From this we can also assume that Sylens, and presumably all of Aloy's other friends, will play a part in the DLC in some capacity
We also got a second, much more concrete hint from reliable industry insider The Snitch. With a 100 percent accurate track record, they posted a cryptic tweet a few days ago of a Focus on top of a map pointing towards San Francisco, the location in which most of Forbidden West takes place. This was then backed up by another report, which claimed the DLC would be called Burning Shores. With today's announcement, it looks like The Snitch's record remains firmly intact.
If you want to play the original game before the expansion releases, it's currently available for both PS4 and PS5.