To add insult to injury, this week's relatively weak week for Xbox Live Marketplace was marred when the Xbox Live billing system went down for the better part of Thursday, taking down Xbox.com sign-in along with the ability to add points to your account. The good news is that everything is back now, so if you're inclined you can boost your account to buy any or all of these additions:
- Arcade: Hasbro Family Game Night ($10-40; details and diatribe) with Battleship, Connect 4, Scrabble and Yahtzee plus four free game room themes
- NCAA Basketball 09and NCAA Basketball 09 March Madness Edition Bracket Pack (free)
- Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1 ($10) with four maps and Nazi zombies!
- Street Fighter IV Classic Pack ($4)
- Rock Band/Rock Band 2 Get the Funk Out Pack 01 ($5.50 or $2 each) with "Pick Up the Pieces" by Average White Band, "Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex machine - Pt. 1" by James Brown and "Shining Star" by Earth, Wind & Fire and tracks ($2 each) "Last Resort" and "Lifeline" by Papa Roach, "All the Things That Go to Make Heaven and Earth" and "Use It" by The New Pornographers and "Thrash Unreal" by Against Me!
- Guitar Hero World Tour Jimi Hendrix Track Pack 02 ($5.50) with "Foxey Lady (Live from Woodstock)," "Freedom," and "Angel" and European Track Pack 04 ($5.50 or $2 each) with "What Have You Done" by Within Temptation (feat. Keith Caputo), "Hier kommt Alex" by Die Toten Hosen and "Carolina" by M-Clan
- Demos: FIFA 09 Ultimate Team and Ninja Blade
- Game Videos: Fallout 3 The Pitt, Call of Duty: World at War Map Pack 1, FIFA 09 Ultimate Team, Hasbro Family Game Night, Lost Planet 2, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Tomb Raider: Underworld and Wanted: Weapons of Fate
- Themes: EndWar ($1.88), FIFA 09 Ultimate Team ($3.13) and Wanted: Weapons of Fate ($1.88)
- Pictures: Call of Duty: World at War (free; enters you in sweepstakles), EndWar ($2), Wanted: Weapons of Fate ($0.75), South Park ($1.25 each) and See It Before It's Gone (free; enters you in sweepstakles)
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