Helen Chiang takes expanded role at Minecraft, Asa Bredin becoming new Mojang head

What you need to know

• Mojang Studios, the team behind the expansive Minecraft franchise, has undergone some leadership changes.
• Helen Chiang, who has headed the studio for nearly six years now, is taking on an expanded role as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Game Content and Studios.
• Chiang will still maintain oversight over Mojang Studios, but her previous position has been handed to Åsa Bredin, who has been at Mojang for several years now.

Helen Chiang has been the head of Mojang Studios for nearly six years now, and in that time has helped ship multiple Minecraft games like Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Legends, released a bevy of Minecraft updates, and expanded the world’s most popular video game to more devices and more people. Now, it seems Chiang is moving into an expanded role at Mojang Studios as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Game Content and Studios.

This is a pretty sizeable shift in the leadership of Mojang, but it should be noted that business will more-or-less continue as usual. Chiang is maintaining oversight over Mojang Studios and the ever-growing Minecraft franchise. Taking over for Chiang as studio head is Åsa Bredin, who has been with Mojang for a little over two years and has served for the last few months as head of core Minecraft. Now, Microsoft has confirmed to Windows Central that Bredin is the new studio head of Mojang in Chiang’s place.