Xbox Annoucement 1: New Dashbord, Avatars, Netflix

 UPDATE: We just found out that the Netflix-sharing feature will only be available to those with an Xbox Live Gold account and a premium account with Netflix. Not exactly free, but still, it’s pretty cool. -Ed.

 

Ah, your Xbox dashboard.

Safe. Familiar. Clunky.

This fall, get ready for everything to change. John Shappert, chief of Xbox Live, annoucmed that the Xbox would be “reinvented through software.”

Meaning a huge update. Gone are blades. Gone are gamerpics. Say hello to a rotating carousel of “channels.”

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