Awesome Leisure

Kids, Shopping Cart Hero is actually a sophisticated physics teaching tool. That, and it lets you launch a rocket-powered cart with three of your buddies inside while you do a superman.

Produced to Eddie’s exact specs, the EVH Wolfgang Electric Guitar is the result of two years of R&D and testing; it’s identical to the Wolfgang guitars he records and performs with.

We woulda killed to have one of these Edge Robotic Arms as a kid; when assembled this solder-less DIY kit results in a five-axis arm with an LED-lit gripper that can lift up to 100g.

If Vader was Luke’s father, R2Steam2 is R2D2’s old man; this steampunk’d version of a Hasbro toy is fitted with two steam engines, a Cheddar boiler, brass accents and pressure gauges.

While the cinematic and gameplay trailers were nothing short of awesome, this narrated GTTV preview for White Knight helps to fill in the blanks for the upcomingPS3 exclusive RPG.

You might not be rockin’ like Jimi Hendrix, Slash or Van Halen anytime soon, but this Maestro Guitar Aid concept employs training lasers to help beginners get acquainted with their axe.

It’s been called Unreal Tournament Lite, but CellFactor: Psychokinetic Wars is worth a look with a seemingly endless array of psionic abilities; it’s coming to XBLA and PSN this month.

In addition to card decks like Propaganda, we didn’t realize theory11 also has a library of magic tricks; their latest is called BLIND by danielMadison, a prediction plot with two different decks.

We have a feeling Arnold would look positively puny next to his gigantic, chaingun-wielding T-600 predecessor, teased above from the upcoming Terminator: Salvation video game.

This Halo Vibe video for Halo Wars scores buko bucks with sweet cinematics in the intro, and then relentlessly expounds on the awesomeness of Spartans; we ain’t complaining.

We’ve seen some wild Dunnys, but this Plasma Dunny by Dustin Cantrell takes the cake; enter to win one at ToyCyte by telling them your favorite gadget or tech, real or fictional.

Red Alert: Uprising looks plenty sweet with wrestler Ric Flair and Heroes’ Malcolm McDowell; however, we’re most looking forward to Yuriko Omega’s Diablo-esque missions.

Humans take on the role of space invaders in Planet 51, an animated movie with astronauts landing in an alien planet that looks a bit like 1950s America; it’s due out 11/20/09.

Proof that you don’t need gobs of CPU power and memory to rock out, D-Pad Hero is a sweet little 256KB ROM that runs on a NES emulator; think Guitar Hero or Rock Band in 8-bit.

Because there’s nothing like a life-sized Orc from World of Warcraft to scare off would-be burglars: measuring 72″ and weighing 170 lbs, the giant statue ships from Germany.

The last thing we need is a Defense game to consume our time, but The Tower proved too much to resist; your goal: protect a “heart” block using a variety of defensive blocks and spells.

Professor Rubik (of Rubik’s Cube fame) has invented his first significant new puzzle in years: Rubik’s 360 is a set of three spheres and six balls which focuses on dexterity.

Filled with 240 pages of creative, quirky gadgets, Steve Greenberg’s Gadget Nation covers gems like Personalized Marshmallow Sticks and My Pet Fat, a simulated piece of human fat.

We can’t wait to see the Wolverine movie, so we’re happy to say that this trailer for the video game is equally promising; Logan really takes out a can of whoop ass in this one.

With Yankee Stadium now a part of history, we think The Yankee Years makes a fitting bookend; it’s a delicious, behind the scenes look at the Joe Torre era, written by Joe himself.

Most of the free games we feature are quick and dirty, but Divine Generals is a strategy game a-la Civilization with armies, buildings and research; in short, plan on a long lunch break.

The plot for Red Faction gets a comprehensive workup in the full trailer above; we’re most impressed by its cinematic qualities, which are on par with previews we’d see in a movie theater.

Based off a successful 2006 novel, we like the quirky feel of this trailer for The Damned United; it chronicles the short and largely disastrous tenure of Leeds United coach Brian Clough.