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Valentine’s Day Gifts for The Gamer in Your Life

Matthew Sims — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:36:45 +0000

Valentine’s Day is such a hard holiday to shop for. You can either go for the old reliable gifts of candy and flowers to seem incredibly boring, or go out on a limb and buy something different, but there’s no guarantee your significant other will like it. I’m here to help you friend, provided the one you love is a gamer. If not, then why did you click on this list at all? Join me as we go on a journey of pure gaming awesomeness.

N7 Hoodie (Mass Effect)

Anyone who has played Mass Effect will enjoy this tribute to Commander Shepard’s trademark armor. Staying true to the customization available to the armor in Mass Effect 2, there are even a few different color available. Even better, it’s available for the ladies as well. Bioware sure knows how to romance the ladies.

Assassin’s Creed Hoodie/Scarf

Mass Effect not your game? Well then how about this Assassin’s Creed hoodie and scarf combo? Sneak around your loved one and surprise them with this awesomely dangerous looking hoodie. Just don’t go jumping off your roof into bales of hay . . . you’ll hurt yourself.

Someone was nice enough to get one for RipTen’s own Dani Cantrell . . . doesn’t she just look intimidating?

Yes . . . She Does.

Video Game Cartridge Hard Drives

Sometimes a flash drive isn’t enough storage and people need to have an external hard drive handy. If you really love that gamer in your life, you won’t let them walk around with just any old external device, you’ll pick them up a hard drive put right into their favorite game. Etsy member 8bitmemory has managed to put these devices into NES and SNES cartridges. These are incredibly awesome, just be prepared to pay a bit more for all the hard work.

Chocolate Video Game Controllers

If you’re gonna go all traditional, you might as well put a spin on it. Everyone likes chocolate, and this thing is 100% edible. The only problem is that it looks so cool you might want to save it for yourself.

8-bit Flower Bouquet

In keeping with the traditional theme, why would you get the same flowers that everyone gets? Geek it up a bit, 8 bits in fact,Â with the 8-bit flower bouquet from Thinkgeek. The digitized, 3-D arrangement contains some of the most famous flowers in video game history. Listen guys, when your girl gets flowers you want her to think of gaming goodness, and since they never go bad she can keep them around as a constant reminder of how awesome you are.

Angry Birds Plushies!

Who doesn’t love Angry Birds? That’s right – everyone loves angry birds! Well now you can show your love for the birds (and your significant other) and hatred for those snarky pigs with these real life adorable plush toys! Plus chicks love stuffed animals. Why get a big stuff bear when you can get a big stuff bird instead?

Droid plush

If Angry Birds are not your thing but you still love to game on your mobile phone, how about this adorable Droid Plush? He’s cute and will get better service than your iPhone plush any day of the week.

Penny Arcade Books 1-6 Bundle

Anyone in love with video games and geek culture in general is probably a fan of Penny Arcade and doesn’t even know it yet. This bundle of the 6 volumes of the astoundingly popular webcomic discusses everything from extensive software patches to a mythical beast known as the dickwolf with a humor unmatched by anyone else in the medium. Don’t get your lover a book, get them a comic and a damn good one at that.

Video Game Lingerie

There’s no wrong choice here fellas (and ladies,) but this is a pretty good bet that you’ll catch attention with this. It’s somewhere between lingerie and a costume, but it is all amazing. The choices for video game lingerie is pretty slim, but this is a bright spot in an otherwise barren market. This is the sort of outfit that makes people make a few Pac Juniors of their own.

Splatterhouse Shoes

Listen here girls, your guy probably doesn’t like sweet things. In fact, there’s a good chance he is more swayed by some a fountain of spewing blood. Barring that you have a disgusting blood fountain, these will probably be the best way to get him to confess his undying love for you…and these shoes.

Hopefully you’ll find it a little bit easier to shop for that gamer in your life. If these items should fail to impress, then you could always preorder them the next big game or console. They’ll love you forever if you preorder an NGP or 3DS, guaranteed.

Get a 250GB Xbox 360 Hard Drive for $74

Bryce Wilson — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:05:29 +0000

Lets face it, the Xbox 360 storage units aren’t cheap. When you think that you can pick up a 1TB (1,000GB) SATA drive for your home computer and it’ll only set you back $60, $150 seems quite steep for 250GB.

Well luckily one online vendor is in the Christmas spirit and as such they’re offering 250GB Xbox 360 Hard Drives for only $74, and that’s shipping included! Catch Of The Day, and online deals website is offering this awesome bargain, and you’d be stupid not to pick it up!

Click here to order yours, and to reduce the price to $74 enter the coupon “xboxmax” at check-out.

[Thanks for the tip off Ashleigh!]

New Xbox Experience Loads Games 10-15 Seconds Faster via Hard Drive, Worth the Space?

Chad Lakkis — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:37:38 +0000

Stephen Totilo over at the MTV Multiplayer blog decided to spend a portion of his Halloween holiday by treating himself to the “New Xbox Experience”.

Microsoft claims that the NXE will have your Xbox 360 games loading faster than ever before, so Stephen popped in a few titles, hit record, and published the split screen results.

Per his tests, load time was cut by approximately 10 to 15 seconds across the titles he tested (Gears of War, Fable II, and GTA IV). Installs took around 11 minutes and ate up about 7 gigs of hard drive space each.

If you do the math (it’s a slow news day so I did), you’ll have to boot a game 45-70 times just to make up the lost time spent installing it in the first place. Assuming you play a game twice a day, you won’t see a return on your time investment for three to five weeks.

So, is the upfront install time and hard drive space worth it in the end? I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts below.

Source: MTV Multiplayer

Only “Geeks and Otaku” Want More Wii Storage

John Kershaw — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 19:58:26 +0000

Nintendo of Europe marketing director Laurent Fischer has been quoted by Edge magazine saying that only “geeks and otaku” have a problem with the Wii’s 512MB of internal storage space.

The Wii is the only console of this generation to not even have the option of a hard drive, instead coming with a mere 512MB of internal space available. An additional 2GB can be added via an SD card, but this still falls far short of even the smallest console hard drive.

Now, I’m not normally somebody who tells people how to do their jobs, but I might suggest to Mr. Fischer that this is probably not a smart thing to say.

Not least of all because these Geeks and Otaku, the ones filling up their Wii’s memory, are most likely doing so by purchasing things like WiiWare games and Virtual Console titles from your company.

If you are one of these “geeks” who has filled up your memory and are annoyed that Nintendo doesn’t seem care about you, don’t worry. Ripten are here to give you an affordable and practical solution.

Using the advanced scientific method of “sticking it to the side”, you too can experience the joys of full hard drive support with your Wii.

Source: Wired