The future of gaming? Huge stadiums, like those for football and soccer, with cavernous interiors and screaming fans. That's the vision of Kansas City-based architects Populous, designers of sports venues all over the world, including London's 2012 Olympic stadium. Read on Gizmodo 12/06/13 11:32am 12/06/13 11:32am

If there's a tabletop gamer in your life, your gift-giving dilemma is one of abundance – there are so many awesome things to give a gamer, how do you pick the right one? We'll sort you out with this guide to great gaming gifts. Read on io9 11/29/13 12:49am 11/29/13 12:49am

Magic: the Gathering's legendary casual format, Commander, got a huge boost this month with the release of five new decks full of multiplayer shenanigans. This guide to Commander will help you get started and find the right deck to destroy your friends in the most horribly fun way possible. Read on io9 11/24/13 5:27pm 11/24/13 5:27pm

Sorry about the sheer verticality of this post, but we've got a ton of deals to remind you about from this week, along with a list of new ones that could have headlined our regular deal roundups. Please also take this opportunity to follow us on Twitter, as we really want to be able to ping you quickly with deals over… Read on Gizmodo 11/24/13 4:14pm 11/24/13 4:14pm

Both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One want to be way more than just your gaming console—they want to be the centerpiece of your home entertainment system. This week, we got our first look at the apps that'll launch with both consoles. Here's how they measure up. Read on Gizmodo 11/08/13 2:18pm 11/08/13 2:18pm

Grand Theft Auto has long been known for parodying everything from vehicles, to advertising, to pop culture, to even the technology that dominates the time. So it's not surprising to see one of the characters in the recently released GTA V using an iPhone parody called the iFruit. And now you can actually get your… Read on Gizmodo 9/30/13 10:45pm 9/30/13 10:45pm

Steam is the most popular electronic desktop game distribution method in the planet. So popular that its developers think it will be a great idea to make a Steam Box, a custom gaming and media PC that will connect to your TV and compete with the Xbox One or the PS4. Read on Sploid 9/23/13 8:04pm 9/23/13 8:04pm

Windows: If you've ever played a full-screen game and wished you could open a browser or respond to an IM without tabbing out, Overwolf is the utility for you. The app adds useful tools so you can look up strategies, chat with friends, control your music, and more, all without leaving the game. Read on Lifehacker 5/31/13 9:28am 5/31/13 9:28am

It's much easier to assign a bogeyman to explain away why you can't own something than it is to simply say you can't afford it. And this natural human tendency might explain why the backlash against Microsoft's reported treatment of Xbox One used games has become a moral imperative, instead of one about how goddamn… Read on Gizmodo 5/28/13 11:22pm 5/28/13 11:22pm

Angry Birds fans, you billion-strong horde of avian slingshotters you, here's your opportunity to create your own feathered mascots out of Lego bricks. Just use these step-by-step YouTube tutorials. Read on LEGO 5/28/13 12:12pm 5/28/13 12:12pm

Most of us would probably like to be citizen scientists, but we're too busy — and yet we sink billions of hours into social gaming. So some savvy researchers are harnessing our love of gaming, to help advance the goals of science, using thousands of brains to sort through data. Here are eight games you can play... for… Read on io9 5/01/13 8:03pm 5/01/13 8:03pm

With his first novel, Soon I Will Be Invincible, Austin Grossman brought dark, neurotic humor to the superhero genre. With YOU, a semi-realistic novel about a young videogame designer, he does something more profound. His characters' identities are forged during gameplay, so they can only come to terms with the past… Read on io9 4/18/13 11:13pm 4/18/13 11:13pm

This tweet from Techlife's gaming & social media editor, Rae Johnston, is what Johnston calls “total payback for women who’ve ever been questioned about their gaming credibility or bagged for playing video games” and is just plain funny. Discuss on Groupthink 4/11/13 4:47pm 4/11/13 4:47pm

It took three weeks of hard work to finish this custom pinball machine, which simulates Pokémon Ruby/Sapphire Pinball and the classic Pokémon Pinball, originally released on Game Boy Color. Read… 3/22/13 9:20am 3/22/13 9:20am