{"id":87356,"date":"2026-08-10T13:59:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T17:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87356"},"modified":"2026-08-10T14:43:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T18:43:03","slug":"blizzard-is-reportedly-xboxs-new-top-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87356","title":{"rendered":"Blizzard Is Reportedly Xbox\u2019s New Top Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Out of all of Xbox’s studios (of which there are admittedly fewer now following mass layoffs and studio divestitures<\/a>), Blizzard is reportedly the “top performing.”<\/p>\n

That’s according to a new report from Windows Central<\/a> based on emails sent by Blizzard president Johanna Faries to staff last week. In the emails, Faries celebrated the studio’s performance ahead of BlizzCon in September, an event she hopes will “serve as a powerful springboard into a new era of momentum and excitement.”<\/p>\n

Faries went on to state Blizzard ended the 2026 fiscal year as the “top-performing studio in Xbox’s studios division, and this past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard’s history.”\u00a0Faries doesn’t elaborate on what exactly “top performing” means, but Blizzard saw its first consecutive years of growth since fiscal year 2017. Faries attributed the growth to two games specifically.<\/p>\n

“Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch drove exceptional performance in particular, with Overwatch delivering its strongest quarter since 2022,” Faries said.<\/p>\n

Both Diablo 4 and Overwatch have certainly had big years, as did World of Warcraft, which also released a new expansion earlier this year. Diablo 4’s latest expansion was well-received<\/a>, even if its latest season<\/p>\n

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Out of all of Xbox’s studios (of which there are admittedly fewer now following mass layoffs and studio divestitures), Blizzard is reportedly the “top performing.” That’s according to a new report from Windows Central based on emails sent by Blizzard president Johanna Faries to staff last week. In the emails, Faries celebrated the studio’s performance…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":87358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87356","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\/87356"}],"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\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87359,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87356\/revisions\/87359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}