{"id":95359,"date":"2016-06-15T17:28:47","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=95359"},"modified":"2016-06-15T17:32:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T15:32:04","slug":"you-can-soon-play-xbox-one-games-with-a-mouse-and-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/95359-you-can-soon-play-xbox-one-games-with-a-mouse-and-keyboard","title":{"rendered":"You can soon play Xbox One games with a mouse and keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Microsoft, Phil Spencer has confirmed that Xbox One gamers will soon be able to play on the console with a mouse and keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/phil-spencer-interview-e3-2016\" target=\"_blank\">PCGamesN<\/a><\/strong>, Spencer noted that keyboard and moude support was coming soon and that it would open up new opportunities for developers:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep talking about it in the press and my platform team keeps shaking their head, because they\u2026 Truthfully in our dev kit modes now keyboard works, mouse support is a little bit further away. I say it because I know it\u2019s not years away, it\u2019s more like months away, but we don\u2019t have an exact date yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we enable PC and mouse on console it\u2019ll be interesting to see how many of those creators think about running their PC and mouse-only game on console, and then this idea of Play Anywhere might get even more interesting for those guys.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This follows a big push by Microsoft to combine\u00a0the Windows and Xbox ecosystems at this year&#8217;s E3.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out our full coverage of Microsoft&#8217;s E3 2016 conference <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcgamesn.com\/phil-spencer-interview-e3-2016\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Massively powerful all-in-one gaming PC includes 10-core processor and GeForce GTX 1080\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/93857-massively-powerful-all-in-one-gaming-pc-includes-10-core-processor-and-geforce-gtx-1080.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Massively powerful all-in-one gaming PC includes 10-core processor and GeForce GTX 1080<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to How gaming rules the biggest company in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/95215-how-gaming-rules-the-biggest-company-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">How gaming rules the biggest company in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/94989-the-biggest-movie-releases-in-south-africa-this-week-3.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">The biggest movie releases in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Head of Microsoft, Phil Spencer has confirmed that Xbox One gamers will soon be able to play on the console with a mouse and keyboard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":86868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8585,4],"tags":[31,18459,9179,91,11438,5145,2097,243,10065,19519],"class_list":["post-95359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-e3-2016","tag-keyboard","tag-microsoft","tag-mouse","tag-peripherals","tag-phil-spencer","tag-xbox-2","tag-xbox-one","tag-xbox-one-e3-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}