Awesome Leisure

Freerunner Ryan Doyle takes us on an enchanting and enthralling parkour run through the exotic locale of Mardin, located in Turkey. Have you ever seen pigeons do backflips before? Us neither.

Ok, so there’s no Hawkeye or Black Widow, but you’ll want to bake up a batch of these mini-cakes for your next Marvel comic hero movie screening. Cake decorating superpowers not included.

Nathan Drake channels John McClane in this trailer for Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, showing that he’s both a caring lover and a persistent fighter. And also keeps on falling off large vehicles.

Not only is this pool table water- and weather-proof so you can play outdoors year-round, but it offers a brightly lit glowing tabletop and pockets for those all-night 8-ball marathons.

Contemporary musicians including OK Go, Weezer, My Morning Jacket, Sondre Lerche, and Andrew Bird take on classic Muppet tunes. Preview the entire album over at NPR Music: First Listen.

In preparation for CoD: Black Ops’ Rezurrection downloadable zombie map pack, the team gives us a little background into their lab research into zombie behavior – and optimal killing techniques.

Gameplay trailer for Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, showing old man Ezio and his predecessor Altair doing what they do best: jumping out of high places and stabbing people stylishly.

Make a drum set out of anything with TableDrum. Map an object to a drum sample and when you hit the object, it will trigger the sample in real time, as if you were playing an actual drum set.

Online spirits retailer Master of Malt is offering Drinks by the Dram samples in simple, stylish packaging; customers can purchase 3cl samples of whisky at the fraction of the price of a whole bottle.

Watch Kazuya get spammed to death with Hadoukens and more in this action-packed look at the combat system of Street Fighter X Tekken. Also has a handful of character reveals.

BioWare highlights the third-person shooter aspect of Mass Effect 3. Watch Shepard, Liara and Garrus use a combination of powers and weapons to take down several soldiers of… Cerberus?!

Thought up by Zero2Infinity, the helium filled Bloon Balloon plans on providing relatively cheap cruises of the upper stratosphere in a specially crafted pod that can be launched from anywhere on the planet.

We still enjoy the antics of beloved YouTube cat Maru, even though he has sold himself out now and is about to release a book. On the other hand we’re jumping on the list for preorder, because why not?

The first trailer for Valve Software’s upcoming RTS-action RPG hybrid DOTA 2. The lead designer for the game is IceFrog, who is also the current developer of the original DOTA WarCraft III mod.

A look at the loony character and weapon customization options in Gotham City Impostors. The unlikely combination of Batman, humor and FPS is turning out to be a winning recipe.

Bioshock Infinite isn’t even out yet, but it’s as if Elizabeth herself opened a tear from the game world and walked into ours, thanks to cosplayer Ormeli and her accurate and beautiful work.

The Big Easy offers some of the best iced coffee on the planet. Maybe it’s the sweltering heat that makes it taste better. Get a little shot of heaven with this NOLA-style concentrate (made in NYC.)

(NSFW: Language) Quirky Japanese game? Yep. Sexy cheerleader? Check. Zombies? Indeed. Chainsaw kills? Absolutely. Sign us up. From the twisted minds of Suda51 and James Gunn.

Hold on to your shorts for a beautiful, death-defying flight through the mountains of Stryn, Norway. For the first minute or so, we had no idea how or where these guys were going to land.

(NSFW: Language) Just because this motorized sled runs on solar power doesn’t mean that it can’t zip along at breakneck speeds, taking its creators for a scenic ride along an abandoned railroad track.

Footage from the grand opening of the Tempest Freerunning Academy. With a an array of walls, ramps, trampolines, bars and foam pits, it’s the parkour or freerunning enthusiast’s idea of heaven.

The iconic Volkswagen T1 Camper Van gets immortalized in LEGO form. This official 1,332 piece kit has working doors, windows, and a detailed interior and engine. Out this October for ~$100.

While it doesn’t have every Coen Brothers movie, it does include four of their most inarguably awesome masterpieces: Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, Raising Arizona, and Fargo. Heck-ya!