After the announcement of theacquisitionthe core team of Xbox he went to do visit to the Activision Blizzard teamsto get to know each other and demonstrate their closeness to the developers, as also demonstrated by some group photos.
In the post below, in particular, the president of Blizzard Mike Ybarra welcomes the CEO of Microsoft Gaming Phil Spencer and the head of Xbox Game Studios, Matt Booty, to the company’s campus, in an extended group photo in which hundreds of developers can be glimpsed in the area in front of the offices.
However, it was an event considered “unofficial” and “low profile”, considering that it was not widely publicized through official communications, but Spencer’s intention was to start establishing relationships with those who are, at all effects, new first party teams from Xbox Game Studios.
First meetings
On the other hand, Mike Ybarra himself is an old acquaintance of Xbox, having worked within the Microsoft division for a long time before moving to Blizzard.
The intention of the Xbox team, at the moment, is simply to prove itself present and be a “source of trust”, based on what was reported by those directly involved, while for more precise programs it is still early, given that the acquisition is not technically finished yet.
It should also be noted that Activision and Blizzard have in some way been “detach“, at least at the level of representation of the brands, on this occasion, as demonstrated by the promotional panel of the initiative which shows the Xbox logo together with Blizzard only, without also mentioning Activision, on the occasion of this visit to the Irvine headquarters in California .
In any case, Ybarra and Blizzard proved to be very satisfied with the new situation of the company after the acquisition by Microsoft, waiting to see the first effects.
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