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Overwatch and Diablo Reportedly Helped Blizzard Become the 'Top-Performing' Xbox Studio With 'Back-to-Back Years of Growth'

A leaked internal email says Overwatch and Diablo 4 drove Blizzard’s strongest financial quarter since 2022, helping it lead Xbox studios in FY26.

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Blizzard Entertainment is reportedly Microsoft's golden child after Overwatch and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred helped it become the "top-performing" Xbox studio.The World of Warcraft game developer's president, Johanna Faries, celebrated its status in leaked emails reported on by Windows Central. On the heels of a lackluster earnings report for Xbox, she was said to have told staff that Blizzard is firing on all cylinders."In FY26 Blizzard ended the…

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Xbox doesn't go for its best.The report for the last quarter of the fiscal year shows that there has been a general fall of 11% because franchises like Call of Duty and Candy Crush didn't give up as Microsoft expected between 2025 and the first half of this 2026.Luckily for Redmond's, there is a company that surpassed the forecasts and that is branded as the best performance within the Xbox organizational chart.It's Blizzard Entertainment, which…

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Wowhead broke the news on Sunday, August 9, 2026.
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