If the current listing by the USK board - that'd be Germany's counterpart for ESRB - is to anything to take from, it looks like GameLoft is moving up the pace of mobile development and seeking out bigger markets. Brain Challenge, a pretty popular game that started out on mobile platforms and eventually hit the iPod, DS, and Xbox 360 (via XBLA), has just been rated on the USK as games headed for the PSP, PS3, and Wii.

The German game rating body USK has spoken and Sega's Ghost Squad for the Nintendo Wii has been categorized as a USK 18 game because of its violent content. No comments from Sega have been reported so far.

The USK 18 rating means that Ghost Squad cannot be sold to minors, but can still be retailed in stores. A USK 18 game contains "brutal, moderately bloody violence, and they may glamorize war or violation of human rights," according to the German board.

Ghost Squad was originally a light gun arcade title which has been ported to the Nintendo Wii platform. It pits you as an elite Special Forces operative tasked with anti-terrorism missions across the world. The video game makes use of the Wiimote's similarities with the light gun to make for an almost exact arcade to console transition.

 

USK is Germany's software rating organization, much like the ESRB in the U.S. and Australia and New Zealand's OFLC. Over at the group's official online site, two retro titles have just been rated anew to be included in the Virtual Console's library of video games. The titles are Dragon Spirit and Devil Crash.

Namco's Dragon Spirit first appeared back in 1987 on Namco System 1 hardware but was later ported to other platforms. Personally, I played the NES version called Dragon Spirit: The New Legend from not so way back. The game is a vertical scroller where players control the blue dragon Amul to save the Kingdom of Mitgult's princess, Alicia.

Devil Crash, meanwhile, is more popularly known as Devil's Crush in North America. It was released back in 1990 on the TurboGrafx-16. There's nothing much to say about this game really because it's basically a pinball simulation game. Probably the game's most notable feature is its rather eerie theme with the tables oftentimes covered with demons and ghouls.

There's still no mention as to when the two titles will be available for download. And lastly, in case you really want to know, Germany's USK stands for Unterhaltungssoftware Selbstkontrolle.