Maria Angelidou-Smith has also led the development of Facebook’s group feature.
“She has built products used by billions of people and led product and engineering organizations through significant growth and change,” Xbox CEO Asha Sharma wrote in a statement.
According to Sharma, 300,000 people try “Minecraft” for the first time every day, and 425 million copies of the base game have been sold over the past 17 years.
Recently, for the first time in 14 years, a new dimension in the game, “Sift,” was released, alongside the premiere of the spin-off “Minecraft Dungeons II.”
