Xbox Entertainment Studios was a short-lived American television and movie studio based in Santa Monica, California created internally by Microsoft Studios in 2012, in order to create "interactive television content" for Xbox Live.[1]
On July 17, 2014, Microsoft confirmed that the studio would be closing.[2] On October 29, 2014, both the vice president and the president of the company departed, and the company was officially closed.[3]
History
At time of closure, Xbox Entertainment Studios was developing their first projects: a documentary about the video game crash of 1983,[4] a science-fiction drama titled Humans and a live action television series based on the Halo franchise in collaboration with film producer Steven Spielberg.[5]