17 Best Gifts for PC Gamers (2025): Headsets, Desks, Monitors

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• A Worthwhile Controller

  

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  Xbox/Microsoft

  Elite Wireless Controller Series 2

  Some games are amended with a controller, but they tin travel with disadvantages versus a keyboard and mouse. That's wherever highly customizable controllers similar the Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 tin help. It lets you tweak the absorption of its power sticks, swap retired paddles and D-pads, and adjacent adhd other rear buttons to customize your game. This is not the aforesaid controller that comes with the Xbox but an upgraded version.

  For much recommendations, work our Best Game Controllers guide.

• Unlimited (Battery) Power

  

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  HP

  HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless

  This headset earned the incredibly uncommon 10 retired of 10 successful our reappraisal acknowledgment to its unreal 300-hour artillery life. We enactment it to the trial and recovered that aft 2 consecutive weeks of continuous use, it inactive hadn't died. If that wasn't enough, it has fantabulous sound, large wireless range, and is comfy to deterioration for hours. We earnestly can't find thing to kick astir here.

• A Gaming Chair

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    Courtesy of Razer

  No 1 needs a gaming chair. I'd counsel you to look astatine my Best Office Chairs guide to find a bully seat. But immoderate folks really privation the gaming seat aesthetic, and if that's what your giftee is after, past Razer's Iskur V2 (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is the champion option. It's comfy, has wide shoulders to accommodate radical of varying sizes, and it's rather adjustable with coagulated lumbar support. The accustomed issues with gaming chairs are here, similar however it doesn't negociate assemblage vigor each that good and the spot extent isn't adjustable. Still, this is the seat I'd prime if your giftee wants to emulate the aesthetic of their favourite Twitch streamer. —Julian Chokkattu

• A Curved Gaming Monitor

  

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  LG

  Ultragear 34GS95QE Curved OLED Gaming Monitor

  When I accidental this gaming show is curved, I mean it. At 800R, the crook connected this LG Ultragear show is much stark than astir different ultrawide monitors, and I consciousness the difference. The OLED sheet provides affluent colors and up to a 240-Hz refresh rate for ace creaseless gameplay, but the extended curvature makes the acold sides of the show envelop my peripheral imaginativeness a batch better. If your giftee spends a batch of clip astatine their desk, immersed successful their games, this mightiness beryllium capable to marque them go afloat Tron.

• Introduce Couch Gaming

  

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  Valve's archetypal effort astatine a portable handheld had immoderate large bugs erstwhile it archetypal launched, but astatine this point, the Steam Deck OLED (7/10, WIRED Review) is my go-to. It has a amended screen, longer artillery life, and each the benefits of astir 2 years of bug fixes. The immense bulk of games connected the Steam Deck enactment well. Even erstwhile the interface tin beryllium wonky, determination are plentifulness of tools to woody with it easily—especially compared to other gaming handhelds.

  It's specified a seamless acquisition that I person played almost 200 hours of Hades II connected it, and that's a crippled that's technically lone successful aboriginal access. At this point, I mightiness play it adjacent much than my Switch. The caller exemplary besides means the archetypal is cheaper and it's incredibly casual to upgrade, truthful you tin get 1 for your giftee for cheaper than ever.

• A Desk Light

  

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  I person been utilizing BenQ's ScreenBar lights for years and they are fantastic. It fundamentally hangs disconnected the apical of a monitor, illuminating the keyboard and desktop. You tin space it conscionable close truthful it doesn't formed airy onto your show screen. The ScreenBar Pro is the company's latest mentation and it has a question sensor, truthful your giftee tin person their setup automatically airy up erstwhile they beryllium down. There are interaction controls to set the colour somesthesia and brightness, with a toggle for car brightness. BenQ besides has a mount to affix a webcam connected apical truthful the camera won't person to beryllium disconnected to the side. This is simply a must-have table accessory for immoderate gamer. —Julian Chokkattu

• A Hall Effect Keyboard

  

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  Keychron

  K2 HE Wireless Magnetic Switch Custom Keyboard

  Hall Effect keyboards are benignant of the caller frontier successful the satellite of keyboards. These person magnetic switches arsenic opposed to mechanical switches, and that means gamers person much power implicit erstwhile the power actuates. They're besides much reliable and responsive. We reviewed Keychron's archetypal HE keyboard, the Keychron Q1 HE, earlier this twelvemonth and liked it a batch (9/10, WIRED Recommends) but the newer Keychron K2 HE is adjacent nicer with its wood accents. It's been moving perfectly for maine the past fewer months, feels large to benignant on, and the wireless connectivity has been reliable (it tin beryllium connected via Bluetooth oregon a 2.4-GHz dongle). —Julian Chokkattu

• Technicolor Audio

  

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  SteelSeries makes some of our favourite gaming headsets, and the company's desktop speakers person lived up to the company's reputation. The Arena 7 speakers (8/10, WIRED Recommends) supply rich, afloat dependable and thunderous bass acknowledgment to its monolithic subwoofer. The 2 main speakers besides travel with RGB LEDs that integrate with the remainder of SteelSeries' peripherals to sync up with your giftee's conflict station's lighting scheme.

  Read our Best Computer Speakers guide for different options.

• Access to All the Games

  

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  3 Months of Microsoft Game Pass for PC

  Xbox’s Game Pass is still 1 of the champion deals successful gaming. For $10 to $20 a month, you tin play a rotating roster of hundreds of really good PC games—no Xbox required. That includes titles similar Halo Infinite, Deathloop, and Starfield. Not each tiers travel with each crippled anymore though. The cheapest tier, Game Pass Core for consoles has a tiny postulation of astir 25 games, portion Game Pass Standard ($15/mo) and Game Pass PC ($12/mo) person a wider postulation of games for their respective platforms.

  Notably, it utilized to beryllium the lawsuit that immoderate first-party games similar Starfield would get connected Game Pass time one, but present this lone applies to Game Pass PC and Game Pass Ultimate. If your giftee isn't connected 1 of those tiers, they'll person to hold astir a twelvemonth to entree caller AAA titles. Game Pass Ultimate besides gives you entree to Xbox Cloud Gaming which lets you watercourse games from the cloud, truthful you don't adjacent request to instal them locally to effort them out.

• A Glowing USB Mic

  

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  The HyperX Quadcast 2 S improves connected its predecessor, the USB mic astir each Twitch streamer seemed to own, successful each way. It has adjacent much of its trademark vibrant LEDs, allowing for analyzable patterns and designs that look large if you watercourse online. Audio signaling has been upgraded to 32-bit and 192 KHz which is useful if you program to edit your audio later, and its caller daze equine plan makes it casual to propulsion it from its basal and usage it elsewhere. If your acquisition recipient plans to beryllium connected camera portion playing games for an assemblage (or conscionable likes accessories that glow), this is 1 of the best USB mics you tin get.

• For Button Mashers

  

  Corsair

  Scimitar Elite Wireless

  I waited for, rather literally, implicit a decennary for Logitech to marque a wireless mentation of the G600 MMO rodent I emotion truthful much. But Corsair bushed Logitech to it. The Scimitar Elite Wireless (9/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a comfortable, almighty wireless rodent that packs an array of 12 buttons connected the broadside for casual thumb access. It's designed for massively multiplayer online games (MMO) oregon fast-paced shooters, wherever having speedy and casual entree to definite abilities tin beryllium life-saving, but I'm besides a large believer successful using them for work too.

• For MMO Die-Hards

  

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  This isn't a mouse! It's a keypad. It's besides 1 of those “ask earlier you buy” gifts, but for radical who play MMOs similar World of Warcraft oregon different games that person a lot of spells and abilities, a keypad similar the Razer Tartarus V2 tin beryllium a godsend. This instrumentality gives you an array of 19 programmable keys, positive thumb buttons, a directional stick, and a scroll wheel—all customizable—so you tin perfectly tailor your crippled to your hand's comfort.

• Full Battlestation Control

  

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  The Elgato Stream Deck+ feels a spot similar having a portion of a abstraction shuttle connected your desk. It packs 8 full-color LCD buttons that tin beryllium customized with macros and shortcuts to easy motorboat apps, mute a mic, oregon tally scripts with a azygous press. A second, wider colour touchscreen provides a heads-up show for antithetic strategy stats and, paired with the 4 salient dials on the bottom, it's a useful instrumentality for thing from moving dependable to video editing. It's designed to beryllium utile for streamers, who request to bash a batch of analyzable method tasks portion broadcasting, but it's adjuvant for anyone who wants to grounds gameplay, set euphony oregon chats portion they're playing, oregon tweak their setup to their nonstop preferences.

• Turn Your Spacebar Into a Snack Bar

  

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  Hot trend: Trading retired 1 cardinal successful a mechanical keyboard for a ace cute keycap. Switch retired the flight fastener for a tiny Poké Ball oregon the F3 for a pawprint. They tin capable the fig barroom with ducks, due to the fact that honestly, wherefore not? Or they tin marque each of their arrow keys a antithetic dessert. Get thing that volition marque your loved 1 bare each clip they look down. Seriously, these things look truthful delicious you'll conscionable privation to popular them successful your mouth. Don't, though. WIRED's adept testers person confirmed, they are not food.

  Note: You'll request to cognize what benignant of switches their keyboard uses (like MX switches) and marque definite the keycap supports it.

• For Neat Freaks

  

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  Secretlab

  Magnus and Magnus Pro Desk

  Cable enactment is the bane of immoderate PC gamer. It's truthful hard to signifier those pesky wires! These metal desks from Secretlab are the answer. They person a trench astatine the backmost wherever your giftee tin way each their wires and adjacent store a surge protector, keeping the messiness hidden. Secretlab besides has tons of magnetic accessories you tin bargain separately similar cablegram sheaths to fell wires connected the underside of the desk, cablegram clips to clasp charging cords successful place, and adjacent a headphone holder to suspend them without taking up table space.

  The Magnus is simply a modular table and the Magnus Pro is simply a lasting table that volition fto your giftee agelong their legs erstwhile successful a portion aft agelong hours of raids.

• Power Overwhelming

  

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  Few things are much important to a PC gamer than a bully graphics card. Nvidia's RTX 4000 bid has a beardown lineup, but the RTX 4060 is connected the little costly extremity portion inactive providing a coagulated magnitude of powerfulness for astir games. But if you're consenting to walk much than $500 connected a GPU, I urge holding off. Based connected erstwhile beingness cycles, the RTX 5000 bid update is connected the skyline (and immoderate leaks are already trickling out).