Plus: A list of over 100 Xbox One games getting 4K updates.

Last night's pre-Gamescom Microsoft press presentation was light on major announcements. But the event did include some details about how current Xbox One owners will be able to move their games and settings over to the new, 4K-capable Xbox One X when it launches on November 7.
The easiest way to get all your games to the new system, as outlined by Microsoft Vice President Mike Ybarra, will be to just put them on an external USB hard drive and then plug that drive into the new console. "All your games are ready to play" immediately after this external hard drive move, he said, and user-specific settings can also be copied via external hard drive in the same way.

If you don't have an external drive handy, "we're going to let you copy games and apps off your home network instead of having to manually move them or redownload them off the Internet," Ybarra said. It's unclear right now if Microsoft will mirror the PS4 Pro and allow this kind of system-to-system transfer using an Ethernet cable plugged directly into both consoles.

For those who want to see as many pixels as possible as quickly as possible when they get their Xbox One X, Ybarra says you'll be able to download 4K updates for supported games before the Xbox One X is even available, then use those updates immediately after the system transfer. Microsoft also released a list of 118 current and upcoming games that will be optimized for the Xbox One X via updates, a big increase from the few dozens announced back at E3. Check out that list below:

• A Plague Tale: Innocence
• Anthem
• ARK: Survival Evolved (Game Preview)
• Ashen
• Assassin’s Creed Origins
• Astroneer (Game Preview)
• Battlerite
• Below
• Black Desert
• Brawlout
• Chess Ultra
• Code Vein
• Conan Exiles
• Crackdown 3
• Danger Zone
• Dark and Light
• Darksiders 3
• Dead Rising 4
• Deep Rock Galactic
• Diablo 3: Reaper of Souls – Ultimate Evil Edition
• Dishonored 2
• Dishonored: Death of the Outsider
• Disneyland Adventures
• Dovetail Games Euro Fishing
• Dragon Ball Fighter Z
• Dynasty Warriors 9
• FIFA 18
• Elex
• Elite: Dangerous
• Everspace
• F1 2017
• Fable Fortune
• Fallout 4
• Farming Simulator 17
• Final Fantasy 15
• Firewatch
• For Honor
• Forza Horizon 3
• Forza Motorsport 7
• Gears of War 4
• Gravel
• Halo 5: Guardians
• Halo Wars 2
• Hand of Fate 2
• Hello Neighbor
• Hitman
• Homefront: The Revolution
• Injustice 2
• Jurassic World Evolution
• Killer Instinct
• Killing Floor 2 Tripwire Interactive
• Kingdom Come: Deliverance
• Life is Strange: Before the Storm
• Madden NFL 18
• Mafia 3
• Mantis Burn Racing
• Metal Gear Survive
• Metro: Exodus
• Middle-earth: Shadow of War
• Minecraft: Xbox One Edition
• Minion Masters
• Monster Hunter: World
• NBA 2K18
• Need for Speed Payback
• Ooblets Glumberland Yes
• Ori and the Will of the Wisp
• Outcast – Second Contact
• Outlast 2
• Paladins
• Path of Exile
• PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds
• Portal Knights
• Pro Evolution Soccer 2018
• Project Cars 2
• Quantum Break
• Raiders of the Broken Planet
• Railway Empire
• Real Farm Simulator 2017
• ReCore
• Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
• Rime
• Roblox
• Robocraft Infinity
• Rocket League
• Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure
• Sea of Thieves
• Slime Rancher
• Smite
• Sonic Forces
• Star Wars Battlefront 2
• State of Decay 2
• Steep
• Strange Brigade
• Super Lucky’s Tale
• Superhot
• Surviving Mars
• Tennis World Tour
• The Artful Escape
• The Crew 2
• The Darwin Project
• The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind
• The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Special Edition
• The Last Night
• The Long Dark
• The Surge
• The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
• Titanfall 2
• Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon Wildlands
• Tom Clancy’s The Division
• Train Sim World
• TT Isle of Man – Ride on the Edge
• Warframe
• Warhammer: End Times – Vermintide
• We Happy Few
• Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
• World of Tanks
• WRC 7 FIA World Rally Championship
• Zoo Tycoon