That Wii price drop rumor is back again. For the past few months, we’ve been constantly hearing murmurs that Nintendo is going to drop the price of the Wii in May 2011. Now retailers have been backing up that assertion by claiming that Nintendo will be announcing an official $149.99 Wii price drop in the next few weeks. Not only that, but there’s some interesting news in the world of Nintendo Wii games as well.

Kotaku was the first to bring up this new insight, courtesy of its unnamed retail sources…

Best Buy has a relatively decent number of advertised sales this week. Between Best Buy and other retailers such as Kmart and Toys R Us, there should be something that catches your eye.

Nintendo has just confirmed the rumor that the black Wii will be heading to North American stores. Starting May 9, 2010, all retailers that normally carry Wiis will have both black and white Wiis available. Not only that, but the $199.99 black Wii bundle will include Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, a black remote, a black nunchuk, a black MotionPlus peripheral and, of course, a black Wii.

The best thing about this deal is that no new Wii owner will be left behind.

Tampa Bay Online reports that Polk County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 30-year-old Michael Ray Ekes, suspect in the theft of an SUV, at his home while he was playing Grand Theft Auto III. Sigh.

Ekes now faces a laundry list of charges including burglary of a conveyance, possession of methamphetamine and, of course, grand theft auto. A Dodge Durango that had been reported stolen from a Polk County Walmart’s parking lot was in Ekes’ front driveway. The steering column was broken and the ignition switch was missing. Inside the vehicle police found a ski mask, pliers and screwdrivers. We are dealing with a criminal mastermind here, folks. Tampa Bay Online quotes Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd on the arrest and he makes to sure bash video games in the process:“Crime is not a game,” Sheriff Grady Judd said. “Real-life crime has real-life consequences – and I hope he goes to prison for a good long while, where they don’t have ‘Grand Theft Auto’ video games.”

The Black Friday fun at Sam’s Club includes deals on all of the Big Three consoles.

A sports-filled bundle comes with the Nintendo Wii Console, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Play, Winter Sports 2, World Championship Athletics, two Wii Motion Plus accessories, two WiiMote controllers and two Nunchuk controllers for $349.00.

There’s also a…

The punishments for the undercover officers caught Wii Bowling during a March 6, 2009, drug raid have been handed down. And they’re not so punishing.

The Lakeland Ledger reports that 11 members of the multiagency task force were found at fault.

Undercover detectives received a letter of retraining and are required to undergo two hours of retraining. The sergeants who supervised and didn’t stop detectives from virtual bowling got a letter of guidance and must undergo four hours of retraining.

Video games are often berated for the lack of educational content found in them. They’re often considered a waste of time. But, if you look closely, even games that aren’t slapped with the edutainment label or feature educational material can be teaching valuable skills to the people playing them.

Gamertell’s put together a brief list of some video games that weren’t created with the developers aiming to educate the masses, but can end up helping players build some valuable skills. With some, the educational value is pretty obvious, but with others you probably could spend hours playing without even realizing you’ve learned something from it…

The Big Bang Theory celebrates all that is geeky, a lot that is nerdy and delivers just enough underdog romance to keep even the unsuspecting viewer interested.

The series breaks down and twists the typical setup of an intellectually floundering, often overweight male paired with the seemingly out-of-reach, wise, sassy and super sexy female costar into an unsuspecting blend of science, a wide range of humor and a smattering of sweetness. It’s a formula that’s worked from the beginning of the series and has nicely improved throughout the second season.

Man, you just cannot resist the Nintendo Wii. It is almost impossible not to stop a play a few frames of Wii Sports‘ bowling, even if you’re on the job and that job is busting drug dealers. Some central Florida police officers have become the subject of nationwide ridicule after a hidden security camera caught them playing a Nintendo Wii during a drug raid.

While raiding the home of convicted Lakeland, Florida drug dealer Michael Difalco two officers found marijuana, methamphetamines and $30,000 in stolen property. Among Difalco’s possessions was a Nintendo Wii, with its best-selling pack-in game Wii Sports. It seems some officers detectives stopped to have an impromptu bowling tournament, not knowing Difalco had a camera recording everything. The search of Difalco’s property took nine hours and cost taxpayers $4,000. The cost of all the bad publicity is beyond measure.

Wii Sports Resort may at times come off like a tech demo for the new Wii MotionPlus accessory, but is there anything wrong with that? By offering nearly 1:1 motion capturing, reflecting motions in a 3D space, the Wii MotionPlus brings a level of control to your WiiMote that simply wasn’t possible before. And that brings games to your Wii that weren’t this fun before. And yet, it’s not the Wii MotionPlus that makes Wii Sports Resort so great.