Microsoft Readying for New Xbox With August Xbox 360 Dashboard Update

News: Microsoft hasn't yet abandoned the trusty ol' Xbox 360, not by a longshot. According to a new report from The Verge's Tom Warren, the company is allegedly prepping another dashboard update for its soon-to-be-legacy system. The laundry list of changes include major updates to the console's traditional user interface, which should bring smaller-sized Live Tiles – borrowed from Microsoft's upcoming Windows Blue update for Windows 8 – into the mix.

And in a welcome bit of relief for gamers who have had to endure Microsoft's pointless points system for Xbox purchases over the past eight years or so, the company will officially kill off Xbox Points once the new dashboard update hits consoles. While Microsoft hasn't mentioned what, exactly, will happen to any points that gamers currently have accumulated, it's likely that they'll simply convert the value of each individual "point" over to cold, hard cash, which gamers will be able to use to make transactions going forward.

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