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Geek Holiday Gift Guide 2018
Can’t afford to gift your favorite gamer a brand new system, but still want to find the perfect gift without having to send a gift card? Here is a list of great gift options at reasonable prices for the nerd or geek in your life (even if it’s yourself).
12. “Its Dangerous to go Alone” Tee
Despite the item description, this tee would make any Zelda fan happy regardless of gender. The phrase stems from the first Zelda game, but is still well known today.
Price: $9.99 – $20.99
Available: Amazon
11. Solar Orbit Necklace
This beautiful necklace displays the sun, our moon, the nine planets of our universe (yes, even Pluto), and the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. They are displayed on 3 strands. The 3″ extender has a star on the end to represent a comet. Most importantly, each planet is made from semi-precious stones.
Price: $17.99 (Original) or $59.99 (Sterling Silver)
Available: ThinkGeek
10. Dr. Who Tardis Scarf
Dr. Who is still “in” this year, and so is this infinity scarf. The Dr. Who fan in your life will adore how easy it is to match this with their outfits. It can be wrapped once or twice depending on the desired length. Most importantly the double layering results in no seams being shown. In short, you can’t go wrong!
Price: $18.61
Available: Etsy
9. Game Boy Heat Changing Mug
Genuinely made by the geniuses at Nintendo, this mug is designed to look like an original Game Boy. When the mug is cold the Game Boy appears “off”, but after that fill it with your hot drink and watch the Game Boy turn on and be ready to play Super Mario!
Price: $17.99
Available:
https://www.merchoid.com/product/nintendo-game-boy-heat-changing-mug/
8. Feisty Pets: Dragon
Everyone loves dragons. These creatures are loved by more than just the nerd and geek communities, especially when they’re this cute. That is until you squeeze its head, which turns the dragon into a ferocious beast.
Price: $19.99
Available: GameStop
7. Harry Potter Cauldron Mug & Spoon
Young Harry Potter has been enchanting the world for years now, with no end in sight. No matter which house you were sorted into, this mug is perfect for making all of your potions in. Just make sure they’re less than 16 oz.
Price: $21.99
Available: Amazon
6. 8Bit Retro Cube Speaker
This NES inspired speaker features a giant DPAD on the top. Despite its old-school inspiration, the speaker is Bluetooth compatible and has an 8-hour battery life.
Price: $29.99
Available: Amazon
5. Monopoly Game: Marvel Deadpool Edition
With all the new versions of Monopoly coming out, it’s no surprise there is now one for Deadpool fans. Prepare for the usual game play with some twists. Buy properties with Deadpool’s allies, some are Deadpools from alternate universes, and one is just Deadpool in a maid outfit.
Price: $22.99
Available: GameStop
4. Steampunk Little Lazies
These little monsters are looking for a new home. You never know which little monster you will get, as each one is custom made. Every little monster that is adopted comes with “adoption papers” including the individual likes and dislikes of your new monster.
Price: $25.00 (Random) or $29.00 (Choose your Color)
Available: Etsy
3. Funko Pop! Holiday Groot
Part of the Marvel Holiday Pop set, this Groot bobble is decorated with lights and bobbles for the holiday season. He is ready to party and dance from his flower pot.
Price: 18.99
Available: Walmart
2. Sally’s Potions Mini Fragrance Set
I’m sure you remember which three potions Sally added to the professor’s soup to slip out of the house. Now you can have your own bottles of Worm’s Wort, Frog’s Breath, and Deadly Night Shade. Despite also being functional perfume, they will look like a great movie prop next to your other Nightmare Before Christmas items.
Price: $16.90
Available: BoxLunch
1. Pikachu Animated Plush
I choose you, Pikachu! Another pet looking to be adopted this season is your own Pikachu. This officially-licensed Pokémon merchandise features three different modes: “demo” (Pikachu will only say phrases when you press his belly), “on” (Pikachu will occasionally say phrases on his own), and “off.” In addition to its ten phrases, Pikachu’s cheeks also light up and his ears move.
Price: $39.99
Available: ThinkGeek
As Assassin’s Creed Shadows is about to sneak up on people in November, Ubisoft says that the time between developing games needs to be longer to find the “right balance.” Shadows has been in development for four years, longer than any other game in the series up to this point. That includes the huge open-world epics Assassin’s Creed Odyssey and Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
Shadows lead producer Karl Onnée (thanks, GamesIndustry.biz) says that the latest AC game took 25% longer to make than Valhalla. He says this is necessary to keep the quality of the series that it is known for: “It’s always a balance between time and costs, but the more time you have, the more you can iterate.” You can speed up a project by adding more people to it, but that doesn’t give you more time to make changes.
Onnée says this has as much to do with immersion and aesthetics as it does with fixing bugs and smoothing out pixels. This is because the development team needs time to learn about each new historical setting: “We are trying to make a game that is as real as possible.” We’re proud of it, and the process took a long time. In feudal Japan, building a house is very different from building a house in France or England in the Middle Ages. As an artist, you need to learn where to put things in a feudal Japanese home. For example, food might not belong there. Get all the information you need and learn it. That process takes a long time.”
You’ll have to wait a little longer for Ubisoft to work on each game. Are you okay with that? In what part of Shadows are you now? Is it interesting to you? Leave a comment below and let us know.
You can now pre-order Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP, a remaster that Dragami Games and Capcom both created. You can now pre-order the PS5 game on the PS Store for $44.99 or £39.99. If you have PS Plus, you can get an extra 10% off the price.
The company put out a new trailer with about three minutes of gameplay to mark the start of the pre-order period. Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP is a remaster of Grasshopper Manufacture’s crazy action game from 2012. You play as Juliet, a high school student who fights off waves of zombies.
The remaster adds RePOP mode, an alternative mode that swaps out the blood and gore for fun visual effects. It also adds a bunch of other features and improvements that make the game better overall. You can expect the graphics and sound to be better as well.
The game will now come out on September 12, 2024, instead of September 12, 2024. Are you excited to get back to this? Please cheer us on in the section below.
Is there really anyone who is following the story of Call of Duty’s zombie mode? We’ve known about the story in a vague way for a while, but we couldn’t tell you anything about it. It looks like the “Dark Aether” story will continue in Black Ops 6, but we don’t really know what that means.
For those of you who care, here is the official blurb with some background: “Requiem, led by the CIA, finally closed the last-dimensional portal, sending its inhabitants back to the nightmare world known as the Dark Aether, after two years of fighting zombie outbreaks around the world during the Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War timeline.”
Wait, there’s more! “Agent Samantha Maxis gave her life to seal this weird dimension from the inside out.” Even worse things were to come: senior staff members of Requiem were arrested without a reason by the Project Director, who turned out to be Edward Richtofen.
Black Ops 6 will take place about five years later, and it looks like it will show more about Richtofen’s goals and motivations. The most important thing is that you will probably be shooting an unimaginable number of zombies in the head. This week, on August 8, there will be a full reveal of the gameplay, so keep an eye out for that.
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