Ratings Watch - Feeding Frenzy 2 still on its way, Fable 2 XBLA games officially titled

Have you been thinking lately "Gee, whatever did happen to Feeding Frenzy 2? It was shown back at E3 2007. Has it gone missing like Ubisoft's War World?" Well worry no more! We have an update!

... of sorts. It's been rated by the Australian Office of Film and Literature Classification finally. Though not specifically just for the Xbox 360 - maybe they're thinking of a Budget PC release, or maybe even the PS3? Either way - unlike previous Popcap games like the first Feeding Frenzy or Heavy Weapon which were all rated by Microsoft, this has been rated by Popcap themselves. Interesting!

On another note, the USK has also updated with another interesting game title - Fable 2 Pub Games! The Fable 2 Pub Games have been announced before - as Keystone, Magic Tower, and Wizard's Tower but it was not specified if they would release each game separately or bundled as a single game. Looks like they are!

Source: USK, OFLC

Told you so #1 - Ticket To Ride on Partnernet!

On Todays 1UP Yours podcast, in their "What'cha been playing?" segment, one of this weeks guests discussed Ticket to Ride on Microsoft's Partnernet.

Partnernet is an closed online service which can only be accessed by owners of Xbox 360 Development Kits or Test Kits. On this service are most of the Xbox Live Arcade titles currently available, but allow developers to test online code (interesting note: Mr. Driller Online never showed up on there, which might explain things...) as well as allow game journalists to play the games before they are released, and receive feedback.

One of the fascinating things about it is that there are games that do pop up there which haven't been announced yet, but of course, cannot be talked about (as much as everyone wants to).

Ticket to Ride - a highly acclaimed German board game which XBLAH found on the German rating board last month, is now apparently up there, and some people on 1UP Yours got a little addicted to it on the weekend. Let's hope Microsoft announce this game soon!

Source: 1UP Yours Podcast 04/25/2008

Elements of Destruction preview at Team Xbox!

Team Xbox have added a new preview of THQ's upcoming Elements of Destruction game for the XBLA, including a new video!

In THQ’s upcoming XBLA title Elements of Destruction, you play the role of the brilliant scientist turned mad scientist, and you need to unleash fury in the form of lightning strikes, earthquakes and tornadoes. At first, there’s not much resistance to Herbert’s offensive efforts, but in time the company starts to defend itself better and try to chip away at Herbert’s critical energy supply that enables him to forge his attacks.

You can check out the entire preview and the video here.

In other EOD news, the game has been rated across the board - It's just been rated by the USK, ESRB and OFLC.

Source: Team Xbox