Leisure

With over 100 blades, a distinctly Japanese style and hordes of enemies, this preview for Vanilla Ware’s Muramasa gives Wii owners plenty of reason to be excited; it comes out 7/28.

Available for preorder, this Star Wars Chess Set features 32 shiny silver and gold pewter renditions of Han, R2-D2, Darth; the board features a glass top etched with the Death Star.

With a gun-toting robo-lizard, a Mad Max-style car chase and hammy acting, The Diamonds of Metro Valley is so bad we have to watch it; the film will be completed in a few months.

We’ve seen Baconnaise, bacon t-shirts and a bacon lance of death, so why not bacon-flavored vodka? Bakon is made from Idaho potatoes and infused with the taste of peppered bacon.

Although Blackbird is best known for their small carbon fiber guitars, the Super OM is their first full-sized acoustic; a pickup with volume and tone control is available for an extra $140.

With a looping spaghetti Western music track, we half expect Clint Eastwood to make an appearance in Bang! Heroes; it’s a well-designed steampunk meets Wild West platform shooter.

Rob Zombie continues his reboot of the Halloween franchise with H2: Halloween 2; hardcore fans of the original may blanch at this trailer, but we’ll be keeping our kitchen knives sharpened.

It’s not very long, but above is the intro cinematic from Ghostbusters; watching Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, et al. in the credits and hearing that siren sends happy chills up our spine.

Available 5/11, Hyperkin’s FC Mobile II allows you to play NES games on a portable console with a 2.5″ LCD; this new version includes two wireless controllers and a light gun.

They may be based off of CG characters, but these 1:6 Resident Evil 5 figures are uber realistic (and sexy in the case of Shiva Alomar); they’ll of course come loaded with weaponry, too.

Youth are usually deaf to anyone over 65, but Wisdom (book, site) interviews luminaries anyone would be remiss to ignore, including Nelson Mandela, Clint Eastwood, and Jane Goodall.

Space Quest, Police Quest and Leisure Suit Larry fans will love Sarient.Net: it not only hosts playable flash versions of the classic Sierra games, but makes them somewhat multiplayer.

Connect 4 isn’t exactly the first game that comes to mind when we think of high luxury, but Dunhill’s ultra-swank Score 4 elevates the childhood game to gentlemanly status.

Currently in closed beta, Allods Online is a free MMORPG whose trailer has us salivating over its flying sailing ships, cannon volleys and swashbuckling boarding parties.

Super strength and heat rays are great, but you can’t have a superhero game without Spidey-style swinging; this new trailer for Champions Online has us checking our web shooters.

Made out of vinylester resin, carbon/kevlar fabrics and fiberglass, Wave Sport’s Project 54 CX is an ultra lightweight kayak at only 20 lbs; it’s limited to 50 handcrafted pieces worldwide.

Announced Monday, Greenday’s 21st Century Breakdown Tour kicks off 7/3 in Seattle; Rolling Stone calls the album (available 5/15) their most ambitious since American Idiot.

Few things are as reviled in the workplace as meetings; Five Minutes To Kill Yourself tasks you with impaling, flambe-ing and maiming yourself so you can skip that next boring meeting.

Apparently, the 22nd century is not only free of money and war but forks and spoons; this limited edition Star Trek Titanium Spork is engraved with NCC-1701 and individually numbered.