Holiday Buying Guide

TIME brings you the best of this year's holiday entertainment gifts, from a bound collection of Marilyn Monroe photography to a boxed retrospective of the films of Stanley Kubrick, a boxed set that pays homage to the days of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, a Johnny Cash anthology, and more

BioShock

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$59.95

Absolutely the best action-role playing game set in a ruined art-deco underwater city that you'll play this year. Beautifully written and acted, BioShock tells a rich, weird story about a metropolis beneath the waves ruled by an Orwellian madman, whom you must assassinate, through the medium of a complex combat system that involves modifying your own DNA in real-time to give yourself a rotating arsenal of superpowers.

Lev Grossman

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