Marvel: Ultimate Alliance DLC late to the rescue

On Tuesday, several new content updates were supposed to be available for the Xbox 360 version of Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. Foremost among these was a Heroes Pack, which would add the iconic comic-book do-gooders the Hulk (the various Hulk comic books), Hawkeye (The Avengers), and Nightcrawler and Cyclops (both from X-Men) to the game.

A Villains Pack was also planned to be available. It would add evildoers Doctor Doom (Fantastic Four), Venom (Spider-Man), and Sabretooth and Magneto (also both from X-Men) to the game. Both packs were to cost 500 Microsoft points ($6.25) separately or be sold together for 800 Microsoft points ($10).

However, the launch did not go as smoothly as planned. After reports surfaced on the official Xbox forums outlining that the updates were damaging game saves, someone claiming to be Activision producer Matthew Paul posted a message explaining that the content is still being worked on.

"I wanted you to know that we are still wrapping up QA on the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance Heroes and Villains XBL DLC so it isn't out yet as some of you might have read," said the poster. "We are working hard to finalize the packs and will let you know a new release date shortly."

[UPDATE] Today, Activision confirmed the post as coming from producer Matthew Paul. As of Thursday afternoon PDT, though, the packs were still not available on Marketplace. "The dev team and QA are working hard to finalize the packs," a rep told GameSpot.