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Quickflix has announced a special deal for Australian PlayStation 3 users, offering the first month of subscription for $5 rather than the usual $20. The deal is to celebrate the addition of HBO programming to the service; check out the new content on offer through the break. Game of Thrones isn’t included. Sorry.

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Bloomberg is reporting that along with the rumored Comcast and Verizon deal, Microsoft is talks to bring HBO, Crackle, Bravo, Syfy, and Lovefilm UK to Xbox Live TV. According to the site’s source, an announcement of regarding the expansion of services via Xbox Live could come next week at the earliest. Earlier this month, MS CEO Steve Ballmer said Xbox Live TV would release sometime this year. The latest dashboard update for 360 is rumored to launch on November 15.

HBO shows are to be streamed via PS3 thanks to closure on a deal between Sony and Warner.

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HBO has filed a trademark for a game based on its hit vampire series, True Blood.

According to the trademark, it’s for: amusement apparatus and games adapted for use with television receivers or with video or computer monitors, video games, computer games, game programs, video game discs, video game cartridges, video game CD-ROMs, video game cassettes, handheld video game devices, games, online games and electronic games.

No word on release or developer or any of that was included in the filing.

Another vampire game. Hmmmm.

Thanks, Superannuation.

HBO therapy drama “In Treatment” debuted Monday, and included a plot in which a sixth-grader, with divorcing parents, would rather live with his mother because his father plays Guitar Hero all the time.

Dad and his pals take over the kid’s Wii and play the game loudly into the night, disturbing his sleep.

Oliver’s mother is upset over her soon-to-be ex’s childish behavior, and the fact that he never cooks for his son, but orders out all the time.

While we’ll have to watch to get the full story, it sounds like a regular Sunday around our house if we’re being honest.

Read the rest on MTV.