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Microsoft To Make @xbox.com the Default Email for Its Gaming Staff

The change signals a push to unify the Xbox brand under the 'We are Xbox' strategy.

Overview

  • Xbox leadership, in a Wednesday memo reported by The Verge, said the default email for gaming employees will change to @xbox.com next month with an option to opt out.
  • Mojang staff will receive @mojang.com addresses, and everyone keeps their @microsoft.com alias so existing contacts still work.
  • Microsoft frames the move as a way to strengthen how the Xbox group presents itself inside the company and to outside partners.
  • Activision and Bethesda will keep using their own domains, which preserves studio identities while central teams shift to Xbox-branded emails.
  • This is the first organization-wide push for Xbox emails after years of by-request aliases, following last week’s memo that retired the Microsoft Gaming name and reset priorities around players, hardware, content, experience, and services.