Any chair you play a game in is a gaming chair, surely? But no! Specialised gaming chairs are available from both established office furniture manufacturers and gaming brands, and tend to take the form of executive chairs as reimagined by a ten-year-old following an afternoon on the sugary snacks.
So you tend to get a high back, with a headrest designed not for resting your head but for displaying a logo - streamers might want to think carefully about precisely which brand they choose because of this. The sides of the chair wrap in to cocoon your body in leather, or leather-like synthetic material, and there’s plenty of adjustability to get things just right. The fashion of a few years ago that saw chairs in gaudy colours with holes driven through just about every surface that could tolerate one - for cooling purposes, we assume - seems to be over, and some of the best gaming chairs in 2023 come in shiny black and wouldn’t look out of place behind a desk in a bank.
