Well it seems that the blabber mouths over at the ESRB have done it again. Continuing in a trend that must be giving Microsoft PR ulcers, they have rated three more XBLA titles. This time, all three of the titles, were already known about, but the fact that they are now rated means the titles should be released "soon"-ish. The titles are:

Fatal Fury Special

This Neo-Geo Classic Fighting game quickly became tops in many fighting genre fans lists, when it was rumored around E3 last year. The game that looked like it was going to be lost in a sea of red tape around the old 50MB limit, will be a welcome addition to almost everyone.

Tempest

Back in November, when Atari announced that it would be publishing titles for the XBLA service, they announced what the first six game would be. Tempest will be the second of these titles (behind Millipede/Centipede). As someone who has never played this game, I'll be interested to see how it is, as well as what influences it has on Jeff Minter's Space Giraffe.

Mutant Storm Empire

The winner of the longest time between being announced (we knew about this title before the 360 launched) is finally going to be available for us to play. Taking the existing formula adding scrolling levels, bosses, and online multiplayer, sure sounds like a winning idea to me.

[Thanks to everyone who sent this in, wow, I guess you guys really did want that send tips link :) ]

[UPDATE: JUDE1 pointed out, in my un-caffeinated state this morning, I missed one, thanks]

Streets of Rage 2

After the successful launch of the TMNT arcade game, their was little doubt that we'd end up seeing more and more side scrolling beat 'em ups coming to the service. Sega has heard the fans calls and will be releasing Streets of Rage 2 "soon". What makes this even more interesting is that the title has already been released on the Wii Virtual Console, in the usual unaltered manner. For those of you who own both systems, what reason (other than it's already out) would you have in getting the VC edition?