I thought it would be cool to alert you to all the new games that were being rated by the ESRB since we get a list every week or two. Here’s this week’s list of newly rated games:

Check publisher websites for the latest information about game release dates.				Rating(s)=EC, E, E10+, T, M, AO Platform(s)=Mac, DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, PC, Xbox 360
		Rating	Content Descriptor(s)	Platform(s)	Publisher
3 on 3 NHL Arcade
		Everyone	Comic Mischief	Xbox 360, PlayStation 3	Electronic Arts
Rating Summary: This is a hockey game in which players compete in games of 3-on-3 hockey in a mini-sized rink. Players use standard hockey game actions such as skating, shooting the puck, passing, and body checking, along with "powerup" features that include making a goalie a giant and putting banana peels on the... [more]
Alabama Smith in Escape from Pompeii
		Everyone	No Descriptors	PC	Viva Media LLC
Rating Summary: This is a seek-and-find puzzle game in which players must search for items/tools on a screen full of jumbled objects. Players use the selected items/tools to complete tasks and help to solve a mystery (e.g., using a lit torch to trigger a sprinkler system).... [more]
Beach Party Craze
		Everyone	Comic Mischief	PC	Viva Media LLC
Rating Summary: This is a strategy game in which players compete to win a job at a beach resort. Players manage various aspects of the resort, including serving drinks, renting diving gear, and stocking souvenirs. A bonus puzzle game, Fruit Lockers 2: The Enchanting Island, allows players to match t... [more]
Can You See What I See? Curfuffle’s Collectibles
		Everyone	Violent References	PC	Mumbo Jumbo
Rating Summary: Can You See What I See? Curfuffle’s Collectibles is a seek-and-find puzzle game in which players must search for specific items on a screen full of objects. Each stage/screen provides a storyline and may include various logic puzzles and matching mini-games. Storylines can include historica... [more]
Champion Dreams: First to Ride
		Everyone	Mild Language	PC	Encore Software
Dream Day Wedding Destinations
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Nintendo DS	ValuSoft Inc.
Rating Summary: This is seek-and-find puzzle game in which players search for specific items in various wedding-related locations (e.g., tuxedo rental shop, bakery, jewelry store). Players can also engage in mini-games, such as baking cakes, selecting color schemes, and collecting accessories for the bride’s dress... [more]
EQUILIBRIO
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Wii	DK-GAMES
Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players navigate a small ball through a maze while avoiding hazards. Players can collect coins throughout the maze for additional points.... [more]
Funky Python
		Everyone	Comic Mischief	PC	Viva Media LLC
Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players guide a python to gobble up three or more like-colored objects (e.g., fruit, insects, small animals) to increase the length of its tail. Players must grow the python to its full size within a time limit in order to progress. ... [more]
Gel
		Everyone	Animated Blood, Comic Mischief	Xbox 360	Gastronaut Studios LLC
Rating Summary: This is a puzzle game in which players use a small character to move colored blocks and arrange them into formations. Players can sometimes get "smushed" by thrown blocks or by "bomb blocks" that release a gel-like substance. Players can also customize their characters with a variety of zany costu... [more]
Hysteria Hospital: Emergency Ward
		Everyone	Mild Language, Comic Mischief	PC, Wii	Oxygen Games
Rating Summary: This is a strategy game in which players earn money for treating a steady stream of walk-in patients at a hospital. Treatments include brief, over-the-top animations of patients being zapped in an X-ray machine, being soaked in green fluid during skin treatment, and getting folded in half inside a... [more]
Hysteria Hospital: Emergency Ward
		Everyone	Comic Mischief	Nintendo DS	Oxygen Games
Rating Summary: This is a strategy game in which players earn money for treating a steady stream of walk-in patients at a hospital. Treatments include brief, over-the-top animations of patients being zapped in an X-ray machine, riding a mechanical cow to relieve stress, and being soaked in green fluid during skin... [more]
Kira Kira Pop Princess
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Nintendo DS	505 Games
Rating Summary: This is a rhythm-based game in which players follow the story of a young girl in her quest to be a "Dance Queen." Players can learn different types of dance moves and compete in dance mini-games, which involve tapping/sliding in-time with on-screen rhythm cues.... [more]
Lonpos
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Wii	Nintendo
Rating Summary: Lonpos is a puzzle game in which players manipulate colored pieces to fit them into a rectangular game board. Players are scored based on how fast they complete each puzzle.... [more]
My Fashion Studio Paris Collection
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Nintendo DS	Ubisoft
Rating Summary: This is a fashion simulation game in which players can create their own fashion house in the heart of Paris. Players can design and craft clothing and accessories (bags, scarves, jewelry, etc.), fashion hairstyles and makeup, and assemble entire outfits for models. ... [more]
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Wii	Square Enix, Inc
PDC World Championship Darts
		Everyone	Violent References	Nintendo DS	Oxygen Games
Rating Summary: This is a dart throwing simulation game in which players compete in tournaments against opponents from the Professional Dart Corporation (PDC). Players can determine the velocity, accuracy, and placement of their throws as they place darts on the board. When players lose in the game mode called "K... [more]
Pimp My Ride: Street Racing
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Nintendo DS	Activision-Blizzard
Rating Summary: This is a racing simulation game in which players can customize their own cars and drive them in street racing competitions. Players can earn points to unlock new tracks, as well as collect and win new vehicle customizations.... [more]
Pop Town
		Everyone	Comic Mischief	Nintendo DS	505 Games
Rating Summary: This is a rhythm-based game in which players follow the story of a young girl in her quest to become the "Dance Queen of the Night." Players can learn different types of dance moves and compete in dance mini-games, which involve tapping/sliding in-time with on-screen rhythm cues. During one scene,... [more]
Reel Fishing Angler’s Dream
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Wii	Natsume Inc.
Rating Summary: This is a fishing simulation game in which players can hook and land fish in a variety of scenic locales, including wide-open lakes and lush green forests. Players are tasked to catch a certain amount/size of fish at each stage and can advance to more challenging "boss" fish as they progress.... [more]
Stand O’ Food
		Everyone	No Descriptors	PC	Viva Media LLC
Rating Summary: This is a food service game in which players must assemble and serve sandwiches to customers in a cafeteria. Players must put together the necessary ingredients in the correct sequence and complete customer’s orders within a time limit.... [more]
Super Punch-Out!!
		Everyone	No Descriptors	Wii	Nintendo
THE GAME OF LIFE(TM) by Hasbro
		Everyone	No Descriptors	PC	RealNetworks
Rating Summary: This game is based on the classic The Game of Life board game. Players travel around a track by spinning a small numbered wheel and can "land on" various life events, including selecting a career, buying a house, getting married, and having children.... [more]
Touch Mechanic
		Everyone	Mild Language, Violent References	Nintendo DS	Aspyr Media, Inc.
Rating Summary: This is a simulation game in which players assume the role of an aspiring young mechanic who performs repairs and upgrades on cars. Players can perform various repair jobs (e.g., installing screws, changing wheels, welding and sawing) and follow a storyline concerning the mechanic’s triumphs and f... [more]
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s Stardust Accelerator: World Championship 2009
		Everyone	Mild Fantasy Violence	Nintendo DS	Konami Digital Entertainment
Rating Summary: This is a fantasy card game, based on the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game, in which players engage in turn-based duels on a grid-like surface. Players take turns selecting cards that represent creatures with special attacks (e.g., magic, shock waves, sword hits, fire and lightning). A brief anim... [more]
Zoda’s Revenge: StarTropics II
		Everyone	Mild Cartoon Violence	Wii	Nintendo
Rating Summary: Zoda’s Revenge: Startropics II is an adventure game in which players traverse a variety of locales (e.g., Caveman Era, Ancient Egypt, the Wild West) to solve puzzles, avoid obstacles, and travel through time. The game – depicted in 8-bit graphics – requires players to battle various owls, b... [more]
Buzz!(TM) Jr. Jungle Party
		Everyone 10+	Comic Mischief, Crude Humor	PlayStation 3	Sony Computer Entertainment America
Rating Summary: This is a multiplayer party game in which players compete to earn the most points in a collection of whimsical mini-games. Mini-games include playing baseball with elephants, card games, knocking down a totem pole, and playing hot potato with a cartoon bomb – a comical blackening of the monkey occ... [more]
Free Realms
		Everyone 10+	Fantasy Violence, Crude Humor	PC	Sony Online Entertainment
Rating Summary: This is fantasy role-playing game (RPG) in which players can select and customize characters that participate in missions and mini-games in an online environment. While most environments contain puzzle-related challenges or the opportunity for social interaction, players can also engage in combat ... [more]
LEGO Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures
		Everyone 10+	Cartoon Violence	MAC	FERAL ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED
No Gravity - The Plague Of Mind
		Everyone 10+	Fantasy Violence	PSP	ANOZOR S.A.R.L.
Rating Summary: This is a 3D space shooter in which players assume the role of a pilot who investigates the cause of a mysterious plague that originates from space. Players engage in mission-based objectives that include clearing mines and asteroids, defeating enemy ships, and escorting friendly ships. Spacecraft... [more]
Secret of Mana
		Everyone 10+	Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes	Wii	Square Enix, Inc
Rating Summary: Secret of Mana is a 2D adventure role-playing game (RPG) in which players control a group of fighters as they explore a whimsical landscape and fight monsters, animals and otherworldly creatures. Characters use swords, spears and a variety of special attacks against enemies who disappear in... [more]
SONIC(TM) and the Black Knight
		Everyone 10+	Fantasy Violence	Wii	SEGA
Rating Summary: This is an action adventure game in which players assume the role of Sonic the Hedgehog who is summoned to help save King Arthur’s Camelot. Players navigate through the kingdom by running and jumping around obstacles and collecting items such as gold rings. Sonic can slash at several phantom-like ... [more]
The Destiny of Zorro
		Everyone 10+	Mild Violence	Wii	505 Games
Rating Summary: This is an action adventure game in which players assume the role of the legendary Zorro who battles against evil landowners to free peasants from oppression. Players roam through haciendas and towns, engaging in sword combat against various henchmen, landlords, and a humanoid minotaur boss... [more]
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
		Everyone 10+	Fantasy Violence, Language	Nintendo DS	Activision-Blizzard
Rating Summary: This is an action adventure game based on characters and events of the movie X-men Origins: Wolverine. Players control a clawed mutant character as he fights enemies, explores platform environments, and completes various missions along the way. The central character engages in frequent hand... [more]
CSI: NY: The Game
		Teen	Mild Language, Violence, Blood, Drug Reference, Sexual Themes	PC	Ubisoft
Rating Summary: This is a "point-and-click" adventure game based on the CSI: NY TV show. Players solve four murder cases by visiting crime scenes and other locations, collecting evidence, processing the evidence at the crime lab, and interrogating suspects. Victims’ deaths are depicted and examined in deta... [more]
Gran Turismo TV - Top Gear S6EP11
		Teen	Mild Suggestive Themes	PlayStation 3	Sony Computer Entertainment America
Rating Summary: This is a racing simulation game in which players select and drive a collection of real world cars against other racers on a variety of tracks. A feature called GT-TV enables players to view episodes of the BBC television series Top Gear. In this episode, the host engages in banter with a g... [more]
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Hammers of Fate
		Teen	Suggestive Themes, Mild Language, Blood and Gore, Alcohol Reference, Fantasy Violence	PC	Encore Software
Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East
		Teen	Suggestive Themes, Mild Language, Blood, Fantasy Violence	PC	Encore Software
Ready 2 Rumble Revolution
		Teen	Cartoon Violence, Tobacco Reference, Mild Suggestive Themes	Wii	Atari
Rating Summary: This is an arcade-style fighting game in which players compete in boxing matches against a cast of colorful, fictitious characters. Players can employ a variety of standard boxing moves (jabs, hooks, uppercuts, blocking) as well as some not-so-standard moves, including special attacks that can sen... [more]
The King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match
		Teen	Suggestive Themes, Violence	Xbox 360	SNK Corporation of America
Rating Summary: The King of Fighters ’98 Ultimate Match is a 2D arcade-style fighting game in which players compete in one-on-one combat with a large international cast of selectable characters. Players engage in hand-to-hand battles by mostly kicking, punching, and blocking their way to victory until the ... [more]
The Sims 3
		Teen	Violence, Crude Humor, Sexual Themes	PC	Electronic Arts
Rating Summary: This is a life simulation game in which players can customize and control avatars (Sims) through several stages of life and its daily activities. Players are free to pursue a variety of goals as they observe and attempt to influence and nurture families of Sims. These avatars often interact social... [more]
CSI: 3 Dimensions of Murder
		Mature	Violence, Blood and Gore, Use of Tobacco, Language, Sexual Themes	PC	Encore Software
Ninja Blade
		Mature	Violence, Blood	Xbox 360	Microsoft
Rating Summary: This is an action adventure game in which players control a ninja soldier who attempts to stop the spread of a contagious parasite that has infected modern day Tokyo. Players use swords, "shuriken," and magical ninja abilities to fight infected and mutated humans that have unleashed a wave of dest... [more]
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
		Mature	Violence, Blood and Gore	PC	THQ Inc
Rating Summary: This is a real time strategy game (RTS) in which players control an elite strike force that battles humans, aliens, and robots in different interplanetary campaigns. Battles are viewed from an overhead perspective as soldiers use weapons (machine guns, explosives, flamethrowers, etc.) and employ h... [more]