According to multiple recently leaked internal e-mails, Blizzard Entertainment is currently the best performing studio at Xbox, as it’s president had celebrated it’s return to growth ahead of BlizzCon 2026. The venerable studio owes a lot of it’s success to both Overwatch and Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred which is the second DLC expansion for the 2023 game, as these two titles have particularly driven “exceptional performance” for the studio. On the basis of multiple leaked emails as reported by Windows Central, Blizzard president Johanna Faries announced that as per FY 2026, they became the top performing studio for Xbox, while achieving the company’s third-highest annual revenue ever.
“In FY26 Blizzard ended the year as the top-performing studio in Xbox’s studios division,” the leaked emails stated, “and this past year has marked our third highest fiscal for top line revenue in Blizzard’s history.”
“FY25 and FY26 were our first back-to-back years of growth since FY17. Diablo 4: Lord of Hatred and Overwatch drove exceptional performance in particular, with Overwatch delivering its strongest quarter since 2022.”
“It’s my hope that the event can shine a light on the work underway at Blizzard,” the email read, “and that it can serve as a powerful springboard into a new era of momentum and excitement behind our mission to bring joy and belonging for communities worldwide.”
Faries also stated that the recent successes will help “shape Blizzard’s future,” which is largely unknown as of now, although according to the reports of Windows Central, the company is currently developing multiple mobile spinoff titles and various other trans-media projects while at the same time working on the next mainline Diablo entry. Hopefully the upcoming BlizzCon 2026 will offer more insights on the studio’s current projects when it takes place September 12 – 13, 2026.
Xbox is currently going through a massive restructuring process that has resulted in mass layoffs and has seen a total of 1600 staff losing their jobs several weeks back and 3200 employees scheduled to be let go by the end of the current fiscal year.
