Awesome Leisure

Love’s Crushing Diamond is the brilliant album from Jordan Lee aka Mutual Benefit. Inspired by Lee’s life on the road, the album’s “lush, watery pop songs” feel like cold nights spent with loved ones. Watch him play live here. (Thanks Karlo!)

A version of the classic board game in which your goal is to fortify properties to protect yourself from the horde – given the fact that there is no real estate market during the zombie apocalypse. Go directly to jail. It’s your home afterall.

Better late than never. Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard’s take on the MOBA genre. It features characters from its games – Diablo, Kerrigan, Arthas etc. – and attempts to streamline the team-based game. Gameplay here.

Microsoft finally reveals why the Kinect has to be bundled with the Xbox One. This demo shows off the next-gen duo’s impressive multitasking and accurate voice command feature, capable of mapping your voice to your own Xbox profile.

The latest trailer for The Day of the Doctor, the 50th anniversary special episode of Doctor Who. The Tenth Doctor returns to team up with his latest incarnation to fend off the “Doctor’s own dangerous past.” And compare accessories.

We’ll be playing the actual game in less than a week, but for now let this live-action trailer for Killzone: Shadow Fall set the stage for the epic battles that await PS4 players on 11/15. Download high-bitrate HD game footage here.

The full trailer for Studio Ghibli’s Kaguya-hime no Monogatari shows the story’s beginning: a bamboo cutter finds a mystical child inside a bamboo stump and takes her home. This is going to make a lot of kids cry.

Downhill longboard champion Decio Lourenco challenges the sporty and compact Mercedes-Benz A 45 AMG wagon on twisty switchbacks in a short film that’s more about beautiful scenery and cinematography than who’s actually faster.

(Gore) The sequel to the balls to the wall action film The Raid: Redemption. The Raid 2: Berandal (Retaliation) sees the return of hero cop Rama, who infiltrates an Indonesian crime syndicate to uncover its ties to the police force.

The trailer for the international release of Square Enix’ hit Nintendo 3DS RPG Bravely Default: Flying Fairy. It’s a classic Final Fantasy game in all but name (and what a name it has), from its art to its combat. Hits Europe on 12/13; US in 2014.

The slick and shiny final trailer for one of the Xbox One launch games Forza Motorsport 5. Sadly the gameplay footage’s been compressed to hell, but you can imagine how good that looks in person. The last bit was quite the tease.

Daredevil Yves “Jetman” Rossy recently completed his latest flight, this time buzzing by the incredibly majestic sights of Mount Fuji in Japan. We still can’t imagine how loud it must be to have four jets strapped to your body like that.

The latest trailer for the new Robocop flick gives us hope that the reboot could actually be good. If nothing else, it’s got Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton, and a ton of cool VFX. Bonus points: It’s NOT in 3D.

Support charity and pay what you want for Steam keys of some of Warner Brothers’ Windows games: Batman: Arkham Asylum, Fear 2 & 3 and LotR: War in the North. Beat the average to get Scribblenauts Unlimited and Arkham City.

Vasiliy Patrakov takes us on a breakneck run across rooftops, up trees, down alleyways, over fences, and through the streets of Russia’s capital city – capturing the whole thing with a POV camera, so we can play along, Mirror’s Edge style.

A suburban teen gets involved in a street gang, and ends up in a maximum security prison with the most hardened of criminals. Based on a true story. Stars James Woods, Mary-Louise Parker, Ving Rhames, and newcomer Spencer Lofranco.

The latest trailer for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug is very exciting, but it’s also particularly ominous. When two wizened and bearded dudes tell you you’re in grave danger, you’re in grave danger.

Armorer Tony Swatton continues to build out his arsenal of melee weaponry with Thor’s mighty Mjölnir. Swatton built this impressive hammer with a hollow chromoly steel head so he could actually lift it, though it still weighs about 20 lbs.

This new trailer for Capybara Games’ 2D action game and Denver The Last Dinosaur homage Super Time Force outlines the basics of its gameplay, including its strictly bananas weapons and single player co-op by way of time travel.

The humorous trailer for astronaut Chris Hadfield’s non-fiction book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth. In the book, Hadfield talks about his experiences as an astronaut and the lessons he learned from them.

Turn any HDTV into a big screen home arcade. This complete system comes with 250 classic arcade games, arcade quality joysticks, buttons, and trackball. Has wheels for easy movement and can also control Xbox 360, PS3 and Wii U.

Asthree Works turns the table on a popular sci-fi trope. Play as a plant-like alien captured by a secret government organization. Use your powers to sneak and defeat the humans in this stealth platformer for Windows, OS X and Linux.

(NSFW: Language, Gore, Offensive humor) Ubisoft has delayed the release of South Park: The Stick of Truth to 2014. For now we’ll have to make do with this gameplay footage. It is just as brilliantly wrong as you’d expect.