{"id":87313,"date":"2026-08-09T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T20:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87313"},"modified":"2026-08-09T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T22:36:36","slug":"blizzard-reportedly-leads-xbox-as-top-performing-studio-thanks-to-overwatch-and-diablo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87313","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Reportedly Leads Xbox as ‘Top-Performing’ Studio Thanks to Overwatch and Diablo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Blizzard Entertainment is reportedly Microsoft’s golden child after Overwatch<\/a> and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred<\/a> helped it become the “top-performing” Xbox studio.<\/p>\n

The World of Warcraft game developer’s president, Johanna Faries, celebrated its status in leaked emails reported on by Windows Central<\/a>. On the heels of a lackluster earnings report<\/a> for Xbox, she was said to have told staff that Blizzard is firing on all cylinders.<\/p>\n

“In FY26 Blizzard ended the year as the top-performing studio in Xbox’s studios division,” Faries’ leaked emails stated, “and this past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard’s history.”<\/p>\n

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Blizzard’s president then went on to confirm that FY25 and FY26 marked the studio’s “first back-to-back years of growth since FY17.” That’s nearly 10 years without that kind of growth brought to an end thanks to two games in particular.<\/p>\n

Blizzard oversees a wealth of IP, but only two “drove exceptional performance” in particular: Overwatch and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred. The latter, the second DLC expansion for 2023’s Diablo 4<\/a>, launched in April of this year. It built upon its critically acclaimed action-RPG dungeon-crawler foundation with more story content, a new region, the Paladin and Warlock classes, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blizzard Entertainment is reportedly Microsoft’s golden child after Overwatch and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred helped it become the “top-performing” Xbox studio. The World of Warcraft game developer’s president, Johanna Faries, celebrated its status in leaked emails reported on by Windows Central. On the heels of a lackluster earnings report for Xbox, she was said…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":87315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87313"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87317,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87313\/revisions\/87317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}