Gifts for gamers

Few villains from the golden age of point and click adventures have risen to such prominence as the megalomaniac, Purple Tentacle! After the rather...

Imagine waking up one day and not being in your bed but in a clinical white room that's under constant surveillance by cameras... as if you've unwi...

After many fans of Blizzard and the "World of Warcraft" expansion "Battle for Azeroth" were more than disappointed, a lot has now been made good wi...

This crossover image shows a popular vampire hunting a high-school girl, two brothers who are regularly haunted by the supernatural, a grim and hea...

Calling The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt a "good" game would probably be the understatement of the century. After all, the third instalment of the video-ga...

Sure, nobody likes jokes that take forever to be explained – somewhere along the way, all the humour seems to get lost! But at times, we can't get ...

Did you know?After launching it in 1978, the fixed shooter Space Invaders became so popular in Japan that after a short while, the whole country ra...

The weighted Companion Cube has a special place in the heart of everyone who has ever played the video game Portal. This sweet, faithful, unassumin...

Do you have friends who make fun of you when you tell them that you were playing World of Warcraft the whole week? By wearing this t-shirt, you can...

Composed of the triangles of courage, wisdom and strength, the "Triforce" is the most powerful artefact in all of Hyrule, as its divine nature enab...

The School of the Wolf is one of the most important schools for witchers. Geralt of Rivia was also trained here. So it's no wonder that he always c...

All monster hunters and role-playing game fans know: “The Witcher 3 - The Wild Hunt” is a first-class computer game with many surprising twists in ...

The Playstation has been around for about 30 years now. This means that everyone who has grown up with it is now an adult. Don't believe it? Well, ...

Tetris is such a popular game that it can be played on all kinds of consoles and even on calculators and buildings. So it's time to integrate the f...

Whether one can really be proud of belonging to a mercenary group like the Blue Suns is questionable. It is in any case a different kind of pride t...

Without communication with others, gaming can be a pretty lonely pastime. That’s why the headset is one of the most important pieces of equipment w...

Letting high-explosive materials near you doesn’t sound too tempting, does it! But don’t worry – this bomb is quite harmless :). The Bomberman Soft...

In the Mortal Kombat universe, no fight is won until the opponent has been brutally slaughtered. The game was banned for a long time, among other t...

The cake is a lie – that’s the bitter realisation waiting for you at the end of a well-known teleportation video-game series. Fittingly, this messa...

Have you ever wondered why the pocket monsters from Pokémon, Digimon and similar series participate in dangerous arena battles? If the thought that...

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Everyday life can sometimes be so exhausting and monotonous that even the simplest activities, such as regular showering, become an insurmountable ...

The HEV suit (Hazardous Environment Suit) plays a very special role in one of the most legendary first-person shooters: without it, Gordon Freeman,...

What does a hero truly need? A magic sword, a mithril shirt and magical powers? Well, those and a proper jacket, of course. After all, what good is...

To be a successful Pokémon trainer, you need a lot of things - but above all Pokémon. Unfortunately, they don't seem to exist in our reality. Or ha...

In June 2023, the long-awaited fourth part of the Diablo series was released. Once again, it's all about the battle between good and evil, heaven a...

If you ask yourself why Pokémon is so popular as a game, you'll probably come up with an ancient human instinct pretty quickly: hunting and gatheri...

It is no wonder that the T-Rex in the 1993 film "Jurassic Park" is in a bad mood… After all, he was offline for quite a while. At some point you ju...

A merry feast and a bloody battle! The Viking-themed Assassin’s Creed: Valhalla could not have begun any better. After all, these tough Scandinavia...

Collectible figures are nice to have, but sometimes they miss a certain Je ne sais quoi. And what might that be, you ask? Well, yellow rubber and a...

"Two chracters meet in a tavern, one was a Tank, and the other didn't do damage either." Okay, this joke is not great (okay, actual...

In almost every role playing game, the tasks of each and every party member are set in stone: The Healer is healing, the Rogue is sneaking around a...

Even though the extremely popular app for catching monsters on the Go has brought millions of people back into the world of the small, cuddly monst...

There're those tricky situations when you have to ask yourself what would one of your heroes do? Only, heroes can be a bit boring and predicta...

When it comes to charms, we nerds usually think of powerful spells in pen-and-paper games, the counterpart to the Strange Quark or simply a certain...