Gamer gifts to buy this Black Friday or for Christmas

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Do you have doubts about what to buy for your friends or family who like video games? Here we have a very neat list of gifts for a gamer.

We are in the middle of the Black Friday and Cyber ​​Monday campaign, the Christmas gift shopping season… What things are good gifts for a friend, acquaintance or co-worker who is a gamer or who likes video games? Let's face it: giving a video game is impractical and not very personal, so you have to be original.

In this article we are going to list several types of gifts that you can give to a video game fan, although here we are going to abbreviate it as a gamer. And as a gift ... A guide to know what a gamer wants or may want and give them gifts accordingly.

How to know what gifts to give a gamer

Before it was very difficult to give gifts to a gamer. You had to know what console he had and his games, what he liked... You could subtly interview him, but he was very loud. Luckily, thanks to social networks you can gossip and look at his Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram profile to see what he is currently playing or what he wants.

Possibly you have profiles on Exophase or PSNProfiles and other websites that collect game achievements on Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Then there are Steam profiles that tell you everything in detail: if you have a game and how much you have played. You can do the same if you have him as a friend on the Nintendo Switch. The important thing about this step is to know in a subtle way what consoles you have, what games you like and what games you want, if we want to go through the basics of giving away a game. But we are going to take that information to apply it in the next steps.

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Be careful with the gamer phrases

This is another tip. And that is, be careful when giving gamer stuff with phrases like "gamer pride«. Usually these phrases tend to be very cynical and arrogant, appealing to a false sense of community and identity just for the sake of playing video games. It is true that playing video games makes you part of a community, but that feeling of belonging having to demonstrate gamer pride has passed.

What do we mean by that? Don't pick up things that have messages like "I have failed in life, but I am a gamer and I have two more» and derivatives. Besides being a very vague idea, some may even have toxic messages like saying that when you get married and have children you can no longer play. It is totally false in the first case, because you still have the freedom to play. And it depends on how you organize, the is an exaggeration that you can no longer play if you are a parent. Better focus on giving away things from games and series that he likes.

The Funko Pop, only if we are sure you like the Funko Pop

Giving a Funko Pop as a gift is very easy: they don't cost much, there are all the franchises there are and there are and it is very difficult that there is not something that that gamer friend and family member we are looking for some gifts likes. But here's a problem: it can be taken as an offense and a personal attack. We made a text about the Funko Pop that we would only give gifts to those we hate… Because you love the one you give a gift, right?

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Vault Boy Funko Pop

So, before giving a Funko Pop, we have to make sure that he really collects them as such, or he likes to collect things from his favorite franchise and does not mind being given Funko Pop. Beware, there are Funko figures outside of Pop series that really are awesome like Cuphead.

Figures other than Funko Pop

Giving a figure as a gift is a good detail when done well. And fear not, if you go outside of Funko you have many manufacturers of all kinds. Static vinyl figures, articulated... There are even series of figures such as Figma or Nendoroid that figure collectors and fans of the licenses they use really like, and they don't get so much hate. And in recent years they have become much more accessible, being sold on Amazon or large stores like FNAC.

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It's a little more expensive and hard to get right. But it will impact much more than the Funko Pop. As a tip, look for stores dedicated to anime and nerd culture, that although they tend to focus more on Japanese drawings and film culture, they may have ideal figures to give as gifts. And if you search well, they will be on sale because they want to take them off the shelves and make room.

Gamer clothing and accessories, if possible, personalized

Clothes are useful. Everyone wears clothes on a daily basis. That is why giving something useful and that a gamer likes at the same time is one of the most successful gifts you can make. Luckily in T-shirts you are covered because if you know something that he likes and you see something that can be on a T-shirt, you can go to a page like Your Customizable and order a personalized and unique t-shirt. It can be the official logo or artwork for a game, or a design you've commissioned from a designer or artist.

If that's too much for you, stores like Primark or H&M They begin to have a lot of clothing based on video games. In this way, we soon remember socks, shirts and underpants from Pokémon, from Super Mario Bros, from Mario Kart... If the catalog is very variable, and you also have to make sure of the size used by the person to whom you are going to give the gift. clothes, so be careful. We repeat: it is better to go to geek stores to see things in person, because they also sell t-shirts for gamers.

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A gamer cup, if it is practical and has space

Again, a very practical gift. The only drawback is know if the one who will receive our gift has space in the kitchen drawers. The easiest thing, and to make sure that it is useful, is to go back to Your Customizable and order a cup of what you like best.

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EYE! Here we are looking for a USEFUL gift. Many cups that we will see are commemorative or decorative, which although technically you can drink from it, we do not recommend it. We will recognize them by being well decorated and not being made of the same material as the usual coffee cups. The best way to identify them is to see if there is a notice on the box that you can drink from them. It is a warning if they say that they are not made for dishwashers and microwaves, because if they do, they are most likely only decorative.

Gamer wall decor

Again, knowing what the person who will receive your gift might like, you will have much of the work done. Initially you can buy adhesive vinyls to decorate your door or wall in the living room because they are easy to apply and leave little residue.

If we want to go a bit more stylish, and therefore expensive, there are the large plates of Displate. They are large metal sheets with exclusive designs that have the quality that they are put on the wall using magnets. If you know that there is something that he will like, you cannot go wrong, although you should make sure he has room on the wall to put it.

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Here we once again recommend Your Customizables, which offers to put the design you want on a canvas. Again, remember that you can use official art or custom designs that you know you have permission to use personally.

A gift voucher for a gamer tattoo

Now we will start talking about gift vouchers. In theory, Used well, they make the ideal gift.. In the worst case we are giving away money to a store because it paid for a balance that a person will not use. So you have to be careful.

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A discount voucher for a tattoo is a good gift: it lasts forever and is customizable to the consumer's taste. Although being a small detail it will not cover the entire price of the tattoo, but it is a help and a motivation to have it. If you know that you do not have an allergy to the idea of ​​wearing a tattoo, look at the tattoo studios close to where the person to whom you are going to gift the voucher lives.

A voucher to play on your console

Ask him without fear what console he has or what he usually plays on. Well great. It depends on the answer, what it tells you, you have the following options:

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Books about videogames and their cultural impact

Right now, the presence of essay or encyclopedic books on video games is spreading. If a decade ago at most we could find the book "1001 games to play before you die", now we have the Spanish publisher Paper Heroes with books on gamer culture that are ideal gifts. In addition to translating foreign works, they have the following list of books edited by Spanish authors who have researched and collected data, interviews, and statements to help better understand the video games we love so much.

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