Well, well, well. It seems that the suits at Microsoft have been busy plugging a leak over in Germany. We reported that Marathon: Durandal had received a rating by the USK (aka Germany's ESRB) last week. Apparently, someone didn't want us to know that little tidbit of information. At least not yet.

And thus, the entry has been expunged from the USK records.

The timing of the appearance and subsequent disappearance reeks of a pre-E3 announcement cover-up. I call conspiracy!

[via xbox360fanboy]

The USK (Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle) is quickly over taking the ESRB for the best place to uncover unannounced XBLA titles.

The most recent update to the USK site shows the following for Xbox 360:

EXIT (TAITO Corperation)
06/13/07
Genre: Denkspiel/Puzzle

• Yeah, we knew about that one.

Moving on.

Super Puzzle Fighter 2 Turbo HD Remix (CEG Interactive)
06/13/07
Genre: Arcade

• We definitely knew about this one.

And finally:

Tetris Splash (Microsoft EPDC)
06/13/07
Genre: Arcade

• Didn't know about this one.

Well, to be honest, actually we did know about it. We just didn't know it would be called Tetris Splash.

Anyone mad they just bought Tetris Evolution?

[via Xbox-archiv, thanks again, Wasabi!]

(In case you are wondering about "Microsoft EPDC", it is the European Product Development Centre which is responsible for overseeing the localization of Microsoft products for European markets.)