It's nearly time for the annual crush, when gamers frantically try to make three months' salary stretch to the year's worth of releases that publishers insist on cramming into the holiday season. You know what that means; developers are desperately pushing their games through to meet deadlines. In a few weeks time, the only way you'll see more gold is if you were ... you know, at a bank ... or something. Do banks still have gold, or was that 1835?

Anyway, Forza Motorsport 3 has, um, gone gold. And there's a demo coming!

The demo is due to hit the Xbox LIVE Marketplace on the 24th of September, and features the Camino Viejo (Spain) track. The demo will support an online leaderboard, giving you an excellent reason to become familiar with the included cars:

I'll own you in my Land Rover. Yeah!

• 2007 Porsche #80 Flying Lizard 911 GT3-RSR


• 2010 Audi R8 5.2 FSI quattro


• 2009 Ferrari California


• 2008 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X GSR


• 2009 Mini John Cooper Works

If you own more than one console, you're going to be a bit spoiled for choice of racing games, what with Supercar Challenge and heavyweight champion, Gran Turismo 5 - so it's a good thing we'll have demos for all three. Why don't they make coins with three sides?