{"id":122989,"date":"2018-01-18T08:44:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T06:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=122989"},"modified":"2018-01-18T08:44:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T06:44:38","slug":"minecraft-manager-to-head-up-xbox-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/122989-minecraft-manager-to-head-up-xbox-games","title":{"rendered":"Minecraft manager to head up Xbox games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed Minecraft head Matt Booty as corporate VP of Microsoft Studios,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/2018\/01\/17\/microsoft-appoints-minecraft-leader-matt-booty-to-no-2-job-in-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VentureBeat<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<p>Booty\u2019s new position will see him reporting to Phil Spencer and taking over Microsoft\u2019s relationships with 343 Industries, Mojang, The Coalition, Rare, turn 10 Studios, and Global Publishing.<\/p>\n<p>He will oversee game development and publishing.<\/p>\n<p>Booty joined Microsoft studios in 2010 and worked on first-party games for the Windows Phone platform.<\/p>\n<p>He also led game development teams and publishing on Xbox Live Arcade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed Minecraft head Matt Booty as corporate VP of Microsoft Studios,\u00a0VentureBeat\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":77522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[57,25613,10099,4273,333,879,2097,11732,17462,2608,243,1933],"class_list":["post-122989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-xbox","tag-343-industries","tag-global-publishing","tag-matt-booty","tag-microsoft-studios","tag-minecraft","tag-mojang","tag-phil-spencer","tag-rare","tag-the-coalition","tag-turn-10-studios","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-live-arcade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}