Video Games
Buying something for a gamer is one of those universally presumed simple tasks that becomes a lot harder when you find yourself in a shop staring blankly down a shelf because you don’t know what console they own, haven’t been told what they’ve already played and spent twenty minutes looking up whether that game in your hand came out 3 years ago and they’ve played since day one. Been there, done that, got the dodgy speeding ticket Terraria gave us*. Buying for gamers is hard. It looks easy if you’ve never had to do it.
*don’t judge.
This collection is us solving that issue. Every item in here has been picked with one eye looking at who’s getting it and one eye looking at who has to actually pick it for them because let’s be honest both are important jobs. We could list every big franchise with the latest release but that wouldn’t help the gamer who already owns all the stuff everyone thinks to buy first. Or the newbie who is still building up their collection. Or the nocturnal gnome playing Skyrim until the sun comes up. Or the gamer who wants something to blow away the kids minds this weekend. These are all different types of gamer and all have different needs.
Everything we’ve included in here is things we love. Proper controllers. Games that will leave you thinking about them after you’ve finished playing. Accessories that have a use or job to do rather than toss-ins to bulk out a boring box. We play this stuff a lot and if you spend that much time playing games you end up with opinions. Loads of them. We poured those opinions into creating this list.
Rather than trying to cover all gaming needs we wanted to cover them well. The worst part about getting a game for someone else is not knowing if you’ve guessed right. Sure you can pretend you don’t care when they shove it on the backlog pile but what you really want is to hand over that game or controller knowing you’ve scored a bullseye. Everything here we are handing over guilt free. Whether it’s that game they’ve been meaning to buy but kept pushing aside or the offhand mention of that tiny indie game nobody's else is going to know about. Trust us, we know.
Gifts for gamers exist. You just need to know where to find them, and now you do.
