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Review: DAH: Path of the Furon

Review: DAH: Path of the Furon

There’s something funny about alien anal probes. If there wasn’t, the idea wouldn’t have been lampooned in virtually every form of entertainment known to man. It’s probably one of the reasons that the first Destroy All Humans game was developed, and it seems that the shine hasn’t really worn off the concept yet – at [...]

Now, you CAN take it with you

Now, you CAN take it with you

When I read, a few years ago, that the World Cyber Games (or was it the Cyberathlete Professional League? I can’t remember which, now…) would be including mobile (i.e. cell-phone) games among the various events, I was, to say the least, a bit sceptical. To be fair, though, at that time my perspective excluded console [...]

Review: Halo Wars

Review: Halo Wars

Historically, migration between genres has been more or less synonymous with misadventure. Much like Paris Hilton’s music career, for example, it’s generally better to play to your strengths than risk it all with an insipid, insignificant fumble in some other direction. Of course, one might argue that whatever it was she was doing before was [...]

Welcome to the new NAG Online

Welcome to the new NAG Online

It’s been a long time coming (11 years to be precise) but it’s finally here – NAG Online is the place to catch up on the latest gaming reviews, discover new and incredible hardware and technology, and even learn a thing or two about making your very own games. We’ve put together a crack team [...]

GOOC2009 South African Qualifier

GOOC2009 South African Qualifier

By the time you read this, the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2009 South African qualifier will be over, a distant memory, and all that will remain will be a few HWbot points. It was an overclocking session like any other, tons of high end hardware pushed to the absolute limit, countless litres of liquid nitrogen [...]

TPB Review: Watchmen

TPB Review: Watchmen

It’s difficult to review Watchmen without resorting to “Just go out and buy it right now”, but keep those words on your mind at all times while reading this. Watchmen is the product of the legendary Andy Moore’s writing and Dave Gibbons’s artwork. Both are veterans in their fields and responsible for titles such as [...]

Win a copy of The Godfather II

Win a copy of The Godfather II

SMS the word Tommy to 33110 and stand a chance to win with Electronic Arts South Africa and NAG Online. Up for grabs are five copies of The Godfather II videogame (PS3) and unique codes to unlock Tommy Cipolla as a playable character in the game. While the other soldiers at the start of the [...]

NAG April issue

NAG April issue

This is it folks, our long-awaited April redesign issue. This issue is filled to the brim with all kinds of awesome; a review of F.E.A.R. 2 on PC, Killzone 2 and Halo Wars as well as Street Fighter IV, Dawn of War 2 and Skate 2. It’s a veritable sequel bonanza! We also review the [...]

Coming soon: ATI’s RV790 and RV740

Coming soon: ATI’s RV790 and RV740

This time last year, if you wanted a high-end graphics card, Nvidia’s 8800 series was by far the best choice; ATI’s 38xx series just couldn’t keep up. Then, when Nvidia released their GT200 series cards, the performance bar was set even higher. Massive graphics cards with massive performance, massive power draw, and a massive price [...]

Game Maker: a tool for anyone

Game Maker: a tool for anyone

Scared of game development? Don’t be! Game Maker proves that making your own amazing titles is both fun and easy to do.

Feature Review: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Feature Review: F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

Those of you who played through the first F.E.A.R. will remember that earth-shattering explosion that took place at the end of the game. F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin begins a short while before that explosion rocks the F.E.A.R. universe, placing you in the shoes of Sergeant Michael Becket (the Point Man, the protagonist from the original, [...]

Review: PAA: OTNRSPOD-E2

Review: PAA: OTNRSPOD-E2

For those not familiar with the series; Penny Arcade Adventures: On The Rain-Slick Precipice Of Darkness is a light RPG based on the long-running Penny Arcade webcomic. Set in a twisted steampunk/Lovecraftian-style version of the 1920s, you join the comic’s two main characters as they battle evil both supernatural and technological. Fortunately, the etiquette of [...]

A (really) brief history of game modding

A (really) brief history of game modding

Where did modding come from and how did it get here? Here’s a quick history of game modding and user-generated content.

Netbooks galore!

Netbooks galore!

Netbooks – a term coined by ASUS in 2007 – have been multiplying like rabbits and can now be found everywhere. The platform is so popular that even Zotac is making one of their own, complete with the stock-standard Intel Atom N270 CPU and, given their partnership with Nvidia, the Ion platform bundled as well. [...]

Gotta get yourself connected

Gotta get yourself connected

Sometime in 1983, Essex University in the UK decided to open remote access, via British Telecom’s Packet Switch Stream (something a bit like the Internet, but much more Dark Ages in sophistication; more or less comparable with anything currently offered by Telkom), to its DEC PDP-10 network assembly, linking it with America’s ARPANET. By dint [...]

NAG Issue Gallery

Contained within these hallowed pages are the ancient scrolls of NAGs long gone, but not forgotten. Here, preserved for all to see, are the cover images from the very first issue in April 1998 to the present day. 1998

Feature review: Street Fighter IV

Feature review: Street Fighter IV

It’s been ten years since the last version of Street Fighter was released in 1999. Not only was Street Fighter III: Third Strike – Fight for The Future the best out of the entire Street Fighter III series and, some would have argued, the best since 1994′s Super Street Fighter II Turbo (henceforth referred to [...]

Preview: Dante’s Inferno

Preview: Dante’s Inferno

The Divine Comedy, written early in the 14th century by Dante Alighieri, is an epic poem detailing a medieval view of the afterlife. Inferno, the first part of this work, describes the horrifying nature of hell and the punishment that sinners can expect. EA Redwood Shores (the same developers that brought us Dead Space) are [...]

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