Microsoft getting into showbiz

Steven Spielberg, Kevin Spacey, Ridley Scott, John Goodman are all stars of projects developed by tech companies such as Netflix, Amazon and, since last week, Yahoo.

Microsoft announced that it plans to join the new tech companies trend to, not only develop products that deliver entertainment, but also create entertainment.

The company confirmed that it will release Xbox Originals, a TV original series of twelve episodes with themes ranging from documentaries to sci-fi epics. The shows will be made available only for Microsoft related-devices.

Spielberg and Scott are leading two different projects based on the highly-popular video-game ‘Halo’, a military science-fiction game, which focuses on an interstellar conflict between humans and an alliance of alien races bent on their destruction.

June will mark the start of other projects , including a sci-fi drama ‘Humans’, and "Signal To Noise," a documentary series that "will expose little-known stories of how modern technology has radically altered the way we interact with our world.’

‘Games have been part of our DNA for at least the last 15 years, and creating original TV content is a logical next step in our evolution,’ said Jordan Levin, executive vice president of Xbox Entertainment Studios.