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Feature review: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty 

1. Feature review: StarCraft II: Wings of...

Back in 1998 I played StarCraft and really enjoyed it, but I am by no means a StarCraft fanboy. Consequently I like to think that I am able to approach this review with at least a smidgeon of objectivism. Now that that’s out of the way, the following sentence should, theoretically, hold a little more [...]

Feature review: Demon’s Souls 

2. Feature review: Demon’s Souls

This game has been out in Japan and the US for quite some time now and received more than its fair share of attention, being cited as a new and unusual action RPG for its rock-hard challenge and unique online mode. In case you are wondering, both of those statements are true – Demon’s Souls [...]

Feature review: Super Mario Galaxy 2 

3. Feature review: Super Mario Galaxy 2

I feel as if I’ve just come down from a three-day acid binge. Every time I close my eyes I see Power Stars that need collecting; every time I have the briefest of internal monologues, they are punctuated by high-pitched, grating Toad voices; I keep wishing my dog had a tongue half as awesome as [...]

E3 2010 – A whirlwind retrospective 

4. E3 2010 – A whirlwind retrospective

Another E3 has come and gone and gamers the world over are reeling in a euphoric haze after devouring way more gaming news than is ordinarily considered healthy. This year’s E3 ran from 15-17 June 2010, and over those few days all the big names in the industry dropped tons of information on what we [...]

Feature review: No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle 

5. Feature review: No More Heroes 2: Desperate...

Before I’d played No More Heroes, I would never have believed that a games developer would seriously consider turning a concept like that into an actual game. I would love to have been present at the concept pitch to the publisher: “OK, so you play an ex-pro-wrestler otaku with a light sabre katana out to [...]



Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Ep5: The City That Dares Not Sleep

Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Ep5: The City That Dares Not Sleep

Owing to Episode 4’s lacklustre experience, I was somewhat hesitant to venture into this, the final chapter of Sam & Max Season 3. The good news is that I needn’t have been; The City That Dares Not Sleep proved to be a good ending to an overall enjoyable season. At the end of Episode 4 [...]

Review: Oolite

Review: Oolite

Some 26 years ago, two students, Ian Bell and David Braben (who went on to become a rock-star game developer) met at Cambridge and compared notes on games they were both working on, and pooled their efforts to release one of the most influential games of all time, Elite. While this was not the first [...]

Review: Earthworm Jim HD

Review: Earthworm Jim HD

If you were around in the 16-Bit console era, then this one probably needs no introduction. Back then, console gamers didn’t have a whole lot of genres to choose from like we do today, and we were pretty much stuck with fighters, shooters, sports, the occasional racer and platformers, lots and lots of platformers. But [...]

NOTICE: We’ve been Left 4 Dead

NOTICE: We’ve been Left 4 Dead

We apologise for the site being down over the weekend and also for the current intermittent problems. But it’s all cool because obviously we’re not really trying to run a serious business here after all – who needs a website to be working over the weekend right? We have no idea what the problem is because the [...]

NAG September 2010 issue

NAG September 2010 issue

Our September issue is almost ready to hit the shelves, and it’s filled with only the hottest content to get you ready for the coming Christmas rush. We sent Michael off to the far reaches of the planet to get his mitts on The Force Unleashed II, take another peak at Dead Rising 2, step [...]

The long wait… is still not over!

The long wait… is still not over!

Last week Telkom started upgrading its 4Mb/s customers to 8 and 10Mb/s respectively. Those in areas that had ADSL2+ exchanges that had been upgraded or built on Vodacom’s metro Ethernet network woke up on Monday happily surprised at their new speedtest results. We assume that Telkom will eventually upgrade it’s 384 and 512 subscribers. Those [...]

Review: Monkey Island 2: Special Edition

Review: Monkey Island 2: Special Edition

I’m trying to figure out another way to open this review without sounding like an old git harping on about the good old days and the forgotten art of graphic adventure games – but it doesn’t seem like there’s any other way to do it. At any rate, one of the most famous and well-loved [...]

Review: DeathSpank

Review: DeathSpank

This is the story of man, a hero to the downtrodden, a protector of the weak, a wearer of a purple thong, and, most importantly, a dispenser of justice – like, really, I’m not kidding here, he dispenses justice, like a… soap dispenser, or something. More on that later. The hero is question is named [...]

Feature review: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Feature review: StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty

Back in 1998 I played StarCraft and really enjoyed it, but I am by no means a StarCraft fanboy. Consequently I like to think that I am able to approach this review with at least a smidgeon of objectivism. Now that that’s out of the way, the following sentence should, theoretically, hold a little more [...]

Hardware review: Alienware M15X gaming notebook

Hardware review: Alienware M15X gaming notebook

After reading the title of this review, I have no doubt many of you are drooling in anticipation; it’s not every day we get a high-end Alienware laptop in South Africa. For those that aren’t drooling, this is probably because you’ve never heard of Alienware before now, so a quick history lesson is in order. [...]

NAG Case Mod: Started some aluminium work!

NAG Case Mod: Started some aluminium work!

Man, I’ve been having so much fun on this project. The more I think about it, the more excited I get. I bought some 1.2mm thick aluminium yesterday for use in the mod. There are four pieces lying there. [...]

Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Ep4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls!

Review: Sam & Max: The Devil’s Playhouse Ep4: Beyond the Alley of the Dolls!

During the first five minutes of this episode I thought I was about to witness something witty and ingeniously satirical – you know, what we’ve come to expect from Sam & Max games. Episode 4 opens with our heroes fleeing in terror from wave after wave of mindless Sam clones (“Dogglegangers!”). From that point onwards, [...]

Review: LIMBO

Review: LIMBO

Every now and then a game comes along that irrevocably shatters your conviction of what gaming is all about. LIMBO is, without question, one of those games. I honestly wish that I could force every person I know to play through it just once. The premise is simple: “Uncertain of his sister’s fate, a boy [...]

Review: Singularity

Review: Singularity

It’s one of those inevitable incidents, like the next rainstorm or power-outage, and it’s something we’ve just come to accept as part of gaming culture: the next FPS game. Since the phenomenon was set in motion roughly 15 years ago by Doom, we’ve had to endure FPS releases almost on a monthly basis. Thankfully, most [...]

Size does count… at a LAN!

Size does count… at a LAN!

I feel that my opinion of laptops and portable devices has changed significantly over the past few months. Now that I’m actually selling them to customers, I have to see where the allure is for a particular notebook, and for what workloads it would be suitable for. Business laptops are always elegant, yet thick and [...]

NAG August 2010 issue

NAG August 2010 issue

As we draw closer to the Christmas rush, and the chaos caused by E3 has cooled, we take a good look at the massive lineup of games and gaming hardware coming our way over the course of the next year. We get hands-on with Mafia II and Medal of Honour, and give you our full [...]

Retro review: Gobliiins Pack

Retro review: Gobliiins Pack

The Gobliiins Pack includes three games. These are Gobliiins, Gobliins 2: The Prince Buffoon, and Goblins 3. No, I’ve not committed some grievous spelling error – INCONTHIEVABLE! – but instead, the number of ‘i’s in the title represents the number of playable characters in each game. In an exceedingly clever twist, this sequence is perfectly inverted in series iterations.

Review: Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars

Review: Tatsunoko vs Capcom: Ultimate All Stars

We really have to thank Capcom for giving us match-ups we never could have dreamed of with their trademark “versus” series of fighting games, which let us experience battles between characters from different videogames and beyond. Well, that time has come again, and this time Capcom has decided to pluck a crew of characters from [...]

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  • Rocket Jump Rocket Jump
    September 2, 2010 @ 6:49 PM

    Not much in the news today, but there is this little video we think you should see, so click the image below: “So man created the rocket jump, and it was leet.” Freddiew makes a lot of fun movies with rather good special effects. Look at the rest [here].

  • Future Past: Details on Telltale Games’ Back to the Future Future Past: Details on Telltale Games’ Back to the Future
    September 2, 2010 @ 12:03 PM

    The creators of the Sam & Max, Tales of Monkey Island and Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People series of episodic games are hard at work on an episodic series of titles based on the beloved Back to the Future trilogy (they’re also working on a little something based on Jurassic Park, in case you’re interested). They’ve [...]

  • Batman: Arkham City Batman: Arkham City
    September 2, 2010 @ 5:11 PM

    Batman: Arkham Asylum was one of the best games of last year. I don’t need to tell you this, you know it already, because you’ve played it. Right? Well, here are some screenshots of the sequel – Batman: Arkham City – which will apparently have multiplayer, but there’s no word on if it’ll be just a [...]

  • It sold how much?! It sold how much?!
    September 1, 2010 @ 1:52 PM

    Been wondering how well StarCraft II has been selling in the month that has passed since its release? We all know that the game sold over a million copies within 24 hours of it hitting store shelves, making it the fastest-selling PC game of 2010 from day one. It then went on to hit the 1.5-million mark in its [...]

  • Ubisoft teasing… something or other. Ubisoft teasing… something or other.
    September 1, 2010 @ 11:13 AM

    So I step into the office this morning and waiting for me in my inbox is an e-mail from Ubisoft’s marketing people. My first thought? How nice of them to send me this lovely little e-mail. Perhaps they want to see how I’m doing, find out if everything’s okay, maybe send me some free things for [...]

  • Blizzard Blizzard <3 James Cameron
    September 1, 2010 @ 1:39 PM

    There’s a World of Warcraft movie in the works, with director Sam Raimi (director of the Spider-Man movie trilogy) steering the great big WoW-movie bus along – we’ve known about this for a while. A movie based on StarCraft, however, is not happening. Not unless someone like Avatar-boy James Cameron happened to come along and woo [...]

  • Epic collector’s edition for Epic Mickey Epic collector’s edition for Epic Mickey
    August 31, 2010 @ 12:49 PM

    Have you gotten tired of your plain old white Wii just sitting there, looking painfully boring and boasting a distinct lack of Disney’s flagship character? Then this ought to put a smile on your face. Game-industry legend Warren Spector’s newest baby, Epic Mickey, is getting a nifty collector’s edition if this Toys ‘R Us product listing is to be believed. [...]

  • Activision (1980) – engineers, hippies, corporate speak Activision (1980) – engineers, hippies, corporate speak
    August 28, 2010 @ 5:27 PM

    It’s amazing how little has really changed in 30 years, if you watch this Activision Corporate Commercial (1981). Sure, the graphics have gotten better, but the underlying thinking, the blatant corporate double-speak and PR bull-manure, is just as bad then as it still is now. Activision: We’ve taken Frogger, replaced the frog with a chicken, and [...]

  • Red Dead Redemption movie? Brad Pitt as John Marston? Huh? Red Dead Redemption movie? Brad Pitt as John Marston? Huh?
    August 28, 2010 @ 11:29 AM

    Could a big-screen adaptation of Rockstar’s epic Red Dead Redemption be in the works? If the rumour mills over at ShowbizSpy are to be believed, then there is, and Brad Pitt has first refusal for the role of John Marston. ShowbizSpy’s sources apparently had this to say: “This is an exciting project with a great character [...]

  • Gender Bender Gender Bender
    September 1, 2010 @ 7:55 PM

    What if well-known videogame characters were the opposite gender of what they are now? Aside from how uncomfortable it might make the various princesses that need saving, these images found via Examiner could make you feel funny in new and interesting places. Just go with it man, just go with it.

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