Awesome Leisure

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a rocket-powered bicycle, but it is the first time we’ve seen one go faster than a supercar, hitting 207mph in just 5 secs. We’re just amazed that daredevil rider Francois Gissy managed to hold on to it.

Trivia maven Dan Lewis has a new paperback collection. Now I Know More: The Revealing Stories Behind Even More of the World’s Most Interesting Facts contains 101 interesting stories in Dan’s trademark engaging prose.

(NSFW: Language) Up-and-coming British rapper Theo Kerlin aka Master Shortie drops naughty verses over a smooth and addictive beat in Afrocentric Chicken, a single from his upcoming EP Theodore.

Disney’s star-studded Holiday movie, Into the Woods is an adaptation of the critically-acclaimed dark comedy musical about a couple who encounters various fairy tale characters in their quest to rid themselves of a witch’s curse.

“My life for Aiur.” Hierarch Artanis and the volatile Protoss alliance prepare to take back their home world from the Zerg. StarCraft II: Legacy of the Void also adds new units, updates to old ones as well as three new multiplayer modes.

The sequel to the 2012 sci-fi comedy about Nazis on the Moon, Iron Sky The Coming Race ditches the final frontier for a hidden civilization underneath the Earth… where there are Nazis. And Nazi dinosaurs. What?

The cinematic trailer for Blizzard’s upcoming team-based first-person shooter Overwatch. It’s worth watching even if you’re not planning on playing the game, as it’s a short film on its own. What we want to know is, will there be hats?

The only thing darker than Killspencer’s murdered out mini basketball hoop is its price. It comes in all black maple, leather and metal or with a 24k gold-plated rim and gold foil net. Oh and the ball? Sold separately. $300. Damn.

Concrete Jungle combines city simulation with deckbuilding and tile-laying. Make a deck of structure cards then place them on a grid so that the leftmost column of your city meets the point quota. Coming to Windows, Mac and Linux.

A spinoff of a minigame in Super Mario 3D World, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker for the Wii U sees the pudgy hero and his partner Toadette search for gold stars on miniature levels. How can you not help a guy that cute?

“You have but one question to answer: how shall this day end?” The Dwarves, the Wood-elves, the Men of the Lake, the Goblins and the Warg clash upon the Lonely Mountain in The Hobbit: The Battle of Five Armies.

(NSFW: Language) “If I give you this money and you don’t pay me back…” Mark Wahlberg, Michael Kenneth Williams and a thug lord John Goodman star in this remake of the eponymous 1974 film about a gambling addict.

A rousing track by post-rock artist Son Lux. No Fate Awaits Me is his contribution to the soundtrack of Ned Benson’s film trilogy The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby. Son Lux also made a spinoff album inspired by the movie.

Nintendo announced the port of Link’s dark Nintendo 64 adventure with this appropriately creepy trailer. The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D will be released for the Nintendo 3DS & 2DS on Spring 2015.

Monopoly is just so much cooler played with dice made out of solid chunks of aluminum. By precisely varying the depths of the pips, each side weighs exactly the same, resulting in fair, perfectly balanced throws every time.

This crazy looking all-terrain downhill skateboard has 36 wheels and tank-like treads so you can ride it down everything from grass- to dirt- to snow-covered hills. It’s got a lot more drag than a traditional skateboard, though.

From the makers of Cubelets comes a more advanced modular robot kit. MOSS uses magnets embedded in each block along with steel bearings to create connections. There will also be Artist Series sets with themed paint and graphics.

If you longed for the times when Diablo was actually creepy, check out Eitr. It’s an upcoming indie action RPG inspired by Blizzard’s series as well as Dark Souls. The art style and the sound effects are pretty neat if you ask us. More here.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) The rumors were true. The ports of Grand Theft Auto V for PC, PS4 and Xbox One will let you toggle between third- and first-person mode. The latter will have new animations, interfaces and control schemes.

(NSFW: Language, Gore) Filmmaker Ilya Naishuller – the man behind his band Biting Elbows’ first-person action videos – made the first full-length action movie that’s shot entirely from the point of view of the hero. Teaser at 3:58.

From director Neill Blomkamp (District 9, Elysium) comes a drama about a robot child created specifically to learn, adapt and feel like a human being. Starring Dev Patel, Sharlto Copley, Sigourney Weaver and Hugh Jackman.

Jason Scott and the folks at the Internet Archive made a Javascript version of a console emulator and used that to port about 900 classic arcade games, all playable (albeit with some glitches) right in your web browser.

We’ve seen plenty of videos flaunting individual trick shot skills, but we can only imagine the amount of coordination, skill (and luck) it took to get all 10 of these basketballs to sink in the net without one person missing their shot.