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Microsoft Gaming

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Formerly Name: N/A

Company Profile: Developer & Publisher

Company Type:: Division

Parent Company: Microsoft Corporation

Headquarters: Redmnond, Washington, USA

Founded: 18 January 2022

Founder: Phil Spencer

Fate: Active


Microsoft Gaming is a multinational video game and digital entertainment division of Microsoft. Microsoft Gaming produces the Xbox brand of video game consoles and services, in addition to overseeing the production, game development, publishing, research and development, sales (hardware, software, and services) of Xbox and the division's three subsidiaries (publishers) worldwide. The three subsidiaries consist of: Xbox Game StudiosZeniMax Media (Bethesda Softworks acts as publisher), and Activision Blizzard (publishing split between ActivisionBlizzard Entertainment, and King), each publish games under their own respective labels. CEO Phil Spencer, who has concurrently overseen the Xbox brand since 2014, is the leader of the division.

 

Prior to 2022, Microsoft had several areas of video game-related product lines, including Xbox hardware, Xbox operations, and game development studios. Microsoft Gaming was created in 2022 with the announcement of Microsoft's plans to acquire Activision Blizzard to unify all of Microsoft's gaming groups within a single division. With the completion of the Activision Blizzard acquisition in 2023, Microsoft Gaming makes Microsoft the third-largest gaming company worldwide by revenue and the largest video game employer in the United States.

Wikipedia contributors. "Microsoft Gaming." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2 Feb. 2024.


Company Structure

Subsidiaries:

  • Xbox Game Studios:

    • 343 industries

    • Compulsion Games

    • Double Fine

    • Digital Legends Entertainment

    • inXile Entertainment

    • Mojang Studios

    • Ninja Theory

    • Obsidian Entertainment

    • Playground Games

    • Rare

    • The Coalition

    • The Initiative

    • Turn 10 Studios

    • Undead Labs

    • World's Edge

    • Xbox Game Studios Publishing

  • ZeniMax Media::

    • Alpha Dog Games

    • Arkane Studios

    • Bethesda Softworks

      • Bethesda Game Studios

    • id Software

    • MachineGames

    • Roundhouse Studios

    • Tango Gameworks

    • ZeniMax Online Studios

  • Activision Blizzard:

    • Activision

      • Activision Shanghai Studio​

      • Beenox

      • Demonware

      • Digital Legends Entertainment

      • High Moon Studios

      • Infinity Ward

      • Radical Entertainment

      • Raven Software

      • Slefgehammer Games

      • Solid State Studios

      • Toys for Bob

      • Treyarch

    • Blizzard Entertainment​

      • Blizzard Albany

      • Proletariat

  • King

  • Major League Gaming

  • Activision Blizzard Studios


Key People: 

  • Phil Spencer (chief executive officer)

  • Dave McCarty (chief operating officer)

  • Jerret West (corporate vice president and chief marketing officer)

  • Tim Stuart (chief financial officer)

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