diff --git a/static/js/index.js b/static/js/index.js
index d478925..642b837 100644
--- a/static/js/index.js
+++ b/static/js/index.js
@@ -425,6 +425,19 @@ function showApps(host) {
                 console.log('Error! Failed to retrieve box art for app ID: ' + app.id + '. Returned value was: ' + failedPromise)
                 console.log('failed host object: ');
                 console.log(host.toString());
+
+                if ($('#game-' + app.id).length === 0) {
+                    // double clicking the button will cause multiple box arts to appear.
+                    // to mitigate this we ensure we don't add a duplicate.
+                    // This isn't perfect: there's lots of RTTs before the logic prevents anything
+                    $("#game-grid").append($("<div>", {html:$("<img \>", {src: "static/res/no_app_image.png", id: 'game-'+app.id, name: app.title }), class: 'box-art mdl-cell mdl-cell--3-col'}).append($("<span>", {html: app.title, class:"game-title"})));
+                    $('#game-'+app.id).on('click', function () {
+                        startGame(host, app.id);
+                    });
+
+                    // apply CSS stylization to indicate whether the app is active
+                    stylizeBoxArt(host, app.id);
+                }
             });
         });
     }, function (failedAppList) {
diff --git a/static/js/utils.js b/static/js/utils.js
index 1fa07fa..f5c9f9d 100644
--- a/static/js/utils.js
+++ b/static/js/utils.js
@@ -338,7 +338,14 @@ NvHTTP.prototype = {
 
         // TODO: unfortunately we do N lookups from storage cache, each of them filling up the memory cache.
         // once the first round of calls are all made, each subsequent request hits this and returns from memory cache
-        if (this._memCachedBoxArtArray[appId] !== undefined) {
+        if (this._memCachedBoxArtArray[appId] === null) {
+            // This means a previous box art request failed, don't try again
+            return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
+                console.log('returning cached box art failure result');
+                reject(null);
+                return;
+            }.bind(this));
+        } else if (this._memCachedBoxArtArray[appId] !== undefined) {
             return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
                 console.log('returning memory cached box art');
                 resolve(this._memCachedBoxArtArray[appId]);
@@ -392,9 +399,13 @@ NvHTTP.prototype = {
                         console.log('returning streamed box art');
                         resolve(streamedBoxArt);
                         return;
+                    }.bind(this), function(error) {
+                        // Cache the failure but not persistently
+                        this._memCachedBoxArtArray[appId] = null;
+                        console.log('box art request failed');
+                        reject(error);
+                        return;
                     }.bind(this));
-
-
                 }.bind(this));
             }.bind(this));
 
diff --git a/static/res/no_app_image.png b/static/res/no_app_image.png
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..4cbad3e
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