A judge in New York has been accused of playing solitaire during a trial. As the article notes, in February New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg fired a city employee for playing solitaire during work hours. Doing it during a trial is just a teensy bit worse.

• The Oblivion patch has fixed some issues while apparently causing new ones.
• Best Buy is taking pre-orders for Wii games, despite none of them having solid dates.
• James Cameron's big upcoming movie and game project may not be Battle Angel, but Avatar.
• Take Two filings show 3D Realms will get a $500,000 bonus if Duke Nukem Forever is completed by the end of 2006. Good luck with that one, fellas!
• Nintendo is planning a follow-up to the Brain Age series called Common Sense Training For Adults. Sounds like a lost cause.
• THQ is bringing Tetris to the 360, because it's such a damned hard game to find.
• New scans of Super Paper Mario, Mario Hoops, Starfox Command, and more. Slippy has a girlfriend? Is that Kasumi in Super Swing Golf Pangya? People still care about Tamagotchi?
• Student websites go down because someone took out the Xbox.