The GayGamer.net 2009 Holiday Buyer's Guide

Just in time for all you last minute shoppers, we thought we would republish this list from a few weeks back. Your friendly neighborhood GayGamer.net staff has put together a little holiday shopping guide of their favorite titles for everyone out there in a quandary about what to buy/ask for this year. Or if you prefer, you can send your non-gaming partner of friends to this list to get something for you. All links in this article will take you to the GayGamer Amazon store so you can buy with pride and help support your favorite gay gaming website at the same time. Now, on to the Guide!

PS3
- Dragon Age: Origins - Bioware brings us sword and sorcery done right in this extensive RPG. A little gay romance doesn't hurt either.
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - Nathan Drake is back in another grand adventure that's every bit as good as the first. Great action adventure for the holidays.
- Borderlands - Choose from four different character classes in this outer space western FPS with plenty of missions and literally millions of randomly generated weapons.
- God of War Collection - The first two god of War games get the HD treatment. Two games for the price of one.
- Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack In Time - The other dynamic duo return for what might be the final game in the series. Clever time puzzles and hilarious weapons make this a must have for fans.
- The Beatles: Rock Band - Play the classic music of one of the world's greatest bands right in your own living room
- Buzz: Quiz World - Everyone's favorite game show host is back with more questions and even more customization. Great trivia party game for the holidays or anytime.
- Brutal Legend - Double Fine plants tongue firmly in cheek with this campy heavy metal game that includes action, driving and RTS elements.
- DJ Hero - Spin tunes and remixes from your favorite artists in your attempt to become the world's greatest (virtual) DJ.
- inFamous - Use your newfound powers of electricity to save the city from evil's grasp
- Batman Arkham Asylum - One of the best super hero games yet made. Become the Dark Knight and defeat the Joker in his attempt to rule Arkham Asylum.
- Assassin's Creed 2 - Ezio Auditore da Firenze embarks upon an adventure of revenge in 15th century Italy. AKA The Assassin of Venice
- Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition - One of last year's best games now in one convenient package with all of it's DLC. Post apocalyptic FPSing at it's best.
- Little Big Planet Game of the Year Edition - Sackboy made quite an impression in Media Molecule's brilliant platformer last year. Now he's back with additional DLC and user created levels.
- Demon's Souls - Test your mettle with this engrossing and challenging RPG from Atlus.
- Flower - Relax and go with the flow in this truly unique and beautiful downloadable title
- Singstar Queen - Sing along to the nearly impossible to match vocal stylings of Freddie Mercury.
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Blaz Blue proves that the 2D fighting genre's not out of the race yet.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2- The unstoppable franchise tightens its grasp on war themed shooter game fans.
- PS3 Points Card - Not sure what to get the gamer who seems to have everything? This is a good bet.
- PS3 Slim Console

Xbox 360
- Dragon Age: Origins - Bioware brings us sword and sorcery done right in this extensive RPG. A little gay romance doesn't hurt either.
- Left 4 Dead 2 - The zombie apocalypse moves to the south with a whole new cast of characters. Terrific zombie FPS for online play or side by side.
- Batman Arkham Asylum - One of the best super hero games yet made. Become the Dark Knight and defeat the Joker in his attempt to rule Arkham Asylum.
- The Beatles: Rock Band - Play the classic music of one of the world's greatest bands right in your own living room
- Brutal Legend - Double Fine plants tongue firmly in cheek with this campy heavy metal game that includes action, driving and RTS elements.
- Borderlands - Choose from four different character classes in this outer space western FPS with plenty of missions and literally millions of randomly generated weapons.
- Fallout 3 Game of the Year Edition - One of last year's best games now in one convenient package with all of it's DLC. Post apocalyptic FPSing at it's best.
- DJ Hero - Spin tunes and remixes from your favorite artists in your attempt to become the world's greatest (virtual) DJ.
- Assassin's Creed 2 - Ezio Auditore da Firenze embarks upon an adventure of revenge in 15th century Italy. AKA The Assassin of Venice
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Blaz Blue proves that the 2D fighting genre's not out of the race yet.
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - The unstoppable franchise tightens its grasp on war themed shooter game fans.
- Xbox LIVE Points Card - - Not sure what to get the gamer who seems to have everything? This is a good bet.
- Xbox 360 console

Wii
- New Super Mario Bros. Mario, Luigi, Toad and Yoshi put a new multi-player spin on a Nintendo classic.
- Metroid Prime Trilogy - Join Samus Aron in this collection of her greatest prime adventures.
- Madworld - It's a world gone mad as reality TV goes to a new level of violence and gore.
- Murumasa: The Demon Blade - VanillaWare brings us another stunningly beautiful 2D adventure replete with ninjas, demons and ghosts.
- The Beatles: Rock Band - Play the classic music of one of the world's greatest bands right in your own living room
- DJ Hero - Spin tunes and remixes from your favorite artists in your attempt to become the world's greatest (virtual) DJ.
- Punch Out - The classic Nintendo game comes to the Wii with Little Mac in all his next generation glory.
- Little King's Story - What frames itself as a cute fantasy-themed empire building game is actually a scathing South Park-like comedic satire on goverment, nationalism, and socio-economic tension.
- Wii Cheer 2 - The art of the pom pom is not dead. Ready? OK!
- Wii Fit Plus - take your weight loss program to a whole new level with your balance board and Wii Fit Plus
- Wii Points Card - Not sure what to get the gamer who seems to have everything? This is a good bet.
- Wii Console

PSP
- Dissidia Final Fantasy - Value for your money, hundreds of hours of gameplay and lots of avatar tweaking. Plus... Final Fantasy. 'Nuff said.
- Shin Megami Tensei: Persona - The emo-est game in town comes to the PSP
- LittleBigPlanet - Sackboy brings his cute platforming ways to the PSP with all new levels and costumes.
- Resistance: Retribution - Battling aliens
- LocoRoco 2 - The incredibly addicting, eternally cute Loco Rocos come back for another game of simple pleasures.
- Patapon 2 - Lead the Patapons to victory in the follow up to the original rhythm batle game.
- Rock Band Unplugged - Rock on with Rock Band on your PSP. No plastic guitar or drum kit required.
- Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny - A must have for Soul Calibur fans. One of the best handheld fighting games on the market
- Half-Minute Hero - Here's a totally unique title, playing off the tropes that make RPGs cliché and fun while dialing them up into a reflex-based action/puzzle title.
- PSP Go

DS
- Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box - Professor Layton and Luke are back to fry your brian with a series of puzzling puzzles.
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks - Link trades his boat for a train as he sets off on another adventure to save the mysterious Princess Zelda. What will she look like this time?
- Scribblenauts - Use your stellar vocabulary to solve a myriad of perplexing puzzles
- Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story - Everyone's favorite plumber and his brother set of to explore the depths of Bowser's insides.
- Henry Hatsworth and the Puzzling Adventure - British camp comes to this quirky and clever puzzle game that makes use of both DS screens.
- Rhythm Heaven - Pick up your rhythm stick and get tapping! The rhythm game that's as kooky as it is challenging.
- Nintendo DSi
PC
- Dragon Age: Origins - Bioware brings us sword and sorcery done right in this extensive RPG. A little gay romance doesn't hurt either.
- Left 4 Dead 2 - The zombie apocalypse moves to the south with a whole new cast of characters. Terrific zombie FPS for online play or side by side.
- Batman Arkham Asylum - One of the best super hero games yet made. Become the Dark Knight and defeat the Joker in his attempt to rule Arkham Asylum.
- Borderlands - Chose from four different character classes in this outer space western FPS with plenty of missions and literally millions of randomly generated weapons.
- Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - The unstoppable franchise tightens its grasp on war themed shooter game fans.
- Plants vs Zombies - PopCap! This means addictive. It also means very fun tower defense game with zombies, plants, and plenty of humor and zaniness.
- Sims 3 The Sims franchise continues to play to people's God complex in amusing and often fascinating ways.
- Secret of Monkey Island Special Edition The Lucas Arts point and click adventure gets a facelift. But don't worry, you can go back to the old face if you want to.







