Gifts for Gamers: Ideas for Real Players

Eight worlds, countless mushrooms consumed, dangerous turtle shells dodged – and then this: A little mushroom guy tells you at the end of the castl...

You know the feeling: fighting for hours, defeating Koopas, jumping over chasm after chasm - and then this little mushroom guy stands there and tel...

Do you miss the days of arcade halls and 8bit games? The Space Invaders color-changing glasses bring the charm of the old arcade classics into your...

In the Fallout wasteland, currency isn't gold—it's bottle caps, preferably Nuka-Cola ones. The fizzy drink with the bright red label was America's ...

Whether on Route 1 or in the office – a good trainer is always prepared. The Pokéball is the most iconic invention of the Pokémon world: small, pra...

In Super Mario, the best surprises hide behind those yellow question mark blocks – coins, power-ups, or extra lives. You never know what's inside u...

In 1991, every arcade had a sign with a single message: Hadouken. Street Fighter II wasn't just a game – it was a cultural phenomenon that tested f...

Indiana Jones showed us the way: In an emergency, a good refrigerator will save you from nuclear apocalypse. Whether that actually works is debatab...

How you treat your NPCs says more about you than about them. Yes, of course these often similar characters are just extras in the grand scheme of t...

Before dragons, dragonflower and power-hungry daedric lords, it all started with a floppy disk - and this moment in video game history is celebrate...

Playing Gothic is like coming home.At least that's what long-time players say when asked why this 20-year-old game is still so incredibly popular. ...

Vault-Tec hatte für jedes Problem der Nachkriegswelt ein Merkblatt und für jede Katastrophe ein Lächeln. Wer die Spielreihe Fallout kennt, kennt Va...

October 21st, 2015 – the date an entire generation has been waiting for. When Marty McFly hovered through Hill Valley on his pink hoverboard in Bac...

With the Pokémon Pokéball sandwich maker, your snack ends up where it belongs: neatly caught between two slices of toast. Shiny black on the outsid...

Four buttons that mean the world! No, we're not talking about WASD or XYAB, but about triangle, circle, cross and square - the buttons on a PlaySta...

The "Call of Duty" series has been one of the most popular first-person shooters since 2003. Exciting yet realistic scenarios allow us to immerse o...

Poor Desmond, he's never at peace! Immediately after the events of Assassin's Creed II, Brotherhood continues with the battle between Templars and ...

For nearly forty years, the hero in green has been setting out whenever a princess disappears or a demon king awakens, and hardly anyone asks wheth...

Nach zwei Stunden auf dem Sofa merkst du es zuerst an den Ellenbogen. Die Arme hängen in der Luft, die Schultern ziehen nach vorn, und der Endgegne...

Ezio Auditore da Firenze klettert in Assassin's Creed über die Dächer der italienischen Renaissance, um seine Familie zu rächen. Kapuze tief im Ges...

Bisasam, Glumanda und Schiggy. Drei Namen, bei denen jeder, der jemals einen Game Boy in der Hand hatte, sofort weiß, welche Entscheidung gemeint i...

1984 schrieb Alexei Paschitnow in Moskau ein Spiel, in dem sieben verschieden geformte Klötzchen von oben herabfallen und ordentlich gestapelt werd...

"Oomenacka!" - when you hear this call, you know: It's time for a little magic! With the Banjo Kazooie Mumbo Jumbo medallion, you not only have an ...

Whether you can really be proud of belonging to a mercenary group like the Blue Suns is questionable. In any case, it is a different kind of pride ...

1986. An old man stands in a cave, holds out a wooden sword and says what is perhaps the most famous sentence in video game history: "It's dangerou...

In the greatest betrayal in the history of mankind, nine Space Marine Legions turned against the Emperor of Humanity and followed the warlord Horus...

The residents of Minecraft cover an astonishing range. A wolf turns into the most loyal companion you have ever had for the price of a few bones, a...

Sooner or later every desk looks the same: one cable disappears behind the monitor, the next one lies across the keyboard, the controller slides of...

You've spent hours fighting your way to the End, blasting obsidian towers and finally defeating the Ender Dragon. This epic endgame experience dese...

You run through level after level, jump over chasms, dodge turtles - and then, just before you give up, it glows: the green mushroom. A 1-UP. An ex...

If your breakfast deserves a special treat that doesn't sound like "standard toast", this gadget is practically a little kitchen companion from Kan...

In Hyrule, they lurk everywhere: Bokoblins – the bony, red-eyed minions of Ganondorf, who hide behind every rock and in every ruin. Normally they g...

Red or Blue? Since the first Pokémon games on the Game Boy, the choice of starter Pokémon has divided friendships and schoolyards. Bulbasaur fans, ...

"I am the one who knocks" - one of the most iconic sentences in TV history. But what if the most famous plumber in the video game world had decided...

Some Minecraft mobs are just too iconic to escape - and the skeleton is definitely one of them! With the Minecraft TUBBZ skeleton figure, the arrow...

Every year the same ritual: pull the light chain out of the basement, untangle it, plug it in, and half the bulbs don't light up. This year, howeve...