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Gravity Rush: Overture

Gravity Rush: Overture

A beautiful and mostly lighthearted two-part anime featuring Gravity Rush heroines Kat and Raven. Overture takes place between Gravity Rush and its upcoming sequel. If you’re not familiar with the series, all you need to know is that Kat and Raven can manipulate gravity.

The Stories Behind Alicia Keys’ Hits

The Stories Behind Alicia Keys’ Hits

Singer and songwriter Alicia Keys spoke with NPR Music about how she got into music, her songwriting process and more. Keys reveals that she’s still not sure how she comes up with her songs, and that it wasn’t easy for her to collaborate at first.

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Insane R/C Jumbo Jet

Insane R/C Jumbo Jet

This massive remote-controlled aircraft based on the Airbus A-320 jumbo jet was built by Airstage.de. The airplane-shaped dirigible has a 15.7 foot wingspan, but weighs less than a pound. It might officially be an airplane, but it’s still incredible.

Football: Wisconsin Style

Football: Wisconsin Style

With bowl season in full swing and the NFL regular season coming to an end, our friends from Rides & Drives take us on the ultimate football weekend. Join them as they show us how to tailgate Wisconsin-style.

No Surprises: Jazz Cover

No Surprises: Jazz Cover

No Surprises is one of the most oft-covered Radiohead tracks of all time, but we’re rather taken with Postmodern Jukebox’s ’30s-style jazz arrangement, with Chloe Feoranzo’s warm and smooth vocals standing in for Thom Yorke’s.

Air Hockey Robot Evo

Air Hockey Robot Evo

Engineers Jose Julio and Juan Pedro Calderon Negueroles show off their open source robot kit and companion Android app which uses the phone’s camera to detect the trajectory of the puck and move the robot’s arm quick enough to give most human players a run for their money.

Extreme Sandbox

Extreme Sandbox

Forget simulators. Located in Pottsboro, TX and Hastings, MN, Extreme Sandbox will teach you how to operate heavy equipment – a bulldozer, a wheel loader, an excavator, or a fire truck – and have fun with them through various challenges.

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Attack on Titan: Season 2 (Trailer)

Attack on Titan: Season 2 (Trailer)

Attack on Titan‘s anime adaptation is criminally behind the manga, but for many of us it doesn’t really matter. Check out the new villains and foes that enter the scene in the continuation of Hajime Isayama’s brutal action fantasy story. Drops 4/2017 on Funimation. Mirror here.

Rick and Morty Season 3 Sneak Peek

Rick and Morty Season 3 Sneak Peek

(PG-13: Language) Morty’s crush comes up with a profound definition for love, one of the intro clips appears to be resolved and both Morty and Rick are sick of Rick’s crap in this livestreamed storyboard from Rick and Morty’s third season.

LEGO Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Concept

LEGO Jeep Wrangler Rubicon Concept

LEGO Ideas member Chiho Kim’s proposal for a kit based on the iconic off-roader. The model even comes with a net to secure things at the back as well as emergency cones. Chiho has since updated the model with larger tires, a light bar, fog lamps and a winch.

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic

RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic

Developer Chris Sawyer takes his classic theme park simulators to mobile devices. RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic combines the best of the original RollerCoaster Tycoon and RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 in one game. Available for iOS and Android.

The Louis CK App

The Louis CK App
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Comedian Louis C.K. has released a one-stop mobile shop for all his major stand-up comedy specials as well as his web series Horace and Pete. If you’ve already purchased some of his work, just enter your email address and you’re good to go. Available for iOS and Android.

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Run the Jewels 3

Run the Jewels 3

“The jewels come quick, all gold and bricked. Click, click, boxer cutter spit.” Killer Mike and El-P’s Holiday gift is their highly anticipated third album. They also uploaded the entire album on YouTube and are giving it for free if you subscribe to their newsletter.

The Lost City of Z (Teaser)

The Lost City of Z (Teaser)

An adaptation of David Grann’s eponymous novel about British surveyor Perry Fawcett. In 1925, Fawcett, his son and another companion went to search for a rumored advanced civilization living deep in Mato Grosso, Brazil. They never returned.

Doctor Who Series 10 (Teaser)

Doctor Who Series 10 (Teaser)

A brief look Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat’s final season, as Doc No. 12 is joined by a new companion – a young woman from planet Earth (surprise) named Bill, played with Spice Girl like enthusiasm by Pearl Mackie. Bonus points for the Wilhelm Scream at 0:32.

Friday the 13th: The Game

Friday the 13th: The Game

(Gore) It’s Evolve, but with Jason Voorhees and stupid campers. Play as Jason or his potential victims in this asymmetrical multiplayer game. As the prey, you can try to hide and wait out the night, escape the camp or take on Jason. Drops 2017 for Windows, Xbox One and PS4.

Alien: Covenant (Trailer)

Alien: Covenant (Trailer)

(PG-13: Gore, Language) We just opened our first Christmas present, and it’s got a xenomorph growing inside of it. Get ready for a return to the darkness, jump scares, and psychological tension galore as Ridley Scott returns once again to the Alien universe.

Bane Premium Format Collectible

Bane Premium Format Collectible
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Sideshow Collectibles nailed it with this badass 23″ tall sculpt of Batman’s muscular nemesis, standing proudly atop a crushed Batsignal beneath his size 20 lace-up, and injects green super-steroids into his bloodstream. We love the angry alternative head baring his chompers.

Bon Iver Live at Pioneer Works

Bon Iver Live at Pioneer Works

NPR Music shares an hour-long set from Bon Iver at Pioneer Works, a contemporary art institution in Brooklyn, New York that counts Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon as one of its advisors. The band mostly played songs from their latest album 22, A Million.

Sony LSPX-P1 Portable UST Projector

Sony LSPX-P1 Portable UST Projector

The LSPX-P1 is a portable ultra short throw projector that can create 720p screens between 22″ to 80″ wide diagonally. It can receive content from mobile devices, or from its included wireless HDMI transmitter. It lasts only 2h per charge though.

Tanner Foust: Quantum Drift

Tanner Foust: Quantum Drift

You might have to travel back in time to 1992 to find a parody of Quantum Leap relevant, but that takes nothing away from Tanner Foust’s mad drifting skills, the insane exhaust notes, and lung-filling dose of tire smoke and dust you’re in store for in the next six minutes.

Dancing in Movies

Dancing in Movies

CLS Videos presents a lively montage of about 300 classic (and not-so-classic) movie scenes which featured characters getting their groove on. We knew we’d love it the second they started off with Les Grossman. Full list of movies here.

DIY 20,000 Gallon Home Aquarium

DIY 20,000 Gallon Home Aquarium

“It’s not so much the fish… I like the challenge of keeping them alive.” We’ve seen a homemade 10,000 gal aquarium. Now let’s check out one that’s double that. It was designed and mostly built by Bill Wann, a natural born inventor.

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