2013! The year we find out what the Mayans were trying to save us from. Seems like a good time to put an end to that AD business and restart the count from 1AU (After Un-pocalypse). So in January 1AU, here’s a rundown of what was circulating through Rare’s ‘channels’.
Beyond spreading the news of a Kinect Sports Gems page update and Ultimate Collection putting players through their paces at an NFL event, we shared a whole stack of pics this month, most notably in the snowy Rare HQ gallery. In fact you could follow the whole (annual) epic snow saga from the first icy morning through a near lock-in to the wintry gallery aftermath. And in the midst of all that was another office shuffle with exciting real-time before and after window shots. Yes! All the red-hot breaking news as it happened! Also cake.
There was plenty of fan activity spanning audio, video, photography, art and cosplay: a celebration of Battletoads‘ music and a YouTube medley of Rare themes, a Field Goal Contest video throwdown, an unlikely Ghoulies/Sports artistic crossover and a snapshot of one fan’s very fine Rare figure collection. And the cosplay? Sure you’re ready? Okay: a re-enactment of Banjo-Kazooie‘s game over scene and a man dressed as a GoldenEye N64 cartridge. Meanwhile Rare Gamer rolled out Top 5 lists themed around Xmas presents, exploitable features and cheat codes while TrueAchievements got cracking on those walkthroughs for Kinect Sports Gems.
Over the course of the month we also mourned THQ and HMV, offered Robin’s flumpet services, dropped some knowledge, learned some new words along with new uses of existing words, tried to subvert a Hollywood film, fought bacterial conjunctivitis and considered developing Xbox Kinetic Tennis Ice Ice Baby Superstar. We kept busy.
Now it’s back to life in the fragile future world of February 1AU, and if you want to keep tabs on how that’s working out for us, we post stuff daily on the RareLtd Twitter profile and at unpredictable intervals on Facebook as RareLtd and KinectSportsOfficial. We also do a monthly summary for THE LIKES OF YOU. Same time next month then?