Last week, rumors of a $99 4 GB Xbox 360 and Kinect bundle began circulating. However, rather than a super sweet cheap bundle, the catch was that the bundle would have a two year subscription of $15 per month, and include an Xbox Live Gold membership. Well, it turns out the rumors are true, and that two year subscription 4 GB Xbox 360 with Kinect and an Xbox Live Gold membership is a real thing that you can buy. Welcome to a world of video game consoles with mobile phone plans.

Creating your own website is hard. Just ask these clowns, who have sites with some of the most inexplicably bad and antiquated web design imaginable. I think part of the problem is that most of these sites involve a picture of a clown. That certainly doesn’t help.

We all know the Metal Gear Solid isn’t done, even though Metal Gear Solid 4 tried really, really hard to end the series (and would’ve been a satisfactory send-off at that), and Konami likes to remind us about the continuing saga from time to time. This time, though, Konami showed off the Fox Engine, which is the engine being used to develop that next MGS. Instead of simply showing off the incredible visuals of which the engine is capable, they placed said visuals next to shots from real life and challenged us to pick which was computer generated. Left column or right column?

When you think “breakfast,” you can now start thinking “Taco Bell,” as the fast food chain is trying their hand at the early morning meal everyone age fifteen t0 thirty skips in favor of sleeping an extra few minutes. Considering the usual repertoire of items on offer at Taco Bell, one wouldn’t be too surprised to find out most of their breakfast offerings are of the breakfast burrito variety. The new breakfast menu, dubbed “FirstMeal,” was introduced today at over 800 of Taco Bell’s locations across Western states.

Alright, I am perfectly willing to concede that this crow isn’t actually snowboarding. I accept that it’s much more likely that it is simply trying to eat something out of the cap it’s riding on. However, that doesn’t explain why the bird keeps taking the cap to the apex of the roof, why it seems to stop pecking once it starts moving, or how the crow seems pretty cheesed when the ride ends. The evidence is against it, but in my heart I know that this bird is kicking sweet moves on fresh powder.

It’s pretty rare when a life-affirming, heart warming story sneaks its way out of a major American retail chain. Especially GameStop. But this story from blogger and GameStop shift manager Kristen Wolfe might very well put a warm feeling in the deepest, darkest cockles of your heart. It’s about a young boy who wants to buy games with female protagonists, and a “girl color” controller. His father will hear nothing of it, threatening to “whoop” the boy if he doesn’t choose something manlier — then the young boy’s older brother steps in.

Rather than make jokes, I will let the actual news do the comedy for me: Capcom has announced a downloadable game for PC, Xbox Live Arcade and the PlayStation Network featuring the Sour Patch Kids, starring Method Man and Creed Bratton of The Office. To reiterate, this is a real game based on the Sour Patch Kids candy, being made by the same people who make Mega Man and Resident Evil, starring a pairing of Method Man and Creed Bratton from The Office. The game is called World Gone Sour.

One of the biggest realism issues video games have always faced is where, exactly, your character puts all of the items he or she has collected over the course of the adventure. Perhaps the most egregious offenders of inventory realism are RPGs and adventure games. How does Cloud carry around 99 Phoenix Downs and an arsenal of humongous swords? How do Elder Scrolls characters carry 300-plus pounds of junk on their person as they sneak around cities? DeviantART user WakaBee took these questions to heart, and whipped up a rendition of Link if all of the items he lugged around were visible. For some reason, he looks determined, rather than sweaty, sore, and collapsed on the ground under the weight of all his empty bottles.

Phoenix Wright is a weird little game franchise. You click menus and watch anime stereotypes be lawyers in such a way that makes U.S. lawyers say things like “I don’t know the Japanese legal system too well, but that’s not how court works here, and it can’t possibly work like that over there.” Regardless, it’s a fairly popular franchise, even making its way to smartphones. Now, it is making its way to live action film. This particular trailer has subtitles, so you guys can enjoy the fake, anime hair lawyering even if you don’t speak Japanese.

So, let’s say you’re the WWF. No, the other WWF; the one that deals with wildlife conservation. And let’s say that you’ve spent years preparing the expansion of wildlife habitats with the highly endangered black rhino as the flagship for the project. But how do you get more rhinos to the space you’ve prepared? The answer, apparently, is to tranquilize the beasts, blindfold them, and dangle them from a helicopter while flying them to their new homes. Any similarity to the film Operation Dumbo Drop is purely coincidental.

The result is happier, healthier rhino populations, and also some astounding, improbable imagery. Read on after the break for an incredible video of the process.