Awesome Leisure

The latest album from indie pop rockers Los Campesinos! Judging from the singles, they still haven’t lost their charm. Click the link to listen to By Your Hand, one of the songs from the album.

When life gives you lemons, Cave Johnson has the answer. Now you can have the sage advice of Aperture Labs’ founder hanging over your fireplace. Or your bed. We love you, J.K. Simmons.

Through sheer will, determination (and perhaps a bit of an OCD), Tai Star manages to balance a stack of 3117 coins on top of a single dime. Fortunately, he doesn’t live in an earthquake zone.

Before you start procrastinating about your holiday shopping, check out dozens of our favorite finds, hand-picked by the editors of The Awesomer, and ripe for the gifting.

(NSFW: Language) This trailer basically walks us through the whole movie. But no one’s going to see this for the story anyway. We hope there are more fights and jokes than what’s here though.

Michael Bay takes a stab at directing a CGI trailer for the upcoming EA racer Need for Speed: The Run. It’s as action- and explosion- packed as you’d expect, and makes the game look great.

Take down your office enemies with a new bunch of evil weapons you can make from office supplies and common household items. The pushpin darts and paper throwing stars sound painful.

Germany meets The Walking Dead in this upcoming zombie web-series from director Moritz Mohr. Even if there’s no subtitles, quality zombie kills are the international language.

A prototype of the upcoming video game Rainbow 6 Patriots shows gameplay that presents players with different angles to a story. We hope the finished product is as engaging and breathtaking.

Isao Machii shows off his blade mastery, slicing and dicing straw mats, eggs, vegetables, and bullets with amazing precision and power. He’ll definitely beat you at Fruit Ninja too.

(NSFW: Language) You’ve seen the trailer, now see the whole silly 11 minute film, featuring fishing, Penn Jillette, Adam Savage, plentiful gore, and of course, zombie little people.

Remember Mari0, the Mario x Portal mashup game that’s currently in development? Here’s some recent test level footage, and it’s looking great. Though GLaDOS must be in another castle.

Sure, we get some new Muppets later this month, but the UK gets Mongrels for a second season. This warped, adults-only “multispecies” puppet show needs to find its way to the US. Now.

Chadwick & Joe’s PHX-1 tool combines the Hi-Tec-C and Signo DX pens, a hobby knife and a designer ruler with 7 measurements into a stainless steel body and a sustainable bamboo case.

(NSFW: Language) A take-off of the classic Fox TV series. We don’t know how anyone could look at Channing Tatum and believe that he’s a high school student, but whatever. It could still be funny.

We’re a little late to the party, but here’s the music video for Midnight City, the single from M83’s latest album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. Also available in double CD and vinyl formats. Must buy.

Made by Bernhard Handler, Roadeo is a racing game with an odd twist: instead of two cars going head-to-head, it pits a car against the road it’s on. It has both versus and co-op multiplayer modes.

Really emphasize your skate-or-die lifestyle with one of these coffin-shaped decks from Corpse Corps. They come in a 9″ standardized design or a handcrafted 10″ featuring limited-edition artwork.

Think you have crazy neighbors? These guys moved in next to a pair of loudmouth, borderline insane men who fought all the time, and recorded the best arguments through their paper-thin walls.

There aren’t a whole lot of things we’d go back to school for, but learning to fly a jet pack is definitely one of them. Pro pilot Eric Scott helps novice flyers get in the air. It’s BYO jet pack, though.

Two employees of a hotel that’s about to close for good spend their last working days searching for evidence of the hotel’s rumored ghost. Yep, they deserve whatever happens to them. HD here.

It was only a matter of time before Rockstar would reveal its first look at GTA V. The city of Los Santos is brimming over with fast cars, fast women, gangbangers, derelicts, and shiny new graphics.

Footage from what’s most probably the opening sequence of the upcoming beat ’em up Asura’s Wrath. It does look like it’s similar to God of War gameplay-wise, with absurd finishers and QTEs.