Internal memo: Xbox hires game industry analyst Matthew Ball as chief strategy officer, and names Scott Van Vliet, who led Azure AI infrastructure, as Xbox CTO
The second major Xbox leadership changes this month. … Microsoft has recruited game industry analyst Matthew Ball as Xbox chief strategy officer.
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Xbox expands leadership team with major hires
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Xbox Hires New Exec To ‘Strengthen The Console Side’ Of The Business
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That's quite a world class team being assembled and foreshadows serious dedication to the future of gaming for Windows, Xbox, Minecraft, Call of Duty, and the many world class studios in the Microsoft family.
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Matthew Ball, author of the famous 2020 essay (and later book) on the evolution of gaming toward the metaverse, has joined Microsoft as Chief Strategy Officer for gaming. https://www.matthewball.co/...
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microsoft is getting back on the metaverse train
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Xbox expands leadership team with two new major hires. — Matthew Ball is joining as Chief Strategy Officer and Scott Van Vliet joins as Chief Technology Officer. — www.thegamebusiness.com/p/xbox- expan... [image]