Awesome Leisure

Daredevil Yves “Jetman” Rossy recently completed his latest flight, this time buzzing by the incredibly majestic sights of Mount Fuji in Japan. We still can’t imagine how loud it must be to have four jets strapped to your body like that.

The latest trailer for the new Robocop flick gives us hope that the reboot could actually be good. If nothing else, it’s got Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, and a ton of cool VFX. Bonus points: It’s NOT in 3D.

Support charity and pay what you want for Steam keys of some of Warner Brothers’ Windows games: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fear 2 & 3 and LotR: War in the North. Beat the average to get Scribblenauts Unlimited and Arkham City.

Vasiliy Patrakov takes us on a breakneck run across rooftops, up trees, down alleyways, over fences, and through the streets of Russia’s capital city – capturing the whole thing with a POV camera, so we can play along, Mirror’s Edge style.

A suburban teen gets involved in a street gang, and ends up in a maximum security prison with the most hardened of criminals. Based on a true story. Stars James Woods, Mary-Louise Parker, Ving Rhames, and newcomer Spencer Lofranco.

The latest trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is very exciting, but it’s also particularly ominous. When two wizened and bearded dudes tell you you’re in grave danger, you’re in grave danger.

Armorer Tony Swatton continues to build out his arsenal of melee weaponry with Thor’s mighty Mjölnir. Swatton built this impressive hammer with a hollow chromoly steel head so he could actually lift it, though it still weighs about 20 lbs.

This new trailer for Capybara Games’ 2D action game and Denver The Last Dinosaur homage Super Time Force outlines the basics of its gameplay, including its strictly bananas weapons and single player co-op by way of time travel.

The humorous trailer for astronaut Chris Hadfield’s non-fiction book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth. In the book, Hadfield talks about his experiences as an astronaut and the lessons he learned from them.

Turn any HDTV into a big screen home arcade. This complete system comes with 250 classic arcade games, arcade quality joysticks, buttons, and trackball. Has wheels for easy movement and can also control Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U.

Asthree Works turns the table on a popular sci-fi trope. Play as a plant-like alien captured by a secret government organization. Use your powers to sneak and defeat the humans in this stealth platformer for Windows, OS X and Linux.

(NSFW: Language, Gore, Offensive humor) Ubisoft has delayed the release of South Park: The Stick of Truth to 2014. For now we’ll have to make do with this gameplay footage. It is just as brilliantly wrong as you’d expect.

A single malt made near the sea on the Isle of Skye. Has a smooth, but complex aroma with just the right balance of sweet and smoky, made by blending casks from different ages. Warms the mouth with honey notes and a hint of peat.

An intriguing first person sci-fi noir puzzle game, Reset lets you play a self-aware robot (or at least someone stuck inside the thing). You’ll be able to go back in time to help yourself complete puzzles and overcome obstacles.

An intriguing thriller about a man (played by District 9 and Elysium’s Sharlto Copley) who wakes up in a mass grave with no recollection of who he is and how he got there. He soon meets a group of people in the same predicament.

(Gore) Beyond Outrage is a Japanese action film about two yakuza clans taking their power struggle to a national scale. Starring, written by and directed by the legendary Japanese entertainer Takeshi “Beat” Kitano.

Remember the movie The Absent Minded Professor? Nope, didn’t think so. Well, there’s a storyline in the film where a magical substance called Flubber makes shoes take flight. The shoes in this video are like that – only cooler.

For the 25th anniversary of his legendary comic book series, Neil Gaiman worked with artist J.H. Williams III to make Sandman: Overture, a 6-issue miniseries that reveals the events before the main storyline. More here.

The sequel to the critically-acclaimed adventure game spinoff of The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead: Season 2 starts off a few months after the first game. Play as young Clementine, left to fend for herself in the zombie apocalypse.

When we’re not stepping on them, we’re building cool stuff with them – and now we’re going to be watching LEGO assemble on the big screen in early 2014. From the funny guys behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and 21 Jump Street.

The new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street lays out the life story of stock swindler Jordan Belfort. We’re not sure if it would be appropriate or ironic if Leo won his first Oscar with a comedy flick.

Pay what you want for Full Moon, the third EP from Mansions on the Moon. If you like Phoenix, Cut Copy, Mike Snow and other 80s-infused indie pop, you’ll fall for the Los Angeles-based band’s chill and laidback sound.

In this upcoming HBO drama, two detectives try to find a serial killer who’s been terrorizing Louisiana for 17 years. But it seems like one of them has a dark side of his own. The song is Young Men Dead by The Black Angels.