Get ready to watch more video games coming to the movies and television

A microsoft video game division Xbox has announced the creation of a new department dedicated to the development of television series, adaptations to cinema, products and events based on some of its most popular franchises and intellectual properties.

The news was shared in a blog post, where the Chief Strategy Officer of XBox, Matthew Ball, revealed that this new department will simply be called XP and will aim to lead “the worlds and characters [on Xbox] to new audiences via movies, television and other linear ways of telling stories”.

XP will have as its mission to make the company “the world’s number one entertainment company” and will be led by Kayleen Walters. Before arriving in this position, Walters spent 13 years at Lucasfilm (“Star Wars”, “Indiana Jones”) and, after joining Microsoft, became the president of Mojang – the studio responsible for “Minecraft”.

Remember that Microsoft has achieved some success with the adaptations of its franchises for television and cinema, with “Fallout” and “Minecraft” to be especially successful.

Says the the Hollywood Reporter website that this new XP department will devote itself to further adaptations of franchises held by Xbox's internal studios – including “Gears of War”, “Candy Crush”, “Diablo”, “Forza” and “The Elder Scrolls”.

Xbox reveals plans for “family of devices” in the next generation

Microsoft video game division manager Asha Sharma addressed the company’s employees at a meeting last Tuesday, day 6, where she talked about the next generation of Xbox consoles – currently known as Project Helix.

It tells the Windows Central website that, at this meeting, Sharma said that the next generation of Microsoft consoles will not be made up of just one or even two devices but one “family of devices”.

Sharma did not share details about these new devices, but hinted that some of them may be portable consoles that allow users to continue to throw even away.

“ We will move to a family of devices in the next generation”He will have said Sharma. “There is not a single device that is right for everyone. We will certainly have a great console first, but we also know that many players will be on the move.”.

In addition to advancing that the next generation of Xbox will be made up of multiple devices, the CEO also confirmed that some of them may be produced in partnership with other manufacturers, similar to what happened to Asus in the launch of the Xbox Ally ROG laptop.

“There are some things in which we are the best in the world to produce and there are other things in which we will partner. We share more as our plans develop. The operating system seems to be starting to get pretty good. We are very excited about this”, said Sharma.