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Usually when we finish a new digital project it goes online for all the world to see in all its glory. With one of our more recent projects however you will have to be one of the lucky people that own an Xbox 360 Kinect and Xbox Live. There is no need to worry though, we have taken the time to put together a collection of images walking you through each section of the application giving a glimpse of the magic it has to offer.

I’d like to introduce you to to the Official Kinect Sports Facebook Application.

Whether your specialty is Bowling, Table Tennis or a spot of Beach Volleyball (bikini not required) you can put your skills up against anyone and everyone with international leagues. You have the option to simply join the current weeks league or subscribe, which will automatically enter you into your selected leagues every week.

If you prefer competition on a more personal level, invite your Facebook friends to your own personal weekly league. You choose the Sport, Number of Games, League name and Start Date.

So you’ve joined a few international leagues and invited your friends to the bowling league to end all leagues you can then keep track of everyones progress in My Leagues. After joining a league you have been invited to you can also keep a track on the progress and how long you have to get your games in. Once leagues are finished they are fully archived for you to reminisce on your achievements.

If you have played Kinect Sports you will be fully aware of the hysteria generated by seeing your game highlights. If you were daring enough to upload your videos to Kinect Share you can view them all in My(your) Videos.

My Records: See how you compare against your friends, find out who’s been practicing a little too much and if it’s your thing brag to your Facebook friends about how great you are.

The secret’s finally out! Over the past year we have been working with Rare and Microsoft Games Studios (MSG) on building  Rare.co.uk and now the official Facebook application to support the Xbox Kinect launch title Kinect Sports.

The press release went out just moments ago and we couldn’t be happier with what we have all achieved working alongside everyone at Rare and MSG. Rare have done an amazing job building a fantastically enjoyable game, leaving some of us in the studio resorting to deep heat after getting a little too competitive playing Kinect Sports yesterday (UK launch day).

The Facebook application allows anyone with Kinect Sports to join international leagues to put their skills up against the rest of the world,  create and join custom leagues with friends and view their Kinect Sports videos which can be uploaded via Kinect Share.

Just our long jump skills to work on now….

Press release: http://rare.co.uk/news/introducing-kinect-sports-facebook-app

After months and months of super hard graft the Rare Ltd brand spanking new website is live. The whole team has really pulled together on this one with some serious time and dedicated hours being put in to make this happen. It’s a huge huge HUGE project for us and we are incredibly proud of the end product. Check it out.

This evening we will be watching the live stream from E3 in Los Angeles where Microsoft will be announcing the launch of the new Xbox project, ‘Natal’ ‘Kinect’ hardware. We will then be pressing the button to launch the new Rare site which will be showcasing some pretty exciting content. http://www.rare.co.uk keep hitting refresh, should be launching very soon…..

Beers, pizza and big sighs of relief all round. If you’re in Nottingham then come join the party!

So, as we initially mentioned a short while back we have been working with Rare on a very very VERY exciting project, as far as dream project’s go this is right up there (especially for the gamers in the studio). The teaser is up and there has been lot’s of hype and some very interesting theories as to what the countdown reveals. The guardian was one of many site’s to feature the teaser. Everyone will have to wait  and watch this space to see what the light is at the end of the teasing tunnel!

Check back soon to the blog to find out developments.