No matter what holiday you celebrate this time of year, one thing is generally guaranteed; the presence of presents! The team here has bounced things back and forth and we've gone all across the gaming gamut. Some of us can't wait to get our hands on Rock Band or one of those ever-elusive Wiis; others of us are just hoping for something as simple as time cards for our favorite MMOs. I know my wish list involves gift cards so I can pick up a nice powerful video card for some of the games coming down the pipes. (Just no CompUSA, kthx.)
For this morning, we thought it would be fun to let you in on the "oooh, I wish" trading-notes fun we've had off and on comparing ideas for some of the holiday gift guides we've put out/are working on. What kind of cool gaming stuff are you hoping to land this year? The hot WoW item this year seems to be the Figureprints statues, but as they're limited availability, who knows who is going to get one of those. If you can't score that, what's your fallback must-have gift? Elf plushies? TCG decks for your favorite MMO?
And speaking of awesome presents; WoW Insider will be giving away one of those sweet World of Warcraft Dell laptops soon, so be on the lookout for the post with details here giving you the scoop!
Reader Comments (4)
Posted: Dec 12th 2007 9:31AM (Unverified) said
While not a gift, per se, Q1 will see the first New Computer From The Ground Up for myself and a couple other folks, primarily to have the horsepower to play Supreme Commander... the fact that such a system will make World of Warcraft look ever-so-shiny is merely a pleasing side-effect.
I feel like we've been kicked back to the turn of the century in the last couple of months, especially in the video card market - with compelling offerings from both ATI and nVidia at attractive prices, it's no longer a foregone conclusion at checkout time, with the only consideration being "Which heatsink has the coolest graphics?" Admittedly, Intel is stomping all over AMD in the CPU department, especially in the multi-core segment (making this the first time since 2000 that I'm looking at running a Pentium - back then, it was dual P3's).
But, yeah - gift certificates to electronic toystores have lost their "impersonal" stigma, and are the gift to give and get this year.
I feel like we've been kicked back to the turn of the century in the last couple of months, especially in the video card market - with compelling offerings from both ATI and nVidia at attractive prices, it's no longer a foregone conclusion at checkout time, with the only consideration being "Which heatsink has the coolest graphics?" Admittedly, Intel is stomping all over AMD in the CPU department, especially in the multi-core segment (making this the first time since 2000 that I'm looking at running a Pentium - back then, it was dual P3's).
But, yeah - gift certificates to electronic toystores have lost their "impersonal" stigma, and are the gift to give and get this year.
Posted: Dec 12th 2007 11:35AM (Unverified) said
I remember that magazine cover. I was eleven and wanted just about everything in the photo, the robot in particular.
Posted: Dec 12th 2007 12:34PM (Unverified) said
One additional tag you may want to append - "Winter-een-mas" (courtesy of Ctrl-Alt-Del and Ethan's deranged imagination therein....)
Posted: Dec 12th 2007 1:26PM Krystalle Voecks said
Wintereenmas is the last weekend in January, otherwise I most certainly would have. :)
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