Either we spoke too soon, or Microsoft's ninjas are pretty damned quick. X3F readers will recall that the USK (essentially Germany's version of the ESRB) rated Marathon: Durandal for the Xbox 360 last week. This led us to assume that our wild speculation from last November was true, and that Marathon was making its way to Xbox Live Arcade. Now, it looks like something is amiss. We checked the USK listing during our weekly Fancast recording session on Sunday, and lo and behold, the listing was gone (gasp!). No, really, check for yourself.
So, here's the question: was the USK hallucinating, or has Microsoft demanded that the USK lower the veil of secrecy on what should have been a top-secret project?
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6-18-2007 @ 5:06PM
chenry said...
I will buy Marathon if it releases. I would love to see it in HD :D
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6-18-2007 @ 5:19PM
Zac LaCombe said...
I'd be insanely pumped up if this actually was released. Amazing game by an amazing studio.
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6-18-2007 @ 5:20PM
Rob Rawlins said...
Can I make a request that we get rid of the damn 'Orange' advertisement of the summary page on these blogs, it keeps kicking me back up to the top of the page whilst I'm trying to read!
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6-18-2007 @ 5:48PM
Justin U said...
Get Firefox and Adblock.
I haven't seen an ad on X3F or Joystiq in AGES.
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6-18-2007 @ 6:28PM
Ithilis said...
I don't understand the fuss about this one. An old game by an over-rated developer.
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6-18-2007 @ 6:40PM
MDB said...
I think it's pretty obvious Microsoft asked them to keep it on the DL.
The only other plausible explanation is that they rated a game they thought was Marathon, but wasn't. I think that's much less likely.
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6-18-2007 @ 6:57PM
J8675309 said...
I would venture to guess the latter.
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6-18-2007 @ 7:05PM
MDB said...
Then you would venture to be a retard
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6-18-2007 @ 7:31PM
T Ghost said...
Talking about fancast, where's my fancast!!!! It's 7:30pm ET and no Fancast yet??? LOL
YAY for you guys reading my comment on last fancast!
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6-18-2007 @ 7:54PM
Boff said...
@3: Thankyou! Tought it was just me! That Orange ad has caused me to leave the site in frustration three times now.
Turning loop off in the Flash player didn't help either.
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6-18-2007 @ 8:30PM
ccc said...
I never played this game and somehow never heard of it back in the day. Looks cool though 4 an arcade game.
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6-19-2007 @ 4:24AM
mattclarkie said...
It is gone now, but that Orange ad, like Orange was annoying me to. I left their company but they still manage to annoy me.
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6-19-2007 @ 7:07AM
Ankalagon said...
A copy of the USK database entry can be found here
http://www.xbox-archiv.de/?p=6752
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6-19-2007 @ 11:12AM
Bitter Kevin said...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hopefully they are changing the name or keeping a secret, or something. I was psyched to play this again using a controller. Mouse & keyboard is so lame.
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7-13-2007 @ 8:33PM
Thomas Livingston said...
There has been an active Marathon community for ages and it keeps getting better. The original games are constantly updated with new enhancements and there are loads of cool major conversion scenarios.
take a look at this:
http://source.bungie.org/
http://www.pfhorums.com/
http://www.marathonrubicon.com/
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