NEW GAME PLUS
Gifts For Everyone
Not every gift needs a gender lane. New Game Plus is the guide for when you know exactly who you’re shopping for and exactly zero about whether they’d want the his or hers framing — or when the honest answer is they’d like either list equally.
This is the everyone-guide: unisex geek gifts, crossover gaming gear, and gadgets that work whether the recipient’s setup is decked out in RGB or minimalist black. Kids, parents, coworkers doing Secret Santa, the friend whose fandoms don’t fit neatly anywhere else — this is their list.
The bar here is actually higher than the gendered guides, not lower. A pick has to work across genuinely different tastes without turning into a beige compromise nobody’s excited about. That means broadly excellent gear and gadgets useful enough that specificity doesn’t matter.
Why Universal Doesn't Mean Boring
Some of the best gear on this whole site lives here — charging stations, streaming and creator tools, tech that upgrades a setup regardless of what’s on the walls around it. New Game Plus isn’t the leftover pile after His and Hers get first pick; it’s where gear good enough for literally anyone ends up.
Shopping for someone you don’t know well, or just tired of picking a lane? Scroll the Featured Picks below — new finds get added as we come across them.
Our current picks for this guide
AFMVV Wireless Switch Controller Replacement — Left and Right, No Nintendo Logo Required
Joy-Con drift isn't a rumor, isn't a 'some units' problem, and isn't something Nintendo quietly fixed at some point — it's one of the most well-documented…
See the pick →KeySmart SmartCard Gen 3 Wallet Tracker — Ten Seconds of Panic, Now Zero
There's a very specific kind of panic that happens the second you pat your pocket and the wallet isn't there — not gone-forever panic, just the…
See the pick →Modern RGB Floor Lamp with Music Sync — Your Bedroom Finally Gets a Personality
Most bedroom lighting has exactly one setting: on. Maybe, if the manufacturer felt ambitious, a dimmer. This lamp looked at that low bar and decided it…
See the pick →Clip-On Contact Microphone Guitar Pickup — Plug In Without Drilling a Hole in Anything
Somewhere between 'I want to plug my acoustic into an amp' and 'I do not want to drill a hole in a guitar I actually like,'…
See the pick →Tisino 1/4-Inch to 1/8-Inch Stereo Headphone Adapter — The Gap Between Your Headphones and Reality
Every serious pair of headphones has, at some point, made you feel personally stupid standing in front of a laptop, holding a plug that is very…
See the pick →LEGO Legend of Zelda Boss Battle Building Set
Can we talk about Zelda merch for a second? Because I've been waiting. This is a franchise that's been redefining video games since I was in…
See the pick →LEGO Pokémon Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise Building Set
Alright, we need to talk about the starter Pokémon argument, because it never actually ended, it just went quiet for like twenty-five years. Every single one…
See the pick →Genki Covert Dock 3 — A Portable Charging Dock Built for Switch 2
Alright, let's talk about the Switch 2 dock for a second, because I need to get something off my chest. Nintendo makes this incredible little handheld,…
See the pick →ORGSTA S001 Bluetooth Label Maker — Organizing, Actually Portable
There is a very specific type of person who looks at an empty, perfectly good pantry jar and feels an almost physical need to label it…
See the pick →Continuous Laminated Label Tape Refill — Keep the Labeler Running
There's a category of product nobody has ever gotten excited about, and label tape refill wins every round, unopposed, forever. Nobody's unboxing this on camera. And…
See the pick →Pure Vitamin C 2,000mg — Max Potency, Actually Absorbed
Nobody's proud of their supplement drawer. It's the junk drawer's more embarrassing cousin — half-empty bottles, three brands of the same vitamin, one you're pretty sure…
See the pick →S.S.S. Tonic Liquid Iron & Vitamin B Supplement — Energy Support You Can Actually Take
The real enemy in the iron-supplement world isn't low iron itself — it's the horse-pill-sized tablets that make you gag before you've even had coffee. S.S.S.…
See the pick →Star Wars The Mandalorian Grogu Fuzzy Oversized Hoodie — Peak Couch Commander Energy
This is not, in any meaningful sense, a normal hoodie, and pretending otherwise insults both of us. It's a wearable excuse — an oversized, genuinely fuzzy…
See the pick →Anker MagGo Magnetic Power Bank — The Battery Brick That Actually Fits In Your Pocket
Let's be honest about most power banks: they're bricks. Useful bricks, sure, but bricks — the kind that live in the bottom of a bag, tangled…
See the pick →Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 — Fifteen Buttons That Will Make You Feel Like a Mission Control Operator
Let's start with the pitch: fifteen customizable LCD keys, each one ready to launch an app, switch a scene, fire off a chat message, or run…
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