Rumors have been flying around the net the past couple of days about the Xbox 360 receiving a new disc format. Many speculated the Xbox 360 would finally get a Blu Ray drive, but Major Nelson's posting for volunteers seems to suggest that it is some sort of system update.This would directly coincide with Digital Foundry's sources that say a new update will add 1GB of storage space to the standard Xbox 360 Dual Layered DVD, helping to alleviate a space limitation that has been plaguing developers for years now. Apparently this extra space is coming from what was originally blocked off for piracy protection. It is unclear if they eliminated that partition entirely or gave it a drastic cut, but Microsoft must know what they are doing. This move is was either prompted by a game needing that extra space or possibly to allow the aging DVD format to hang in there a little while longer since the Xbox 360 likely has a couple of years of life left in it.