The ESRB has been a great source of information about rumoured future minis recently. It’s just rated two upcoming PSP games, both of which sound like they could possibly be minis, as well as providing helpful descriptions to further whet our appetites.

First up we have Crimson Room: Reverse, which the ESRB has rated Teen. Publishers Agetec have this down on their website for a November 5^th release on PSP and PSN at a price of $7.99, which sounds mighty like a mini to me. Crimson Room is a hugely popular Flash game created by Toshimitsu Takagi in 2004, in which the player is trapped in a room and has to find their way out using only the objects they find around them, much like an old-school point-and-click game.

Crimson Room: Reverse features multiple rooms that are exclusive to the PSP version, as well as a new ‘Reverse’ scenario where you revisit a previous room and have to escape all over again using completely different clues. This new version has been personally supervised by original creator Mr Tagaki and here’s hoping it definitely is a mini because it looks fascinating and it would be great to see some point-and-clickers as minis (Beneath a Steel Sky, please!! It’s selling like hot cakes on the iPhone!).

Secondly we have Downtown Texas Hold’em, which the ESRB has also rated Teen. Having started out as a mobile phone game from EA, which has already released two minis so far, and being due for release on both DSi and PSP, this game sounds suspiciously like it could be a mini. Information about the PSP version is scarce, but the original mobile phone app is basically a straight-up Texas Hold’em poker game, but you probably guessed that from the title anyway!