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Subscribers to Go!View, the video on-demand service for PSP, will be treated to Barclays Premier League football this week.

Mafia dons are a funny bunch, spending their days in armchairs listening to other people's frantic begging. As jobs go, it's a bit like being Father Christmas, really, but a Father Christmas with fewer qualms about kneecapping. What mafia dons tend not to do is take orders. They don't get sent out on underwhelming missions, ducking bullets and hassling local tea boys. They have minions who do that for them.

Last night, I travelled home angry. I nicked a seat on the tube, I bullied stumblebums out of my way; I was generally a bundle of passive-aggressive geekery. Why? Not because my day had been bad or because I'd messed up in the office. It was because the Chancellor (boss) of my Convergence (guild) had kicked me out, after I'd pressed the "mistrust" button on Dreamlords' rudimentary web interface.

Rare has told Eurogamer that Viva Pinata: Pocket Paradise will bloom in Europe on 5th September.

Monster Madness: Grave Danger for PS3 will be released on 5th September.

Microsoft will soon begin offering music videos from Warner Music Group on Xbox 360.

NCsoft is set to introduce a Vitality system to Lineage II that will greatly speed up levelling.

Self-proclaimed movie-to-game specialist Brash Entertainment has snapped up the rights to TV series Prison Break.

Nintendo is living the American dream as DS and Wii dominate hardware sales throughout July, according to NPD data.

Criterion plans to release Burnout Paradise as a downloadable PSN title this autumn.

The Behemoth has announced that Castle Crashers will cost 1200 Microsoft Points (GBP 10.20 / EUR 14.40) when it goes on Xbox Live Arcade on 27th August.

EA's demo version of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 has popped up on Xbox Live as well as PlayStation Network.

Eurogamer will round off Spore Week today with a surprise live interview with executive producer Lucy Bradshaw at 5.30pm UK time (6.30pm CET / 9.30am PST).

EA has struck a deal to publish a new game by People Can Fly, the Epic-owned developer responsible for Gears of War PC and Painkiller.

If EA hasn't already shed its Evil Empire image, then the news that it's set to publish a multiformat action horror title from No More Heroes developer Grasshopper Manufacture will at least convince a few more people of its rehabilitation.

Capcom has been unable to release Bionic Commando Rearmed on Steam after all.

Nintendo has updated the PAL Wii Shop with the first episode of the Strong Bad point-and-click adventure from Telltale Games, along with Hudson Soft's My Aquarium.

Hellboy is exploring a desolate Eastern European village, in search of a witch. Smashing his way into a ruined house with his giant stone hand, he discovers a skeleton slumped in the corner. "You've seen better days," he quips. "I've seen worse" deadpans the skeleton.

Realtime Worlds has taken the first baby step towards a beta test for its cops-and-robbers MMO, All Points Bulletin, by offering you a chance to register your interest in the game.

EA has added themes and gamer pictures of voluptuous former Hollyoaks actress Gemma Atkinson to Xbox Live Marketplace.

New giants on the gaming block Activision Blizzard have confirmed that they'll be 'realigning staffing' at Vancouver-based developer Radical Entertainment.

Former Lionhead programmer Cliff "Cliffski" Harris has found out why people pirate his casual PC games, and says that talking to the scurvy dogs has stoked his creative engine.

You might recall we thought SEGA's official Olympic 'Game of the Games' wasn't up to much. Too many counter-intuitive mechanics and far too much padding. A clear opportunity remains for someone to come along and snatch the torch, then. Perhaps dtp and 49 Games will do better?

Konami claims to have "pulled out all the stops" in order to make Pro Evolution Soccer 2009 a "landmark in footballing games" as part of a raft of feature announcements today.

A new game based around Guinness World Records is coming to Wii and DS this autumn.

The idea behind Fable 2 Pub Games is a Peter Molyneux special: gamble fictional cash and one day you can merge your Pub Games drunkard profile with your Fable 2 hero profile for a wodge of extra green on the streets of Albion. Or in this case gold. Pub Games will be bundled with Fable 2 - the standard and special editions - and is also available as a pre-order incentive for people who pick the game up at specific retailers, including branches of GAME in the UK. (Update: Lionhead now says something's up with this and codes aren't being distributed after all. We'll look into it.)

Facebreaker, Monster Madness and Tiger Woods PGA Tour 09 PS3 demos head up this week's PlayStation Store update, Sony's revealed.

Parents are more worried about exposing their children to videogames than to alcohol, violence and pornography.

Sony has refused to comment on rumours that a slightly redesigned PSP is ready to be manufactured.

Those of you who have been following the Olympics have probably, er, seen more of it than any of us, since the only conversations on the subject around here have been the CG fireworks display and the little girl who didn't sing.