Xbox One will get more social features and more options for watching TV and playing media content

Microsoft continues its frantic pace of updates for Xbox One, which in the coming months will continue to multiply the possibilities of the console in several sections. The 2014 edition of the Gamescom video game fair has just started, and Larry Hryb, aka Major Nelson, has taken the opportunity to announce many of them, which bring with them new social functions and more ways to watch TV and play content.

The list of novelties is extensive and includes much requested things such as a new video player or the already announced digital tuner for Europe.All of them will be arriving in different updates over the next few months, although some will already be able to be enjoyed this August by members of the test program. After the jump you have the complete list.

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• New friends section with new activity feed and more incentives to compete for achievements."
• The new Snap Center that allows you to better organize and access apps that are snapped to the sides.
• New messaging application capable of displaying entire conversations accessible without exiting games.
• New multimedia player that will allow you to play files from USB or from other devices using the DLNA protocol. The player will include support for multiple formats, including the desired mkv.
• Support for digital TV tuner recently announced.
• Possibility to send the television signal to smartphones and tablets thanks to SmartGlass applications.
• Option to have Xbox One boot in TV mode.
• New mini guide, complementary to OneGuide, which is displayed at the bottom of the screen without interrupting what we are watching.

Along with all these new features Microsoft continues to work to expand Xbox to new markets In the list of countries where the Xbox will go on sale console as of September there are Argentina, Chile or Colombia, along with more European markets and other fundamental ones such as Japan.

Via | Major Nelson