With Thanksgiving and Black Friday around the corner, it’s time to start thinking about those gifts and what better gift than a gaming gift. This year, there’s lots of new gadgets and games that would make great stocking stuffers. Here’s our Top 10 gaming gifts for the 2012 holidays.

With three NBA All-Stars on the cover of NBA 2K13, 2K Sports is making the most of its leading men. The sports game publisher has released a new digital film starring Blake Griffin of the Los Angeles Clippers. Griffin shares his NBA 2K13 MyPLAYER with the world. Gamers will be able to see how they match up with SlamDemon32 this October with the launch of NBA 2K13 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii, PSP, PC and mobile. A Wii U version will hit retail stores in November.

With the Republican and Democratic National Conventions kicking this year's election season into high gear, the video game industry is bolstering public engagement and awareness around the upcoming presidential election. Game designers, developers and publishers are teaming up with voter-turnout organizations, and encouraging Americans to exercise their voting rights.

World Golf Tour has slowly, but surely, grown its audience of golf enthusiasts over the years. The free-to-play golf game is the most popular online golf game in the world, beating EA Sports and Tiger Woods at their own game. In addition, www.wgt.com, which doubles as a social media destination for golfers, has become the top golf destination online. The gaming site has beaten out PGA.com and Golf.com to win this title. WGT Media CEO YuChiang Cheng talks about how a small start-up has become such a powerhouse in this exclusive video interview below.

COLOGNE, Germany – The Gamescom Awards are the most coveted prizes in the European games industry and an accolade for outstanding software and hardware. Last week, more than 275,000 visitors to Cologne experienced the spectacular innovations presented at Gamescom 2012. Among them were the 20 international jurors and experts from the world’s leading games media who made up the jury for the Gamescom awards 2012. It was this jury that picked out the winners of the awards for this year’s best games and hardware from more than 100 entries.

NVIDIA Tegra 3 device owners will be getting an enhanced version of Phosphor Games new action adventure game, Horn, which was selected by Zynga as a premiere title in its mobile developers program. Based loosely on the Old English tales of King Horn, gamers will play as a young blacksmith's apprentice named Horn, who is the key to saving his kingdom from an evil curse that’s turned his village into monsters. Chip Sineni, director at Phosphor Games Studio, explains how Tegra 3 makes this beautiful game more breathtaking and exciting in this exclusive interview.

According to a new report, Kids and Consumer Electronics: 2012 Edition, from market research company The NPD Group, tablets are on the rise as gaming devices. Household ownership of console and portable video game systems, media tablets, and digital video cameras experienced the most significant increases.

GRAPEVINE -- The largest video games retailer in the world, GameStop, has seen its sales of used games and hardware increase in recent years. The pre-owned market accounts for a considerable portion of the company’s business. As a result, the company invested $7 million in a refurbishment center down the street from its U.S. headquarters in Grapevine, Texas. Bruce Kulp, svp of supply chain and refurbishment, offers an exclusive look inside the factory in the video below.

While E3 is over and Gamescom is right around the corner, retailer GameStop is offering its PowerUp Rewards members a chance to experience a mini-E3 just like store managers. Every year, the game industry brings in celebrities and game developers to showcase the biggest titles for Christmas and beyond to GameStop managers. This year, the managers will get their own show in San Antonio, Texas, but then approximately 5,000 gamers will get the next day to see everything up-close and experience hands-on with the biggest titles of this year. Nintendo Wii U will have a large presence at this EXPO 2012.

Things are looking up for consumer electronics, thanks to the success of new tablets like the Samsung Nexus and new Smart TVs from Vizio and others. The consumer electronics (CE) industry will see stronger than anticipated growth in 2012, according to the semi-annual industry forecast released by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The overall CE industry will grow an estimated 5.9 percent in the U.S. this year, two points higher than previously projected in January.

Epic Games just got bigger. Chinese Internet, mobile and telecommunications company Tencent Holdings Limited, which already licenses Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 technology, has agreed to acquire a minority stake in the Cary, North Carolina-based game developer.  Following the strategic investment, Epic will continue to operate independently and seek to further expand its game franchises across multiple platforms. The deal is expected to close within one month, subject to customary closing conditions. Terms of the investment were not disclosed.

With E3 2012 now a recent memory, there's a reason video games are receiving more media coverage these days -- even outside of the big trade show. A majority (54%) of Americans play video games each week, up from 50% last year, according to new research from the Magid Media Futures 2012 study. Nearly six out of 10 (58%) men, aged 8-64, play weekly, up from 53% last year. Among women, weekly gamers rose to 51% from 48% last year.