Hot on the heels of the Xbox 360 Spring Dashboard Update leaking from GameSpot, they posted and removed images of an Xbox 360 controller with a full qwerty keyboard placed between the handles.

This is no doubt coming in anticipation of Live Messenger support, but it may also encourage development of my social elements in games, like MMOs.

UPDATE! The keyboard is now official. It will be bundled with its own headset since it will plug in the headset jack, and the keys will be backlit. No word of price or release date, though its expected in the summer.

This is the first in a two part episode. Originally this was supposed to be one episode but it was just too amibtious to cram it all into one. The second half is forthcoming.

Show Notes after the jump
For Part Two of this feature, go here.
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David Goyer, most recently known for his work writing Batman Begins, is going to be putting his pen to work on a movie called “Super Max.” This seems to be a name of a supervillain jail, but the movie is focusing on one specific prisoner – a fella named Oliver Queen. (You may know him better as the Green Arrow.) The premise sounds awesome, but don’t take my word for it. Here’s Goyer’s description:

He’s Green Arrow for the first 10 minutes of the movie, and then he’s arrested and his secret identity is revealed … They shave his goatee and they take his costume and send him to prison for life, and he has to escape. It’s like ‘Alcatraz,’ and he has to team up with, in some cases, some of the very same villains he is responsible for incarcerating in order to get out and clear his name. Of course, tons of people try to kill him while he’s in there. We’ve populated the prison with all sorts of B and C villains from the DC Universe. For the fans, there will be all sorts of characters the hardcore comic book junkies will know, but they’re all going to be there under their human names and no one is wearing a costume, but there will be a lot of characters with powers and things like that.

Sounds like a fantastic premise for a movie, an excellent use of the DC Universe, and an interesting application of the character. Can’t you just imagine Ollie use a sharpened plastic fork and elastic from his underwear to impale a man 2,000 yards away?