July '11 News Roundup

It’s been all hands on deck at Rare this month, as we continue to race towards the release of Kinect Sports: Season Two.

Despite this, we still found time to seek out our favourite office vistas, and uncover some boxart gems from the Far East. We also served up a double helping of Mini-Scribes for your delectation (you lucky things).

Beyond the gates of Rare HQ, football pundit Mark Lawrenson got his game on with Kinect Sports while 'keepy uppy' champ Dan Magness put his shoulders to good use by setting a new world record.

With Gamescom and PAX just around the corner, there should be a deluge of Season Two coverage in the coming weeks.

Blog Posts
• Windows on the World – taking five to do a bit of window-gazing
• Mini-Scribes: July 22, 2011 – we rummage through our inbox for your letters
• Top 5 Japanese Rare Boxart Variants – cool stuff the West never got to see
• June Twitbook Jubilation – highlights from our social media grab bag
• Mini-Scribes: July 1, 2011 – letters, letters, letters, we love them

The World Wide Web
• [YouTube] Kinect Sports world record attempt and Mark Lawrenson
• [Eurogamer] A Rare view of the future of Kinect
• [GameSpot] Kinect Sports 2 'pushing speech a hell of a lot'
• [Kinectaku] First Impressions: Kinect Sports: Season Two
• [CVG] Kinect: A look at the next 12 months of games