Giving gifts to curry favor and bond with companions in games, especially RPGs, isn’t anything new, and it’s a mechanic that I never seem to fully understand. I always end up giving the wrong gifts to the wrong people until, at some point, I cave to finding a guide so that I can get everything…
Tag: Listmas 2023
Listmas 2023: With Great Cover Art, the Package Makes Perfect
There’s no doubt that one of the best things about gift giving, at Christmas or any time, is the element of surprise. You take a perfect gift and conceal its awesomeness behind pretty paper. Then the big moment comes where the receiver tears open that paper to reveal the big surprise and, you hope, be…
Listmas 2023: Awesome Cover Art to Deck Out the Halls With
Growing up, one of the best parts of getting at new game was pouring over the cover art on the trip home. It was like a little window into the experience you were about to undertake and helped your imagination to run wild with the possibilities. That particular experience has more or less gone away…
Listmas 2023: Gaming Goodies for BioWare Buffs
It goes without saying that I enjoy BioWare’s games. True that I’ve not played each and every game the studio has offered since its inception, but I can say that I love their brand of gaming. Deeply narrative, infused with choice, and set in imaginative worlds, BioWare has hit some lasting homeruns with the likes…
Listmas 2023: Great Halo Gifts for the Family’s Master Chief Maniac
For some game fans, it realy is all about the game. The game is what they enjoy and they really couldn’t care less about anything else surrounding it. For many other our there though, finding and acquiring cool merch for your favorite franchise is a big part of the fun. These days I belong to…
Listmas 2023: Games for Folks who Hanker for History
Considering that a large part of my life has revolved around preserving history, one might think that my game habits would lean in that direction. As it goes, the opposite is more true than less. But, just because my own library and subsequent recommendations from it aren’t heavy history hitters content-wise, it doesn’t mean that…
Listmas 2023: Gaming Gifts for Sci-Fi Nerds
As Cary pointed out in our official kick-off to the season, Listmas time is here again already! It doesn’t matter how old you get, the fact that December can just one day arrive is always just such a wild phenomenon, I think. Anyway, we are indeed carrying on the Listmas tradition in this year of…
Listmas 2023: Listing Lists about Giving Gifts
Ten years ago, we celebrated our very first Listmas. At the time, we were United We Game, and Listmas – the Christmastime blogging celebration that’s all about making lists (and checking them twice!) – was a small effort that was meant to serve as lighter writing/reading fare over Christmas week. A decade and a name…
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