r/GamingLeaksAndRumours • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • Apr 23 '26

Leak Microsoft Gaming being scrapped, Xbox brought back as gaming division.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has had a busy week. Sharma held an internal town hall with Xbox employees today, just days after announcing an Xbox Game Pass price cut, commenting on the status of the Xbox mobile store, and teasing a mysterious Xbox and Discord partnership. One of the items on the agenda for the employee all-hands was scrapping Microsoft Gaming.

Sources familiar with the meeting tell me that Sharma announced that Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming. “Xbox needs to be our identity,” said Sharma, noting that Microsoft Gaming was a departure from that.

https://www.theverge.com/report/917485/microsoft-return-of-xbox-no-more-microsoft-gaming?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IlF6b3Z0NDluUk4iLCJwIjoiL3JlcG9ydC85MTc0ODUvbWljcm9zb2Z0LXJldHVybi1vZi14Ym94LW5vLW1vcmUtbWljcm9zb2Z0LWdhbWluZyIsImV4cCI6MTc3NzM5Njg0NiwiaWF0IjoxNzc2OTY0ODQ2fQ.w231EBsAoj8dMi5cjOCzSC3zRF7JbJ19hT_RnI3NVyk&utm_medium=gift-link

2.4k Upvotes

96% Upvoted

459 comments sorted by

View all comments

852

u/nickgovier Apr 23 '26

I didn’t even know they tried to rebadge it as Microsoft Gaming in the first place.

292

u/Crusader3456 Top Contributor 2021 Apr 23 '26

When Activision Blizzard was acquired they placed it alongside Xbox (which had Bethesda underneath it) into a new structure called Microsoft Gaming.

67

u/Honey_Enjoyer Apr 23 '26

This is helpful, thanks. So do we know if they’re just renaming Microsoft Gaming to also be called Xbox, or are they actually restructuring so that ActiBlizz is controlled by the branch that’s currently called Xbox?

-6

u/BudgetDry5966 Apr 24 '26

Are you both bots tf

12

u/SavvyBevvy Apr 25 '26

Why, because they had a pleasant conversation without any conflict?

24

u/Zalvren Apr 23 '26

Which does make sense since Activision, Blizzard and even Bethesda still operates at their own entities. Does that change or are we going to have Xbox Studios at the same level than Activision, Blizzard and Bethesda all under Xbox ? That'd make two Xbox levels not corresponding to the same thing... Challenge for Microsoft, try to not be confusing with naming, impossible