It’s February 2AU – well, it was – and as always, we’ve been driving power to the Rare Twitter and Facebook feeds by running for hours in the big social media hamster wheel down in the maintenance shed. In this way we’ve been able to promote our most recent permanent and contract vacancies, point people towards new Rare staff profiles and start plugging the next wave of Kinect Sports Gems, amongst other things.
We were also happy to have other internet and community content rattling around in the wheel that we could pounce on and broadcast to a wider audience: content including Video Game Pianist Martin Leung’s fine interpretations of Banjo-Kazooie and Banjo-Tooie tunes, Conker classroom art and sculpture, NeoGAF’s wistful ruminations on Wizards & Warriors, Rare Gamer’s Top 5 Unsolved Mysteries and a whole bouquet of features that (kind of) tied in with Valentine’s Day including another Top 5, Jo Dark and a bunch of drunks. Ah, the romance.
Other subjects of our sometimes-related ramblings included cyberpigs with old Banjo NPC names, Twitter milestones, the Harlem Shake, Wreck-It Ralph, improper Texan grammar and a sideways look at the week’s equine news. Also, if you didn’t know, we totally have a pool table.
A rapid escalation of amphibian namedropping saw February dubbed the Month of Battletoads: we had 1UP (RIP) pondering the low profile of Rash & co. amongst other Missing Mascots, Arcade Sushi’s ‘Toads vs. Dragons match-up, reports of a live performance, a couple of mag scans from back in the day, and of course the whole surreal Groupon affair even as the curtain descended on February in all its wonder.
Want to keep on keeping on following us more regularly? Initiate super pursuit mode and chase down the RareLtd Twitter profile or the RareLtd/KinectSportsOfficial Facebook pages. If you don’t, we can’t be held responsible if any of this stuff comes up in a pub quiz. What? How do you know it won’t?