Holiday gift guide for gamers

Best gaming gifts and gadgets to buy this holiday season

2010 was a bumper year for gaming. From January onwards, there has been an avalanche of great video games and gaming peripherals vying for gamers' dollars. In the following slideshow, we highlight some of the best products of the year for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Nintendo Wii, Sony PSP and Nintendo DS. If you're stumped on what to get your gaming buddy this Christmas, make sure it's something from this list. To read our in-depth review, click on the image for each product.

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Activision Blur

The realistic visuals and accurately modelled cars may lead you to believe the Blur is an action racing game in the Burnout mould, but this title from Bizarre Creations actually has more in common with Nintendo's iconic Mario Kart series. Relying heavily on power-up icons, it's a fast and enjoyable racer that also shares some genetic DNA with Call of Duty.

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  • 26th May, 2010
  • Ryan Rigney
  • Activision
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  • Online multiplayer is awesome, in-race goals are fresh and set the game apart from other racers, power-ups allow for strategic depth
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  • Single player is marred by the far too common checkpoint and destruction modes

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