Semi-good news! According to Nov '07 Xbox magazine we most likely will be seeing more board games on XBL. In the messagge center on page 19 of the mag a response was posted to a similar question/request as we are posting about here:
"Risk, Monopoly, Clue, and Scrabble -- jusdging from reader mail and forum topics, just about everyoone wants to see these board games on XBLA(sic). It's encouraging that Infogrames recently sold the digital rights to nine board games-- all four previously mentioned, plus Game of Life, Yahtzee, Battleshp, Boggle, and Simon-- to Hasbro fro just under $20 million. A few weeks later, EA announced it had scooped up some of those same licences and had plans to make new games. Nobody's ready to announce if there are plans for Live Arcade versions of these tabletop classics, but we're guessing it'd be a winning move."
And hey it's published in a fairly high profile magazine so lets hope that could be good news for Catan expansions too (keep hope alive people)! F%#* the Robber!