My b2evolution Version: 2.4.x

2.4.0-rc2

I am not sure if that was a very informative title, but here is what I am trying to do:

Concise Version:
I want to be able to display a single Blog Posting by itself, without it being associated (directly) with its blog.

Wordy Version:

I have created global categories that Authors can assign their postings to. Essentially, the Author has their blog space, but if they feel that a certain story is relevant to one of the existing "sitewide" categories, they can flag it as such.

For example, in my blog I write a post about GTA4 being released. Since there is a Gaming section on the site, I assign the article to the Gaming Category. Now people will see this article if they go to my normal blog space where they diligently read me every day, OR they can also see the article by clicking on the Gaming section.

This is where my question comes in (almost). I have the page which pulls any article from any blog that has been assigned to the specific category (let's stick with "Gaming" for this example). So, my GTA4 article is at the top of the page, with Fred's "Mario" writeup, Sue's review of a new controller and the other items that make up the Gaming category.

My problem is that when the reader clicks on the link to view the "article detail" page... well, how do I make this detail page? I can just do a custom query which pulls the article details, no trouble, but I was kind of hoping to use the b2evo automatic article layout (user accounts, comments, login, page-breaks, RSS, tags, etc). I have modified blog skin pages, but b2evo keeps forcing me into a blog (whoever wrote that article) rather than just showing the article. I don't want my layout for the author's minisites to show for these sections. I want the Games layout or Music layout, etc.

1. Should I be creating a special blog for Gaming and somehow associate the posts with that blog?

2. Is there some way I can just access the story without being "pushed" into the blog? (ie games.php?story=gta-4-released)

3. Should I just brute force it and make my own versions of the b2evo functionality?

I guess it comes down to: is this a skinning issue, a coding issue, or...?

Sorry that was so long - any help is appreciated.