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Xbox One receives keyboard and mouse support this week and debuts with 'Fortnite' and 'Warframe'

After a first official announcement more than two years ago, Microsoft confirmed at the X018 event last Saturday that Xbox One video games will be compatible with keyboard and mouse from this week. More specifically, it will be two major PC-born hits like Fortnite and Warframe that integrate such control system on the platform as of this week but other titles, up to fifteen, will arrive in the coming months.Bomber Crew, Deep Rock Galactic, Strange Brigade, Vermintide 2, War Thunder and X-Morph Defense will integrate support for keyboard and mouse control throughout the month of November and later, on an unconfirmed date, of Morta, DayZ, Minion Master, Moonlighter, Vigor, Warface and Wargroove. It will be the developers, with full control, who will decide how to implement these controls and, in this way, Epic Games intends to separate the users who use command from those who bet on these peripherals.As they advanced in September, it was also in the XO18 event that Microsoft and Razer announced their collaboration on an "exciting project" that will be discussed further at CES 2019 next January. Everything seems to be that the company, popular for its line of peripherals in PCs and consoles, is working on keyboards and mice designed for Xbox One as announced by Microsoft itself, along with a line of keyboards that will include the characteristic Xbox button .The consoles have been linked, in their vast majority, to control pads and not to the keyboard and mouse, inherent to the experience of playing on PC. Over the years, and the advent of online gaming and competitive experiences, what should be simple to implement became a controversial topic. To this day, few recent consoles allow the official use of keyboard and mouse as a control system in their games and has been Microsoft, more linked than ever to the PC thanks to its service Play Anywhere, which has given a important step forward.


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