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Former Forza boss Alan Hartman has been appointed head of Xbox Game Studios

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Microsoft has appointed former Turn 10 boss Alan Hartman as its new head of Xbox Game Studios.

Hartman, who joined the Forza Motorsport developer back in 2005, had spent the last two years working as corporate vice president of Forza and Fable.

“Thrilled to be representing such an elite set of game creators in my new role leading Xbox Game Studios!” he wrote on LinkedIn.
Hartman’s promotion follows several recently announced Xbox leadership changes.

He is taking on the role previously held by Matt Booty, who has been promoted to president of game content and studios, a role which incorporates overseeing the work of ZeniMax and Bethesda.

Sarah Bond was also promoted from corporate vice president at Xbox to Xbox president. In her new role, she has taken over the running of the division’s hardware and software platforms.

The leadership changes also coincide with Microsoft finally completing its $69 million acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
Earlier this week, Xbox announced a multi-year deal with Inworld to build AI dialogue and narrative tools at scale.

Haiyan Zhang, Xbox’s general manager of gaming AI, said the goal of the partnership is to create new state-of-the-art tools for multiplatform developers of all sizes.
 

Tams

Member
Getting pretty bloated up at the top of the greasy exec pole over there.

Philly S. had better watch his back (or rather feet for grabbers on).
 

Elysium44

Banned
This is hilarious, he is the man most responsible for Forza Motorsport's sustained sharp decline in quality over the last ten years, he is the last person you would want anywhere near the levers of power at Xbox.
 

StueyDuck

Member
Does he know what publishers to buy though?

The answer is easy. It's all of them, Phil only will accept all of them
 

quest

Not Banned from OT
This is hilarious, he is the man most responsible for Forza Motorsport's sustained sharp decline in quality over the last ten years, he is the last person you would want anywhere near the levers of power at Xbox.
Depends on what he is doing. If he will lead technology sharing between studios which Microsoft is way behind he be a good person. Turn 10 and playground share technology seamlessly. If he can bring that across all xbox studios that be a huge win.
 

Punished Miku

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Feels like too many management layers, unless he’s been looking at the Turn 10 - Playground ForzaTech integration.
They have a shitload of studios. It's not the end of the world to have people looking at shit to make sure it's working out. They just have to all be on the same page hopefully.
 

Elysium44

Banned
The previous Forza Motorsport title was well received, and his role also covered Forza Horizon series so…

FM7 was a failure and heavily panned on release. FM 2023 is even worse. He bears ultimate responsibility, with (dis)honourable mentions for Greenawalt and Esaki. These people should be fired, not promoted.

There is no better evidence than this that Phil doesn't know what he's doing. I don't think Xbox has a good future.
 
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