{"id":37075,"date":"2026-03-18T03:10:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37075"},"modified":"2026-03-18T03:10:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T19:10:34","slug":"todd-howard-really-really-sorry-to-see-phil-spencer-retire-weighs-in-on-new-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=37075","title":{"rendered":"Todd Howard &quot;Really, Really Sorry&quot; To See Phil Spencer Retire, Weighs In On New CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4667440-th.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bethesda boss Todd Howard has commented on the departure of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, saying in an interview he was &#8220;really, really sorry&#8221; to see his good friend Spencer retire.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer worked at Microsoft for 38 years before he announced his retirement from the company earlier this year. He&#8217;s staying on the through the summer to help with the handover to new CEO Asha Sharma.<\/p>\n<p>According to GamesRadar, Sharma hasn&#8217;t visited Bethesda Game Studios as of yet, but Howard said &#8220;everybody has talked virtually&#8221; already. Discussing the new CEO, Howard said Sharma is &#8220;great&#8221; and that, for now, people are feeling &#8220;really optimistic&#8221; about her taking over for Spencer.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/todd-howard-really-really-sorry-to-see-phil-spencer-retire-weighs-in-on-new-ceo\/1100-6538840\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethesda boss Todd Howard has commented on the departure of Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, saying in an interview he was &#8220;really, really sorry&#8221; to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5668,11892,6327,18355,7506,18356,6328,11891,4978],"class_list":["post-37075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-ceo","tag-howard","tag-phil","tag-quotreally","tag-retire","tag-sorryquot","tag-spencer","tag-todd","tag-weighs","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}