Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere spend the holidays indoors, but you can only watch so many TikToks about cute cats and cooking hacks before the need for something a little more substantive kicks in. Choosing the right game or movie to gift is tough, though, especially if you don\u2019t have an exact read on what your friends and family like. And if you choose poorly, remember that you might also be on the hook to play or watch it with them.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s why, this year, we made it our mission to find gifts that appeal to people with diverse interests across a wide price range. If you know an aspiring Dungeon Master or a Wes Anderson devotee, the latest D&D starter set<\/a> and Criterion\u2019s lavish box set<\/a> are great options to consider. We also have plenty of video game recs \u2014 from GOTY contender Clair Obscur: Expedition 33<\/a> to the notoriously brutal Silksong<\/a> \u2014 along with a raft of suggestions when it comes to TVs, tabletop books, party-friendly board games, vinyl, and other pieces of hardware.<\/p>\n Photographer, photo editor: Amelia Holowaty Krales<\/p>\n Art director and designer: Cath Virginia<\/p>\n Creative director: Kristen Radtke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most of us in the Northern Hemisphere spend the holidays indoors, but you can only watch so many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[166,155910,172,74,148099],"class_list":{"0":"post-299430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-gadgets","9":"tag-gift-guides","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-verge-shopping"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}