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Another holiday season is upon us, and you have a chance to show your loved ones how much you care by spending money on them. You may think you have it easy if you’re buying things for the gamers in your life, but how can you be sure they don't already own the game you're looking to get them? Also, don’t be predictable in your gifts, just handing them a copy of Skyrim with a hurried “Merry Whatever.” Think outside the box! To help you we've collected a list of things gamers would love to have that aren’t the hottest games of the year. And if you are looking for the best games to buy for someone here's a helpful video. And if you need more gift ideas, many of the items on last year's list are still available...

We talk about comics, Mario Kart, Infinity Blade 2, and more...

Skyrim is a big place, so it’s easy to feel lonely when you first set off on your adventure. Fear not though, for there are a handful of factions and guilds ready to take you in and make you feel loved - provided you meet certain requirements. We’ve gathered the details on all the joinable factions in the game including locations, barriers to entry, benefits, and rewards: everything you need to know before you dedicate hours to a specific direction. After all, you don’t want to waste time playing a video game, do you? 

Welcome to PC Gamer's very first Three-Way! (There's a first for everything, right?) In this recurring segment, three editors tackle the same section of a game with three distinct styles. In our first edition, Editor-in-Chief Logan Decker, Senior Editor Evan Lahti, and now-former reviews editor Dan Stapleton orchestrated Crysis 2 bloodbaths with their own unique strategies...

It’s not easy being a horse, especially a horse at GamesRadar. As Senior Wildlife Editor and the only quadruped on staff at this sad publication, you’d think I’d be the first writer this group would turn to for the premier of this weekly column. It’s called “High Horse” for goodness’ sake! To wait this long for a High Horse column written by an actual horse is an insult to readers. But most importantly, it’s an insult to me. Maybe I should start my own GamesRadar column called “Opinions by Fat and Lazy Human Gamers” and not invite any of my non-horse co-workers to participate. That would show them. But I digress…


One of the coolest additions to the Elder Scrolls games is the inclusion of Dragons. Since these flying, death dealing tanks are both hostile and all over the place you’ll get plenty of chances to sharpen your blades on their scales. What starts out as rare encounters that occur in specific locations, these fights will eventually become entirely random. Upon arriving in a town, the roar of a dragon will rend the air and shake the buildings, and once that beast notices you, the battle is on...

December may offer the true climax of the holiday season, but in terms of new game releases, it's very much the calm after the storm. Most of the giant blockbusters of the season made their way out between September and November, but the final month of 2011 isn't barren by any means: big releases like Mario Kart 7 and Star Wars: The Old Republic lead the pack, while system-specific versions of some notable recent titles also find their way to store shelves. But if you read this over and don't see anything on the horizon that works you into a tizzy, surely November's overstuffed lineup holds a few leftover options to consider...

The radio is abuzz with playoff predictions, and the cover of the latest sports magazine is emblazoned with burning questions: which undefeated team will win the championship, and who will be the top pick in the upcoming draft? Rival coaches are verbally assaulting each other with incendiary language so obscene it’s utterly unprintable (then hugging it out immediately afterwards), superstar players are traded every day, and franchises are relocating themselves mid-season. All the while, the league Security Council surveys the madness with glee...

SoulCalibur V is on the horizon. Are we excited? Course we are. It looks amazing, faster than ever and... well, it's SoulCalibur. But the main reason we still get excited about the series is because of 1999's original Soul Calibur, which single-handedly revolutionised the one-on-one fighting genre when it helped launch Dreamcast. This isn't an article about that machine, much as I love to talk about it. No, it's a tale of souls and swords, eternally retold. Welcome back to the stage of history…

2011 was a crazy busy year for videogames, and November was easily the craziest busiest month of that year. Now that we’ve survived the onslaught of quantity, it’s time to pick the winner in quality. Which game – from the so very many to choose between – is our absolute favorite? Which do we recommend above all the others? Find out, and tell us what you would have picked, inside…