… Scott will begin ramping up now and formally start after Showcase.” Sharma is also promoting Chris Schnakenberg to corporate vice president of partnerships and business development as part of today’s Xbox leadership changes. These are the second major Xbox leadership changes in a matter of weeks. …
… Xbox is now XBOX. Microsoft is actually rebranding Xbox to an all caps version. After running a poll on X, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma made the change internally last week. We’re now starting to see the Xbox social media accounts read XBOX and even Xbox Game Pass is now XBOX Game Pass. …
… Microsoft was clearly ready for the obvious reaction from gamers to a bunch of AI people joining Xbox, so hours after the leadership changes memo Sharma announced that the mobile Copilot gaming feature would be scrapped and that development of Copilot for Xbox consoles will cease. …
… Microsoft is giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address. After scrapping Microsoft Gaming and promising Xbox employees that “We are Xbox,” Microsoft is now giving its Xbox employees an Xbox email address. …
… Xbox mode is nearly here for all PCs. Microsoft just added its Xbox mode to the Release Preview version of Windows 11. That means the Xbox mode, which adds a full-screen interface to the Xbox PC app, is just days away from being available on all PCs. …