September was another busy one for us… well, it would be, given that the launch of Kinect Sports: Season Two is mere weeks away. Mere weeks!

Not content with the looming calendar presence of the Tokyo Game Show (resulting in photo-heavy English-speaking and Japanese-speaking coverage), we went ahead with an all-day press event here at Twycross (Inside Xbox providing a Making Of video and GameSpot posting some of the Challenge Play footage provided). GAMEfest and the Eurogamer Expo also happened on home turf, along with the ongoing Your Kinect Experience, while GAMES11 and rAge kicked off overseas. The end of the month saw Season Two feature in a celebrity charity drive at the G3 Lounge, while that dapper gentleman Plan B had his own crack at the game in Ibiza.

Our N64 heritage got some attention in Nintendo Life‘s Most Memorable Nintendo 64 Games and Joystick Division‘s list of things learned from DKR, while the Rareware Archives list machine expelled coverage of the Top Rare Location Spots. Over on Facebook we singled out not one, not two, but three new Friday Sports stars. Meanwhile, in the Season Two anticipation poll on our Community page, a late surge for Tennis (22%) left it neck-and-neck with American Football (both at 22%), with Baseball (19%) and Golf (17%) close behind and Skiing and Darts sprinting to keep up (both at 10%). Should be interesting to see how those figures bear out when the game hits the shelves, and the fun and replayability factors become more influential than itchy pre-release trigger fingers (well, Kinect fingers). Thanks to all who voted – new poll up now. Mascot battle!

The bizarro Indian summer gave us plenty of scope for late September pics, both on the premises and on the way in. While the ducks gathered outside for their inevitable takeover, we sat indoors discouraging jelly-based harassment and sifting through correspondence like this, this and this.

And so September spirals into October, launch month for Kinect Sports: Season Two. Yikes. In this fancy digital age you can occupy yourselves by trying to monitor our stress levels on Twitter and Facebook (Rare and Kinect Sports varieties) as we cannon towards the big day. See you on the other side.