Awesome Leisure

Mark Vidler mashed up the lyrics of the Beatles’ Paperback Writer with the music from the Knack’s My Sharona. We know both songs too well for the mix to work its charm on us, but we love how well-made it is.

Not to be outdone by its rival, Microsoft is now taking pre-orders for a white version of the Xbox One. It’s not bundled with a Kinect, but the console will come with a copy of Sunset Overdrive and a matching white controller.

(NSFW: Language) Chi-town’s music mavens Aaron Brink and Steve Reidell mash up hip hop songs with indie and underground tracks as The Hood Internet. Their eighth mixtape features Drake, Baauer, Chvrches, Yeasayer and more.

A fantasy horror RPG set in the Old West. Hard West will have an overworld map for exploration, trading and quests. Its combat will be tactical turn-based, where players can ricochet or curve bullets and use shadows to their advantage.

A six-wheeled electric skateboard made to emulate the feeling and mechanics of snowboarding. Its two middle wheels are casters, each with a 2kW brushless motor, letting you slide to turn or stop and even carve uphill.

A free website that aggregates YouTube videos from the 70s to the 90s and arranges them by decade and by categories. The videos play on period appropriate TV frames, and it displays white noise when you switch channels.

Some of the new features in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s multiplayer. Check out new weapons such as a wrist-mounted grenade and a beam rifle as well as customizable augmentations like boost jump, shield and stealth.

Level up your drink with Gama-Go’s silly flask that looks like an old Nintendo Game Boy. Guaranteed not to play Tetris or Pokémon Red or Green – unless you’re really drunk. Made from BPA-free plastic and holds 4.5 oz.

A new Silent Hill game was revealed through an unassuming horror mini-game for the PlayStation 4. The game’s ending reveals that Hideo Kojima and Guillermo del Toro are working on Silent Hills, which will star Norman Reedus.

This short film by Kalum Ko looks at the mission that adventurer Bruce Kirkby undertook to cross the Georgia Straight from Vancouver to Victoria on a stand-up paddleboard, waxing philosophical on the true spirit of adventure along the way.

(NSFW: Language) Gunpoint creator Tom Francis is back with another unique stealth action game. Heat Signature is a randomly generated game about sneaking into spaceships to get information or steal items.

Australian breakdancer Simon Ata demonstrates some of the exercises he does to keep in shape for his dance routines, with precision control over muscles we didn’t even knew existed. Seriously, this is some next level Cirque du Soleil sh*t.

A free promotional spinoff of the run-and-gun action movie parody Broforce. It has 10 missions and 7 playable characters from The Expendables 3. It also supports local co-op. One of the few movie tie-in games that don’t suck.

With HBO’s Boardwalk Empire drawing to a close after the upcoming season, there’s no question that big changes are in store for Nucky’s N.J. kingdom. Given the show’s track record, we expect some blood will be spilled along the way.

Made by Andreas Bhend, Miilo is an extendable children’s bicycle. It starts out as a trainer bike, but you can upgrade it to a fixed gear bicycle using most of its existing parts to adapt to a child’s growth.

KDP Trick Shots demonstrates a basketball shot which required not only precise aim, but the gymnastic skills to perform a backflip and a bicycle kick to score a 3-pointer. And if you thought that was impressive, watch this.

The Clan is back.  The hip-hop supergroup – all accounted for (RIP ODB) and seemingly at peace with each other – dropped by The Daily Show to promote their upcoming album. They also performed a new song and closed with Triumph.

With an animation style reminiscent of Little Big Planet, and producer Guillermo del Toro behind the project, we’re looking forward to this family-friendly Romeo and Juliet story, directed by illustrator and animator Jorge Gutierrez.

A discharged soldier visits his fallen comrade’s grieving family, claiming that he promised his departed friend that he would look after them. From the makers of You’re Next. Starring Dan Stevens (Downton Abbey).

Based on the GameCube and Wii remake of the original Resident Evil, the remastered edition will offer up to 1080p graphics, 5.1 surround sound and 4:3 or 16:9 display modes. Coming to PS3, Xbox 360, PS4, Xbox One and PC in 2015.

The story of one of the world’s most extraordinary men, Stephen Hawking, following his life as a young man, his relationship with his wife Jane, his diagnosis of ALS, and his incredible discoveries in the face of terrible adversity.

A flask with a practical accessory. The removable silicone funnel will make it easier to fill up or empty the 8oz. titanium flask. UrbanDaddy members can pre-order the flask right now; the rest of you will have to wait until 8/20.

There are plenty of fight scenes done by male stunt performers, but this reel of stuntwoman Mickey Facchinello dishing out beatdowns as well as she takes them will have you covering your junk in fear by the time it’s over. More here.