An interesting Xbox job post has been spotted online today, leading to questions about whether this role is for an unannounced team or project over at Xbox Game Studios. Microsoft is looking for "an experienced Executive Producer" to "lead a game team" - but what that team is within Xbox remains a mystery at this time.
Furthermore, Microsoft isn't accepting applications for this role until late February, which hints that this is a project being spun up and prepared for an Executive Producer to come aboard and lead. The post also mentions "the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area" as potential work areas for this role.
"Xbox is looking for an experienced Executive Producer / Production Leader to join a game development team. In this senior leadership role, you will lead a game team to their peak performance, health, and well-being.
As Executive Producer / Production Leader you responsible for delivering a quality, commercially successful title, steering game development team(s) to deliver polished, high quality game experiences by ensuring the team has the clarity, energy, and structure needed to be successful.
There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area,"
This role was first spotted by well-known leaker eXtas1s, who themselves went on to speculate about what this could be. Roughly translated, the insider claimed that a job post like this "usually happens when it's a completely new and unannounced studio", speculating that it also could be "one piece of a much BIGGER project" in the works.
Another option is that this could be an 'overseer' role of some sort, especially with the post mentioning a few different potential work locations and the act of "steering game development team(s)". This would also make sense in terms of not naming a specific team, as multiple Xbox developers could come under this leadership role.
Anyway, whatever this turns out to be, we hope that Xbox has plenty of surprises cooking over at Microsoft HQ. The team's recent games pipeline has been pretty good, and we have faith that there's lots more to come.
Thoughts on the wording of this job post, folks? Talk to us about it down below.
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And then in 2 months they'll announce the game. Then in 1 year there will be a trailer, and then in 4 years there will be a delay, and in 6 years a new creative director, then in 8 years a gameplay trailer. In 9 years a second delay, and 11 years the game will release. 7/10 on metacritic.
@armondo36 I think we're past those sorts of issues now. MS have found a solid footprint since the first Dev Direct two years back, and they've been in a stronger position for a long long while imo.
I wonder what this relates to? One thing MS could do with is some strength in the horror genre and the platformer genre.
It's not worth speculating what the project is right now. It's probably in very early stage. What does interest me is that they're hiring outside talent to LEAD and supposedly already have a dev team. Is that a common occurrence in the industry?
@armondo36 The last time Xbox did this was when they JUST finished putting together Xbox Game Studios back in 2019. Now they're able to announce major AAA games for the FIRST TIME in a showcase and have them release the following year or in the same year. Early announcements happened to get investors interested by showing gamer interest. Xbox has a massive first party content pipeline. I think they have one of the biggest now. Before all their studio aquistions in 2018 they had like 5 studios and they only internally put them together and formed Xbox Game Studios in 2019. This meant that they wouldn't have much done soon (especially not after COVID hit), but the new generation was starting in 2020 and they needed to build excitement so they announced early as had been normal in the game industry. In 2025 Xbox first party is huge with studios across Xbox Game Studios (with all the newly purchased ones being ready to deliver on projects), Bethesda Game Studios, Activision, Blizzard, and King, and all the partner published projects in the works. There will 100% be leaks and speculation, but I don't expect an official announcement until the project is no more than 2 years out.
@Kaloudz We're still getting the horror collab game between Peele and Kojima, and Toys4Bob is working on something as part of a contract with Xbox which IIRC was rumored to be a platformer. We'll see though. I certainly don't think there's such a thing as too many of either genre (and one entry a ways off isn't exactly a lot).
However it goes, cool but will wait and see. Too early, trailers may be hit or miss, waiting more and more or forgetting what it is entirely because didn't leave an impression worth remembering so they have to try harder with a better title or better marketing approach (or don't and keep at the same bad marketing).
Whatever of Toys for Bob still as well.
As if the Initiative was that great either.... Perfect Dark is fine but management wise seemed hmm. So however this one goes.
@WildConcept6 Is that the one with the faces that keep screaming at us on the trailer? The horror? Also, for Toys 4 Bob, I was so gutted that they weren't given Banjo to do what they did for Crash 1-3. That'd have been special. I agree with you, more doesn't mean less when it comes to oversaturating a genre. Platformer and horror are two of my fave genres.
They should call back some people yhey let go …
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