A German man admitted in court that he drugged his girlfriend’s tea one summer night last year so she wouldn’t interrupt his computer game session with a friend. He confessed his crime to her the day after it happened, and was finally convicted of assault this week. He’ll be fined 500 euros.

The latest entry in the Transportation Security Authority's Instagram catalog of heavy artillery: the five-inch, eight-spiked death blade above, which some hapless traveler tried to bring onto a flight from Baltimore-Washington International Airport. But worry not: it was only his trusty spinning axe, straight out of League of Legends.

A 22-year-old college student in Taiwan reportedly set himself on fire and burned to death after his dad criticized his online gaming habit. Xue Jun-Chen's remains were found near his home next to some empty gasoline containers, the Daily Mail reported.

Pranks can a real hoot, sometimes. Just goofin' on your friends, clownin' around, havin' fun. If there's any chance your innocent joke might end with your buddy facedown on the floor with an assault rifle pointed at his back, though, you might want to reconsider.

Merry Christmas. Or not. Whatever winter holiday you celebrate, you probably do it by substituting love and kindness with cheap plastic garbage wrapped in pretty paper. And if you're like us, you find it distracting to put too much thought into what to buy your loved ones. Each year we try to solve that problem by HARNESSING THE AWESOME POWER OF GAWKER MEDIA'S PROPRIETARY PUBLISHING PLATFORM, KINJA, to gather the best gift suggestions the internet has to offer. This year, we've divided the universe of potential gift recipients into readers of our Gawker Media brother and sister sites—I mean, we're all surrounded by Jezebel and Deadspin and Lifehacker types, right? We begin with Kotaku: What should you buy for the nerd gaming person in your life?

Frankly, this post just exists so we can say "sex" a lot. But one of Om Malik's bloggers at the tech site GigaOM discovered a great way to illustrate his anti-booth-babe article about the E3 gaming conference.