Top 5 Christmas Gift Cards for Gamers

Gift Cards are great Christmas gifts because they allow the giver to give an easy yet effective gift and the recipient the freedom to get whatever they want upon receiving them. Here are the five best Gift Cards to give for gamers.

5: Target Gift Card.

Target is a store that usually has a good selection of good, new games and plenty of old games at a very good price. They cover all the current systems, from the Nintendo Wii to the PlayStation 3, and even the PlayStation 2, as game companies are still making games for that system. The cool thing about a Target Gift Card is that you can go to www.target.com and customize the look of the gift card with various designs. Most gift cards from Target start at either $10 or $25, and have a maximum of $1000. That's a lot of games.

4: Circuit City Gift Card

Circuit City also has a good selection of available game, definitely a better, wider selection than Target in my opinion. What Circuit City also seems to be good for are video game accessories, as I've been to two different Circuit City stores and I noticed that both of them have tons of video game accessories, from normal controllers and memory cards to guitar controllers and special cords for whatever given purpose. From www.circuitcity.com, you can get a Christmas gift card with different designs as well from $5 to $500.

3: Best Buy Gift Card

Best Buy has a great selection of video games, and from what I can tell, has an even better selection of video games than both Target and Circuit City, although City Circuit has a great selection on video game accessories that Best Buy can only hope to compete with. Still, Best Buy's selection of games is more than enough to justify it's position on this list. Best Buy gift cards also have various designs which depend on the type of card, and they go from $5 to $500.

2: Mastercard Gift Card

Sometimes, a gamer doesn't really like the games that are available to buy at the moment. Sometimes, a gamer might not like a particular store that you may get a gift card from. And sometimes, a gamer might be looking for a game or an accessory that just can't be found in stores. It's difficult to identify this gamer without asking him or her personally, but if you are getting a gift card for one of these types of gamers this Christmas, then you can't go wrong with a Mastercard Gift Card. If you go to www.mastercard.com, they give you information on where and how to get gift cards from different places. I recommend Mastercard because I was given one a couple of years back and had no problem with it. I hear that Visa Gift Cards are good too if you prefer. Mastercard Gift cards are usable anywhere a Mastercard credit card is accepted.

1: GameStop Gift Card

The absolute best possible Christmas Gift Card for the gamer is a gift card from GameStop. GameStop has the best selection of video games and video game accessories, period. They have the best prices for old games and they're good for having the best prices on new games as well. They also have good prices on video games and other products related to video games, such as magazines and guides. You can go to www.gamestop.com and get a card for probably any amount (the website lists no maximum) for at least $10.