In March, Florida cops raided a man's house and found lots of drugs, weapons, and stolen goods, the usual stuff.

During the nine hours they were gathering evidence in his home, they came across a Nintendo Wii and started playing Wii Sports Bowling. Little did they know that the house had security cameras installed (alleged drug dealer installed security cameras? No way!!) and their playing and joking were caught on tape.

"How do you explain it?" Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd commented to a TV-news outlet. "Well, you can't explain that; my deputies know that they shouldn't have been playing Wii while they were involved in that search warrant."

Um, I can explain it.

When it comes to Wii Bowling, resistance is futile. Were there 16 police officers standing around after a raid? How many do you need to gather evidence, anyway? Come on man, a big screen, a Nintendo Wii, and a bunch of people standing around after what probably was a high-stress situation for the first half hour or so. Unprofessional? Yes. Unexplainable, um, not to a gamer.

I hope they at least beat the suspect's highest scores and left all kinds of interesting player names in his game to prove it.

That would be a small amount of justice rendered.

Gamers offer leaks

French game site Objectif-Sega brought to light a document from Sega of America that the company is close to a deal to release up to seven Sonic the Hedgehog-based PlayStation 2 games on Sony's PSN online gaming portal.

Meh, I say, but it gets a bit better. The document also reveals that Sega wants to release a number of Dreamcast games on PSN and Xbox Live.

Now, that is a much bigger deal, and I waxed poetic about the Dreamcast in my last column. Since all this stuff is supposedly hush-hush, who knows if any of the titles will undergo a graphics tune-up. Would be nice, though - Shenmue or Phantasy Star Online in 1080P, anyone?

Pinch me if this happens.

Say bye to Goldeneye . . . forever

Though there was some hype surrounding the possibility last year, Nintendo and Microsoft apparently couldn't agree on revenue sharing.

"That was some time ago, my friend. Fate was against us that day. Destiny conspired to raise the hurdles even as we attempted to clear them, resulting in unpleasant groinal injury," a Rare representative wryly told a fan on its online Scribes page.

You see, Microsoft owns Rare now, while the game was released and published by Nintendo.

It's really quite comical, if not sad, that these companies couldn't get this deal done. A Wii Nunchuk to the eye of Nintendo and a pox of Red Rings to MS for being so hardheaded (for the uninformed: the Xbox 360 had severe malfunctions of its console resulting in red ring warnings).