Microsoft will begin an open beta for the new Xbox 360 dashboard next month. In an interview with Gamasutra, Microsoft's Albert Penello outlined what users can expect from the new Xbox 360 dashboard when it enters the open beta, describing it as "probably as big, if not bigger, in terms of what [the company] did around Nxe in terms of a significant change to the Ui". "The definition of a games console is changing over time. What people expect and want is changing," Panello said. "This update gets us into a place where we can expand more rapidly without breaking the experience for people who are primarily there to play games." The new dashboard layout displays a number of channels which can be flicked through using (more)...