Xbox – Separate languages for dialog and captions on Xbox 360 (Just Cause 2)

I had to take some time to look this up (and plug things into my xbox) and I learned the following:

• The Xbox 360 will accept keyboard and mouse input (I'm actually guessing on the mouse as it didn't do anything, but the 360 didn't complain).
• This input is different in nature than the controller (thus you can't use it to play Halo for example)
• You can use this to type into the Xbox Dashboard in any Text Input field.

I dug deeper into the XNA api and found the following:

• The XNA Keyboard class provides different Enum from the Xbox controller
• There is no explicit cast between the two (though a developer could write one)
• The Keyboard and Controller are polled differently (so a developer must poll it separately from the Controller)
• Because of the previous point, there is no built in way to associate a keyboard hooked into the 360 with an account without explicitly doing so (ie. the api doesn't handle this for you).

I hope this helps.

To my knowledge, Microsoft is generally very close-guarded about Xbox 360 title updates in general. More likely than not, a large percentage of them are security and stability updates. The best resource I've found thus far to keep up with major title updates is the blog of Major Nelson. He's the de facto "head Xbox spokesman" at Microsoft, and seems to generally try to comment on title updates when he is able and has useful knowledge to impart. Definitely when there is news about a title update bringing big new features, Major Nelson has been amongst the first that I've seen to announce them. Major Nelson's podcast will also sometimes feature comments on title updates.

Beyond that, often individual publishers and developers have different PR plans. If you track down individual game websites, sometimes they will comment on their own title updates and what to expect from them. Often these tend to correspond with DLC releases, and so can often additional information on title updates is sometimes buried in PR releases that are sent to news sites about a game's DLC.

I don't think anything more comprehensive exists, and I'm not sure it would be allowed to exist. Certainly few gaming systems can be as usefully informative about game updates as Valve's Steam often tries to be.