Awesome Leisure

By all accounts Armada Tanks isn’t anything special, but we found this simple shoot ’em up surprisingly addictive: drive a tank around, collect upgrades and blow the crap out of enemies.

You haven’t lived until you blow $80k on booze: Veuve Clicquot and luxury speedboat maker RIVA have teamed up to sell 4 bottles of champagne for the price of a Corvette Z06.

Lego’s uber cool Death Star is now available. This 16″ monstrosity includes multiple turbolasers, a TIE Advanced fighter, and 24 minifigures; have fun snapping together all 3,803 pieces.

Made with Louisiana molasses from the oldest rum distillery in the United States, Old New Orleans Cajun Spice Rum is a light-bodied rum with hints of gingerbread and cayenne pepper.

Now available for preorder: Iron Man Mark II is the unpainted, pure metallic version of Tony Stark’s vigilante alter ego and boy does it look hot. And yes, it comes with the repulsor hand.

Coming this January: Max Factory will be releasing this sweet Scopedog unit from the Japanese anime series, Armored Trooper VOTOMS. Check out all those hands and attachments!

Warning: the trailer above is LOUD. Somewhat like R-Type on steroids, Soldner-X is a 1080p side scrolling shooter by EastAsiaSoft. Available for the PC, a PS3 version is coming soon.

Get your post apocalyptic fix with Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse, a collection of end of the world tales by Stephen King, Orson Scott Card and Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow.

Mega construction-bot Devastator is confirmed for Transformers 2; he’ll be composed of seven different vehicles. We can only hope it looks like the rendering above by Josh Nizzi.

Written by Sin City’s Frank Miller and superbly illustrated by David Mazucchelli, Batman: Year One is a gritty look into Batman’s origins and a great companion to The Dark Knight.

Dezeen has a sweet collection of Street Style Urban Gnomes; they’re made by London-based designed Vitamin and will show next week at the London Design Festival.

Sean Cooper’s addictive Boxhead is a free flash game with clean, crisp artwork and waves of zombies; if that wasn’t enough, they also have co-op and death match modes.

If wine gets better with age, Fossil Fuels’ Brewing Co. blows vineyards out of the water with their uber-ancient beer: it’s made with yeast extracted from 25-45 million year old amber.

This 8″ Caprica Cylon faithfully reproduces the centurions from the reimagined BSG series, with 20+ articulating points, 3 sets of hands and 2 sets of wrist-mounted weaponry.

Coming 1Q 2009, Plain Sight starts innocently enough with a cute robot gallivanting around a Tron-esque cityscape. That is, until he takes out a sword and starts kicking robot ass.

First there were his Minigods, and now Marka27’s hitting us again with his Killa Instinct Vinyls. You can preorder this 10″ figure, which comes with a bolt cutter, gas mask and spray can.

It’s not as lux as the bespoke Opus Football, but the Diamond Plate Foosball table is still extra swank with diamond plate accents and a built-in MP3 player dock with speakers.

Granted we’re grown-up and all, but we’re giddy for Lego’s Castle Troll Assault Wagon. A goofy mix of LOTR and Warhammer, it even comes with two hapless knights.

It’s like two sins for the price of one: Tabasco has teamed up with Heaven Hill Distilleries to release Tabasco Spicy Tequila. Oh, the Mojitos and Sangritas we’ll make with this…

If high school bio and anatomy got together, you’d get Emilio Garcia’s Jumping Brains. The limited edition RGB brains are already sold out, but DIY 3″ resin brains are coming soon.

Above is an extremely short teaser for the upcoming Gatchaman movie. It looks almost like a spinoff of the recent Speed Racer movie; let’s just hope it has a coherent storyline.

Transit Maps of the World is perfect for map lovers; it contains every urban transit map on Earth and makes an excellent coffee table book. Our fave: a fictional world transit map.

Traditional golfers tend to frown on Hybrid clubs, but most who try Adams Idea’s A3 Boxer Hybrids swear by them: they’re easier to hit with, and hit straighter, longer and higher.