We know that consoles are just outdated computers. Computers are the past, present and future of gaming. Give me a Core i7-2600K powered quad SLI gaming rig that I can tinker with over an outdated hunk of sealed tech any day. We PC gamers don’t need a lot, but here are a few solid suggestions for gift ideas.

You’ve tolerated their presence in your life for years. Maybe it’s because they have attractive physical attributes, pay half your rent or gone halfsies. It might even be all three. But if your partner — or heck, maybe just your roommate — is really going to understand who you are in the depths of your soul, then it’s way past time that they pick up a controller and participate in your greatest passion. Try out the suggestions below for ways to impart your game devotion to the people you love.

As soon as games launch, he or she’s got ‘em. This gamer doesn’t just play games, this gamer collects them. Their back catalogue is more than a best-of or a bunch of favourites, it’s a compendium — a library.

He used to be so well-groomed, full of life and laid back. Now he hasn’t shaved for days, his clothes are covered with milky-white vomit, and he is constantly shifting between half-dead and high alert. He’s a bewildered new father, and he doesn’t even know what he wants anymore.

The child who inherits an old iPod touch begins a lifelong relationship with the joys — and, let’s be real, frustrations — of technology. Still, pre-teens today have it pretty good. Nearly every handheld gadget around — from most low-end mobile phones to Kindles and iPod touches — rivals the computers and consoles of yore in terms of the speed and multitasking they offer.