News Summary

• Microsoft is setting up a new branch of the Xbox business named XP.
• XP consists of four branches: Xbox Places, Xbox Pictures, Xbox Partnerships, Xbox Products.
• A large focus of Microsoft's newest investment will be in cross-media partnerships, looking particularly at film and TV.
• All these initiatives will no doubt require staffing, which is such to be a sore subject for any of the staff that have been impacted by wide-ranging cuts at Microsoft and Xbox over the past few years.
• There are plenty of Xbox franchises that'd make for good TV; Perfect Dark, Fable, and maybe even a Forza story in the style of Sony's peculiar Gran Turismo show would work.