Xbox’s Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond are leaving Microsoft, Asha Sharma is the new CEO of Microsoft Gaming
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Microsoft is seeing some major leadership changes: Phil Spencer, CEO of Microsoft Gaming, and Sarah Bond, president of Xbox, are both departing. Asha Sharma, currently leading Microsoft’s CoreAI product, will take over as CEO of Microsoft Gaming. Matt Booty, who heads Xbox Game Studios, will become Chief Content Officer for Microsoft Gaming. These changes are significant for the gaming industry as a whole, and will particularly impact major RPG developers like Obsidian, Blizzard, inXile Entertainment, and Bethesda, all of which are part of Xbox Game Studios.





