It's been a great couple weeks finding good gaming deals over XBox Live Arcade the past month. Three out of four weeks I've taken advantage of the Gold-exclusive Deals of the Week. After getting Pinball FX on the cheap a few weeks ago, last week the Prince of Persia Epilogue DLC was 30% off, so I snagged that and will get to it hopefully before too long. This week is a super deal—all games for the Hasbro Family Game Night portal are 50% off, so I added Sorry! and Battleship for only 400 points ($5) each. The portal is free, so if you don't have it, now is a great time to get it. Scrabble for $5 is a tremendous deal; just be warned that your gamerscore potential will augment by the full 1,400 spread over the seven games, regardless of if you own them all or not. Battleship has interesting alternate modes, like "Salvo" where you get one shot per turn per ship remaining. Sorry! has "Bonus Cards", where the deck has additions like Sideswipe, where you advance to the next corner, sending all tokens in the row back to start. Funnily, I never knew until Tuesday that Sorry! was played with cards, not dice. I'd never played before and was also confusing it a bit with the similar Trouble, but since they're both just souped up Parcheesi, that's understandable.

30 Rock finally kicked off the new season last night, with a fun entry that mildly pokes fun at itself as Jack demands TGS be made more relatable to average, 'Middle' America. The solution seems to be the addition of a new cast member, and I'm really looking forward to an upcoming episode with a talent-scouting trip to Kenneth's hometown in Georgia. Perhaps the logic of NBC's Vice President of East Coast Television and Microwave Oven Programming joining Liz Lemon on a talent search for a skit show is a bit suspect, but the thought of him loose in the backwoods, scorching the earth with his disdainful mockery, has me very excited.

That's all for today. Have a great weekend, everybody!