Awesome Leisure

Blizzard’s latest short film for its hit fps Overwatch introduces the much-hyped support character Sombra (“Shadow”). Sombra uses her hacking skills to manipulate even the highest ranks of authority for personal gain. Boop!

Formerly known as Enemy Starfighter, the one-man effort House of the Dying Sun puts you in the cockpit of a fighter pilot exacting revenge on the traitors who killed your emperor. The game is short, but it makes up for it with quality space dogfights and unlockables.

From the makers of the Seaboard comes a modular and newbie-friendly MIDI controller. Blocks’ main unit is the Lightpad, a pressure-sensitive block. You can connect multiple Lightpads together or with the optional control Blocks. Works with iOS and desktop DAWs.

The latest Figma action figure in Max Factory’s Table Museum series is the first to be based on a painting. It’s none other than the tormented figure from Edvard Munch’s The Scream. It’s articulated but keeps the proportion of the character. We need its poses as emoji.

Pay what you want for the debut album from Air Credits, the collab outfit of indie mashup specialists The Hood Internet and rapper Showyousuck. Like their solo pieces, Broadcasted is filled with pop culture references, humor and energetic remixes.

Designed by pastry queen Jessica Leigh Clark-Bojin of Pies Are Awesome, these stencils make it easy for anyone to create awesomely geeky pies. Designs include C’thulhu, a fire-breathing dragon, a prancing unicorn, and a kittens with deadly weapons, among others.

A gas station clerk on the graveyard shift is rescued from her boredom by a stranger whom she suspects is up to no good. Ena Sendijarevic’s beautifully shot silent film is adult life in a nutshell.

You don’t have to go to Westworld to enjoy its player piano saloon songs. Warner Bros. has released the title theme as well as some of the covers featured in HBO’s series, all by by Ramin Djawadi, the same composer behind Iron Man, Game of Thrones and Pacific Rim.

The iTENS device is like having a personal trigger point therapist: this small yet mighty portable device buzzes tiny electrical signals through the skin to intercept pain, helps release endorphins and works via your smartphone. So proceed with confidence, weekend warriors.

We’ve featured a number of Pawel “Sariel” Kmiec’s incredible LEGO Technic builds. Now learn from the best with this 424-page guide which takes you from basic building principles up through sturdy and complex mechanisms so you can make your own wonderful machines.

The latest trailer for the solo adventure of Will Arnett’s blocky Batman emphasizes Bruce Wayne’s emotional conflict: he’s lonely, but he’s also afraid of losing his loved ones again. What he doesn’t realize is that he already has family. Even the Joker wants his attention.

The pilot episode of Owen Dennis’ cartoon Infinity Train. It’s about a girl and her schizophrenic robot sidekick – sidekicks? – who are trapped in an extraordinarily long and cavernous train. In this episode, she enters a car containing a kingdom of Corgis.

(PG-13: Language) Woody Harrelson plays a lonely middle-aged man desperate to connect with others but also unable to repress his incredulity at life’s absurdity. Daniel Clowes wrote and directed this adaptation of his eponymous graphic novel.

A sandpiper encourages her chick to fetch food on her own. With the help of a new friend, the little one learns that if others can do it, she can do it too. Pixar’s animated short was shown alongside Finding Dory and is also included in Finding Dory home videos.

(PG-13) Mark, Spud, Sick Boy, Begbie, and director Danny Boyle reunite 20 years after the chaos of Trainspotting, and this time out, we learn that more things change, the more they stay the same.

It’s hard enough to get adult-sized digits in the right neck positions on a normal ukulele, so we have no idea how musician Ian Emmerson managed to cram his fat fingers in the proper spots to play this ridiculously tiny instrument.

Netflix offers another brief tease of its upcoming adaptation of Lemony Snicket’s classic book series, this time giving us our first glimpse at the villainous Count Olaf, as played by the always wonderful Neil Patrick Harris. We’ve blocked out our calendars for 1/13/16.

After getting just the tiniest glimpse at Gal Gadot in Batman v. Superman, it’s time for another mighty crimefighter to rise. This origin story follows Diana Prince as she leaves her home on Paradise Island to take on all manner of baddies during World War I.

This spectacular mountain bike uses a clutching mechanism to send power from the rear wheel via a set of interlocking driveshafts. If you can’t afford one, pledge just a little bit and support adventurer Kate Leeming, and her mission to bike to cross Antarctica and the South Pole.

Did you know that Joaquin Phoenix almost got the part of Stephen Strange in Marvel’s Cinematic Universe? That bombshell and more in CineFix’s trivia video about Doctor Strange. Also, we’ve seen it, and think it’s good enough you’ll want to see it on the big screen.

Take your toy collection back to the ’80s courtesy of Funko. Expect 3.5″ vinyl bigheads of Will, Dustin, Lucas, Mike, two versions of Eleven (with Eggos), Barb, and open and closed mouth Demogorgons. Pre-order now for April 2017 delivery. Upside-down universe not included.

Bring justice to your bookshelf with Max Factory’s officially licensed Phoenix Wright action figure. The 6″  figure comes with extra hands, a mug, papers, a desk, three heads and three speech bubbles. Pre-order it from Good Smile to get a bonus head.

LightMode’s new and improved electroluminescent helmet lighting kit now has a more aerodynamic, water-resistant, detachable and USB-charged control unit. The kit has everything you need to decorate your helmet (and many other objects).