September '11 News Roundup

With the October release date of Kinect Sports: Season Two now firmly in our sights, September's been another frantic month of promotional events both at home and away.

With their passports having barely gathered dust since last month's globetrotting, our Kinect Sports demo team jetted off to Japan for the Tokyo Game Show, where Skiing was the primary focus and we unveiled the first screens from Season Two's new Challenge Mode. Meanwhile, our lone undercover operative/bewildered tourist found himself in the UAE hunting down Season Two snaps at Dubai's GAMES11 event.

Closer to home, we took a short drive up the road for an 'unofficial' snoop around Birmingham's GAMEfest, and unshackled the gates of Rare HQ to host a press day, giving games journalists a chance to try all six sports in Season Two and enjoy some al fresco food.

October finally sees the worldwide release of Kinect Sports: Season Two, so brace yourselves for a deluge of reviews in the coming weeks!

News
• Season Two: Tokyo Drift – Skiing dazzles with new footage and screens

Blog Posts
• Top 5 Kinect Sports YouTube Fails – press highlights from Seattle
• August Twitbook Audacity – a month of social media gubbins
• Season Two: Pressed for Success – press day photos and coverage
• Season Two GAMEfest Road Trip – unofficial photos from our unofficial visit
• Season Two Busman's Holiday – but no actual buses at GAMES11

The World Wide Web
• [Xbox] G3 Game with Fame Event Schedule
• [MCV] Six-month Kinect roadshow revealed
• [Tech Digest] Interview: Rare's Scott Henson
• [Capsule Computers] Kinect Sports 2 Impressions at TGS 2011
• [MSN] Kinect Sports: Season Two Hands-On
• [Eurogamer] Kinect Sports: Season Two – Preview
• [IGN] Kinect Sports: Season Two Pushes Motion Control Limits