Awesome Leisure

“Synergy bitches!” It’s a full on war between tech giant Hooli and the ragtag heroes of Pied Piper. Fortunately they’ve got new characters to help them out. And Jared. Er, Donald. The second season premieres on 4/12.

We like Tom Cruise best in action and sci-fi flicks. The latest in his Mission Impossible series looks as thrilling as ever, despite the guy being 19 years older than in his first MI movie. Plus, Simon Pegg is back. Yay! Hits theaters 7/31/15.

A local multiplayer fighting game for up to four players inspired by ’80s mecha anime. Players can call in squadrons that fill up the screen in no time. As if that wasn’t chaotic enough, hostile AI pirates may pop up and randomly attack everyone.

The second trailer for the critically-acclaimed sci-fi thriller Ex Machina teases us with intense moments and vivid contrasts between nature and man-made objects, as two men and a female A.I. play tester-testee musical chairs.

An ice-cold single from Michigan-based doomwave band Badass Wolf Shirt. In case the band’s name didn’t give away that they’re goofballs, the song’s “music video” is a scene from the infamous short film Coven.

A spinoff of the space MMO EVE Online, EVE: Valkyrie is an upcoming virtual reality team-based multiplayer dogfighting game for the Oculus Rift, the PlayStation 4 Project Morpheus and other VR platforms.

Our first glimpse at Avengers: Age of Ultron was heavy on the drama. Then we saw a smattering of humor. And now we have this reassurance that yes, the movie will meet its quota of lighthearted quips and nonchalant badassery.

Nike drives the market with stylish clubs that will take you further than you thought possible. Their latest Vapor Speed Driver offers tremendous ball speed, a high quality shaft, easy forgiveness and a multitude of loft and ball flight combinations.

The 20-year old YouTube sensation Hugo Pierre Leclercq aka Madeon has gone big time. To promote his upcoming album Adventure, he set up a simple online mixer that lets you make music using samples from his album.

A trap track about drug addiction. Fiend is a collaboration between Troy Samuela and Monsoonsiren. It’s published by the Foreign Family Collective, the new music and visual arts label founded by electronica duo Odesza.

The foul-mouthed, red-haired squirrel is coming to Xbox One and Windows 8.1 this April, but this time he’s starring in an episodic adventure game built in Microsoft’s Project Spark game engine – which shockingly wasn’t built by Rare.

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This melancholic instrumental’s title says it all. Former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy made We Used to Dance as part of the soundtrack to Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts’ movie While We’re Young.

The Hollywood adaptation of Patrick Jean’s short film is like Wreck-It Ralph for non-gamers. Aliens think the footage of video games included in a time capsule that we sent to space is an act of war, so they attack Earth. Thanks a lot Taito!

“What do you like about living on Earth?” Google’s Emic is a short documentary inspired by the movie Interstellar. It’s a crowdsourced video time capsule to show future generations the happy part of our lives. Exclusive to Google Play.

Director Ruairi Robinson (Blinky) created this epic proof of concept for a science fiction film which involves battling giant worms, as mankind harvests its eggs to enable faster-than-light travel. All we can say is we want to see more.

Mike Tyson posted this motherload of classic fight clips, assembling 10 of his all-time best knockouts. He’s asking for feedback as to which one is best, so it can be featured in Scorsese’s upcoming Tyson biopic starring Jamie Foxx.

(NSFW: Language) Kendrick Lamar’s new album To Pimp a Butterfly is now on Spotify. You can already get his singles i and The Blacker The Berry on iTunes; the rest of the tracks will be available for purchase on 3/23.

LEGO Jurassic World features events and characters from the four Jurassic Park movies. Like many other LEGO games, it will support drop-in/drop-out local multiplayer. You’ll also be able to collect and play as 20 dinosaurs.

(NSFW: Language) A Family Feud-style browser game based on Google search results. You’re presented with the first part of a search and you’ll guess what the rest of it could be. We want to see how Steve Harvey reacts to this.

Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes is a virtual reality party game where only one player can see and interact with the randomly generated time bomb. The other players will refer to a sheet of instructions to assist with the bomb disposal.

Taking a page from their experiences on and after Firefly, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion are crowdfunding a new comedy series about actors who were on a science fiction show that was cancelled way too soon. Watch the teaser here.

For passionate – and rich – Formula One fans. The one day experience at Circuit Of the Americas begins with lessons and warm up rides on go karts, sports cars and supercars. You’ll then ride along on an F1X3 and finally go 3 laps in an F1 car.