Whether Microsoft finds any significance in the date October 31—it's the day J Allard first got laid, y'all!—is unknown, but the Fall Dashboard update is going to be dropping first thing Tuesday. We heard from our secretaries who heard from GameFront who heard from Famitsu that the update brings the long awaited 1080p support, a Xbox Live Arcade redesign, a Marketplace work-over and 80 more bullet points in some guy's Powerpoint presentation. Read part of the the list here.

It's possible that MS wanted to push out the Fall Update actually during Fall, which despite the testicle-freezing weather we're having in the Bay Area, still goes on for the month of November. Check out all the Dashboard screens after the jump, in Japanese. Jason Chen

Japan: 'Xbox 360 System Update Herbst' am 31.10.06 [GameFront via Xboxic]

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