Awesome Leisure

EA Sports teamed up with Google to make the Madden Giferator. The web app lets you make GIFs using animations from Madden NFL 15. Pick a team, a player and a background then add your smack talk and fire away.

Explorers Sam Cossman and George Kourounis, Geoff Mackely and Brad Ambrose headed into the belly of an active volcano on Vanuatu, getting perilously close to the molten lava, and capturing images of the fiery world around them.

An in-depth look at the new features in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s multiplayer mode. The game’s Pick 13 system promises extensive customization options for both aesthetic and tactical purposes.

The One I Love is a gentle track from Blonde Redhead’s ninth album Barragán. Check out the entire playlist to listen to a couple more tracks from the dream pop band’s latest release.

(PG-13: Language) Firewatch is a first-person mystery game. You play a lone fire lookout who sees something that makes him leave the safety of his tower. Currently in development by Campo Santo, which includes pop artist Olly Moss.

One of two unreleased tracks that leaked this week, You’ll Never See Me Again is classic Adele: tinged with melancholy, but brimming with strength. The songs were supposedly cut from her last album 21. Other one here.

Infused with insanely spicy Naga chili peppers, Instant Regret vodka seems more suited to practical jokers than to vodka connoisseurs. Watch the reactions of some brave souls who drank it here.

After the successful re-release of Baldur’s Gate, Beamdog sets its sights on another classic CRPG. Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition will include the main game, its two expansions and an optional very easy Story Mode, among other tweaks.

xkcd creator Randall Munroe ponders ridiculous hypothetical questions and answers them with scientific responses. Ever wanted to know what would happen if everyone on the planet jumped at the same time? This is the book for you.

Our latest look at Civilization: Beyond Earth is about the game’s Purity affinity. Unlike the other affinities – Harmony and Supremacy – Purity wants to keep humans as they are and looks to the past for inspiration.

Gang Beasts is a multiplayer beat ’em up for Windows and OS X. Characters have the same moves; the challenge and hilarity comes from the game’s feathery rag doll physics and the various hazardous stages. Try the alpha here.

Surfer Jamie O’Brien pulls off a daring and impressive move as he swaps surfboards mid-wave as he rides the foam in at The Wedge in Newport Beach, California. We’re assuming he eventually recovered his first board.

Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is an open world action RPG set in the LotR universe. You play an undying ranger aided by a wraith. Your enemies will remember their past encounters with you, and can also be coerced to aid you.

Cam-O-Bunk is a portable, modular and durable cot. You can adjust or assemble it without tools, thanks to its unique disc-based joints. It can be used stacked, as two single cots or as one bench. It also has a variety of accessories.

Modern style is getting even wilder with these polygonal 3D animal shot glasses. They’re made of ceramic and are offered in five different styles and two colors. Pewter provides weight so that they can stand cup side down or on their heads.

Marc Ten Bosch’s Miegakure is a puzzle exploration game. Like Fez, it lets you move between different planes. But instead of looking at two of three dimensions, Miegakure lets you traverse three of four dimensions at a time.

We’ve seen liquor-infused chocolates and marshmallows. Turns out you can also get a buzz from ice cream. BuzzBar make ice cream bars laden with whiskey, rum, cognac, Irish cream liquor or lemon vodka.

MakeLab’s skateboard design combines bamboo’s strength with the stiffness of fiberglass and carbon fiber. The result is a fun, responsive deck whose manufacture provides job training and increased employment in the Alabama black belt.

Red Bull Air Force stunt pilot Hannes Arch knows how to make an entrance, taking off for his daredevil flight through the Austrian Alps from one of its awe-inspiring highways. The flying after he gets off the ground ain’t bad either.

It’s just like every other ice cream maker on the market, except you need to kick it for 20 minutes to stir and freeze the ingredients inside. If it weren’t for the plastic bits on the end, we’d try ice cream dodgeball too.

The oil boom in Williston, ND attracted so many people that even some of those who got hired couldn’t find a place to stay. When a priest turned his church into temporary housing, tensions rose between locals and the overnighters.

Etsy seller Amber Rix makes machine-cut acrylic dice with bold camo patterns, with each die having a unique pattern. If you participate in Massdrop’s promo you can get the dice at a discount. Amber also makes metal dice.

GoPro footage captured by Christian Yellott as he winds his way through Mountain Sheep Canyon at Arizona’s Lake Powell. While he does slow down a little bit in the narrowest parts, it’s still a crazy place to take a jet ski.