I'm a giant geek and even I shudder at the idea of gaming-themed weddings. But while I question the concept, I can't deny the quality of the execution -- that's a pretty nice looking cake. There are a number of close-up photos here of all the little details, along with the bride and groom's -- ugh -- Mii figurines.

Industry and multi-console news

• The Florida Bar has recommended enhanced disbarment for Jack Thompson, meaning he would be prohibited from applying to practice law again for ten years. For his part, Thompson walked out on the hearing, saying the judge had no authority to hear the case.
• Tecmo has responded to Itagaki's departure and lawsuit, claiming the damages he seeks are the product of "distortions."
• GameTrailers has a Pop-Up Video style analysis of the Resident Evil 5 trailer, pointing out various details that may have gone by too quickly for you to notice.
• Bruce Willis is currently in negotiations to star as Kane in a Kane & Lynch movie.
• The producer of Resident Evil 5 says the game wasn't changed in response to racism claims.
• Next Generation offers suggestions on five ways to jumpstart Atari.
• EA has agreed to hold off on buying Take Two until the FTC has completed a probe.
• Design Lesson 101 looks at World in Conflict.
• EA's NBA Live 09 simulation has predicted that the Lakers will win the 2008 NBA Finals.
• Nielson has released the results of a study to find how much people use each console in different age groups.
• Rumor has it that Neversoft has been taken off the Tony Hawk series.
• Wired talks to the people at PlatinumGames about their first round of titles: Mad World, Bayonetta and Infinite Line.
• Softprint, the distributor for companies like Nintendo and Activision in New Zealand, has filed for receivership.
• Coldplay's Violet Hill is coming to Guitar Hero III as DLC.
• Call of Duty 4 has sold 10 million copies.
• This week's Zero Punctuation review is for Oblivion.
• The Onion reports on allegations of incompetence against the Liberty City police force.
• A University of Virginia graduate student is working on an atheist video game that requires you to kill historical religious figures. Be prepared to see this being referred to in news reports like it's something you can just pick up at the local Wal-Mart. And who knew there were atheists in Virginia?
• Kotaku's Leigh Alexander attempts to debunk the feminist argument against GTA4.
• Gaming Verdict has a history of Bullfrog, Peter Molyneux's old company, written by someone who was there from the early days.
• Brett Ratner's new branding company has been working on promoting Guitar Hero for a while, but apparently their marketing plan consists of just sticking a plastic guitar in everything. Previously it showed up in Mariah Carey's Touch My Body video, and now Miley Cyrus will be smashing a Guitar Hero guitar in her next music video. Both videos were directed by Ratner.
• The Sci-Fi Channel has its own gaming blog now.
• Ken and Ryu will not be appearing in the new Street Fighter movie.
• Ubisoft says Avatar's 3D visuals only work on a specific kind of TV.
• Level Up has a trailer for The Jace Hall Show, which is a five-minute webisode (I hate that word) series with Monolith founder Jason Hall talking to celebrities and developers alike about games. Apparently Laurence Fishburne is into Prince of Persia?
• Pizza Hut is running a contest to win a $10,000 Gamers Fantasy Package.
• Jalopnik has a look at what real-life cars inspired the vehicles of GTA4. There's actually a website called the Internet Games Car Database that does this for lots of different games, from pointing out that the Sentinel in GTA4 is a BMW M3 (which the Jalopnik feature overlooked), to identifying Sam & Max's police car as a 1960 DeSoto Fireflite.

PC and mobile news

New content: Call of Duty 4 map pack and 1.6 patch, Europa Universalis: Rome 1.2 patch, Iron Man 1.1 patch, Strategic Command 2: Weapons and Warfare 1.04 patch

• Yet more Diablo 3 rumors, what else is new.
• GamesRadar talks to John Carmack about Quake Live.
• The NPD PC charts for the week of May 18 - 24 see Age of Conan debuting at number one.
• The next class to see new weapons and achievements in Team Fortress 2 will be the Pyro. Valve has also confirmed that Meet the Sniper will be the next in their video series.

Nintendo news

New media: first Sonic Chronicles trailer, Mario Super Sluggers trailer

• Teachers who attend this year's Handheld Learning Conference will receive a free DS Lite and copy of Brain Training.
• Tenchu 4 is coming to the Wii.
• News of a Castlevania for the Wii may have been leaked by a comic publisher.

Sony news

• Sony has ceased production on The Getaway and Eight Days. You probably don't even remember Eight Days, but it was the game with the gas station shoot-out shown at E3 2006.
• A mystery studio with PS3 coding experience is assisting with the development of Bioshock on the PS3.
• Gamasutra has a Q&A with Ken Imaizumi and Ryan Payton on the development of MGS4.
• Insomniac is opening a new studio in North Carolina.
• GameTrailers has uploaded part four of their Metal Gear retrospective.
• MGS4 has received a perfect score from Famitsu.
• A listing in a Japanese game store finally gives some clue as to what the hell Afrika is. As many guessed, you are a photojournalist taking pictures of animals, and you can unlock real life photos and footage as you build up your "Animal Library."
• The ESRB has rated a PS3 game called The Last Guy. Feel free to make wild guesses as to what that could be.

Microsoft news

New Live Arcade titles: Roogoo, Aces of the Galaxy
New media: Infinite Undiscovery screenshots, Too Human screenshots

• NinjaBee has announced A Kingdom for Keflings for Live Arcade.
• Microsoft admits their store design isn't great. “I think a lot of that is we built Xbox Live Marketplace for a few hundred items and now we have 17,000 items. We built a small store and we filled it with lots of lots of stuff. We’re feeling some of these growing pains and [the new policy] is one of those tradeoffs we’ve had to make.”
• Amazon's deal of the day is Mass Effect for $34.99 and Gears of War for $34.99.