kotaku gift guides 2011

Kotaku Gift Guide: T-Shirts

At GamesCom 2010, a certain publisher (let’s call them Schmarner Schmothers) gave out a few free t-shirts to publicise a popular video game that never got released in Australia (let’s call it Schmortal Schmombat). It was so ugly that one games journalist (let’s call her Schmacey) said: “Man, I would give this shirt to someone I really hate.” Well, Christmas isn’t about hate, so here’s our pick of aesthetically-pleasing t-shirts worth giving this Christmas.


Gifts For Student Who Never Goes Anywhere Without Their iPhone

Ah, the iPhone. The person who has the iPhone — and who never doesn’t have the iPhone — only needs one gift. But surely there’s more than one to recommend.


Gifts For Lapsed Constituents Of The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race

We know that consoles are just outdated computers.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 Give me a Core i7-2600K powered quad SLI gaming rig that I can tinker with over an outdated hunk of sealed tech any day.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.


Gifts For The Person You Want To Finally Start Playing Video Games With You

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.


Kotaku Gift Guide: Gaming Headsets [Update]

Gaming headsets are funny. You could almost literally spend all the money you have on a pair, just for slightly better audio. You could totally do that. You could also spend less for a slightly inferior sound experience and your eardrums would still be caressed, and made love to, by delightful soundwaves. So yeah, it’s a tricky business headphones.


Gifts For Fathers With Kids Who Ruin Games

It’s hard catching a little me time when you’re a father. Especially when you’re a gamer and a father. It’s great to spend time with your children, but it’s also great to take a break. When your break happens to involve a hobby your children love things can get complicated. Here are some gift suggestions to help simplify your life.


Kotaku’s Secret Santa Gift Guide

It’s that time of the year again — the parties, the forced mingling with co-workers, the Christmas Party Committee (CPC) that decides that it’s a good idea to mark the end of the year with lawn bowls (man, has anyone stopped to wonder why it’s the chosen sport of retirees?) and, most tediously, the Secret Santa gift buying. To take some of the pain out of shopping for people you would rather not give anything to, we present you with the Kotaku Secret Santa Gift Guide, where everything is below $20.


Gifts For Someone Who Has All The Games They Want Already

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.


Kotaku Gift Guide: Gaming Laptops

Gaming laptops — are they always a good idea? Some might argue that cost/hardware ratio means that a fully beefed up desktop is always the better option, financially speaking, but there’s something about the seamless design of a slick laptop — along with the obvious benefits of portability — that makes a laptop an attractive purchase. We take a look at some of your options.


Gifts For The Bewildered New Father

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.


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