What to give to a man who loves technology and video games this Christmas?

Christmas is approaching and with it the commitment or the desire to want to give someone you want a nice detail. But many times it happens to us that we do not know exactly what to give to a man who loves technology and video games. They are very wide markets and very enthusiastic, so it is very generic and wide what they may like.

To help you decide christmas gifts for men, we have created a series of tips to be able to make a gift that is close to being the ideal. With these, the chances are high that you will get your gift right.

Subscription or balance gift cards, never fail

It may seem generic, but getting a little right with what that person wants to whom you want to give a Christmas cheer is more than enough. Here we highly recommend the PlaySyation, Nintendo Switch or Steam credit cards, which give what you eat for what you serve depending on what you pay and let whoever receives it spend it on whatever they want and thus do not fail.

Here it depends on the console that person has. If you have an Xbox One, Xbox Series or a good PC, you may be interested in an Xbox Gamepass subscription so that you will have a vast catalog of games within the reach of a few clicks, such as Minecraft or Halo Infinite.

Subscriptions to Spotify, Audible, Netflix, Diney +, HBOmax… Depending on what you like, an annual subscription can be a huge detail and you will know that it will give you a try. More and more content is being dumped and created on these channels, so it is unlikely that you will not like something or do not want to give it a try.

A simple but functional tablet

The tablet market has only had two options for a long time: either the very expensive ones for professionals or the cheap ones for multimedia use. It is very tempting to use a tablet that does not reach sixty euros, but that will be a discomfort to use because they are not usually very powerful. If you go up a little more to one hundred or one hundred and twenty euros, there will be much more room for functional tablets, without reaching three hundred euros or more for the high-end.

Tablets can be very useful as a second screen from which to watch series, or be used to read comics or books. The fever for tablets has passed, but its use for quality multimedia content by offering a larger screen is still present. You do not need a high-end tablet, but one with a brand with a certain reputation and power so that by removing applications in the background and leaving only the essential ones, you can take the opportunity to watch series on public transport or while waiting for food in a restaurant.

Books on the impact and cultural background of video games

The world of video games is exciting, not only for playing them but also for understanding their cultural and social context. The Héroes de Papel publishing house has become a benchmark for works dedicated to hosting essays on numerous video games, and for example we have the following:

• «AD, an adventure told from within» by Juan José Muñoz Falcó
• "Zelda: Behind the Legend" by Salva Fernández
• "Final Fantasy I-II-III Legend" by Raphael Lucas
• «Yabai !: Great video games that stayed in Japan» by David Bosca Albors
• "The Legacy of the White Wolf" by Ramón Méndez
• «Indie Revolution: The cultural subversion of the video game» by Manu Delgado and Jonathan León
• "Ludonomicón: The cursed guide to the strangest video games" by Daniel Matías Caballero, Ricardo Martínez Cantudo and Carlos Ramírez Moreno
• "Batman: A Video Game Hero" by José L. Ortega
• "Geek Cooking: Simple Recipes for Geek Palates" by Gemma Ballesteros
• "Uncharted: The Weight of History" by Alberto Venegas Ramos
• «The Painful City» by Sergio Lifante
• «Get them all !: The Pokémon phenomenon: Origin and Evolution» by Pedro Silva
• "Bioshock and the soul of the United States" by Alberto Venegas Ramos
• «La Aldea Feliz: A Journey through Animal Crossing» by Palo Algaba
• «From Shadows and Beasts: The Journey of Team Ico» by Daniel Matías Caballero and Mariela González
• «Continue Play ?: History of Spanish arcade machines» by Jesús Relinque and Jose Manel Fernández
• «Yo, Shepard» by Andrés Ortiz Moyano
• «The Videogame through David Cage» by José Altozano
• «Final Round: The Street Fighter Legacy» by Joaquín Relaño Gómez
• «Portal or the science of the Videogame» by Eva Cid
• «Beyond Time» by Mariela González
• "Shemue's Odyssey" by Carlos Ramírez Moreno and Ramón Méndez
• "Genesis: Essential Guide to Spanish Eight-Bit Video Games" by Jesús Relinque and Jose Manel Fernández

If the person you're buying a gift for knows English, they might be interested in Jason Schreier's "Press Reset" and "Blood, Sweat, and Pixels" about what's going on in the world of professional game development. Unseen 64 has two books for sale, one about games that were never finished, and another about games that never got a worldwide release. If you look around, you'll find plenty of books on a variety of topics that will broaden their horizons.

Personal hygiene, that great forgotten

It seems silly, but no. A man wants to be able to take care of his image. Especially the hair and the beard, so a machine to cut the hair of the beard and outlining it or cutting the long hairs or the hairs of the nose is a success. What is a topical gift? Yes, but it is useful and it is always better to give something useful than something trying to be original.

A smartwatch is one of the best gifts for men this Christmas

Rearables are a very useful gift. If you plan to give an eloj as a gift, make it a smart one that there are already options like the RealmeBand or the Xiami MiBand that have quality and are quite accessible. Not only do they tell the time, but they track health and sleep. They are useful even if they are only going to use it to have notifications in silence and never hear the notification tone again because they will have the smartwatch on their arm.

A quiet device for remote work

Now that teleworking is normalizing, you may be interested in a stable, spill-resistant keyboard if you have a stable telecommuting job. There are silent keyboard and mouse packages on the market to make your long hours in front of the computer much more bearable by facilitating silence. It is true that the sound of the mechanical keyboard impresses and feels good, but when you are typing for many hours, the silence of a membrane keyboard and that it is easy to press helps a lot to pass the working day remotely.