So, you’ve heard all about this retro-gaming thing; you’re intrigued but a little scared. We understand. The world of oldschool games can be a confusing one for those of you who missed out on the golden age of gaming, so we’ve picked a few of our favourites, all of which are available through Good Old [...]

When I first had a good look at the EG500 my thought was that it looked weird but cool at the same time. With its black handrest, it looks right at home next to my Logitech G15 keyboard. The blue glow of the backlit keys makes it seem like a long-lost sibling. I must mention, [...]

Ever wanted to create your own super-duper adventure game in the vein of those old Sierra and Lucasarts classics? If you’re open to flexing your point-n-click muscles with the big boys, then perhaps it’s time to try out Adventure Game Studio. All the cool kids use it, and so can you. Adventure Game Studio (or [...]

I hate Japanese RPGs. Ask anyone who knows me. “She hates milk,” they’ll tell you, “and Japanese RPGs.” I hate pretty much everything about JPRGs. I hate the random encounters. I hate the tedious, overwrought narratives. I hate the insipid dialogue. I hate the presumption that I should take seriously any alleged evil committed by [...]

Our May issue is here, and it’s packed to the brim with only the hottest content. We review Resident Evil 5, Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X and lay on a double dose of Vin Diesel with The Wheelman and Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena. Don’t miss our territory exclusive preview of Assassin’s Creed II that’s [...]

The Ludum Dare 48-hour game development competition came to a close last weekend. Yes, you read correctly: 48 hours. That’s two days. Two days in which entrants had to conceptualise and develop an entire playable videogame. Themed “Advancing Wall of Doom” (how kickass does that sound?), the competition received a staggering 121 complete entries by [...]

Many of you may have heard all sorts of things about Intel’s Larrabee, lately. While a lot of it is rather nonsensical and conjecture at this point, I’m here to shed some light on the subject. Firstly, Larrabee is the end result of the latest trend toward using GPUs as a general-purpose solution. It’s a [...]

Since releasing Baldur’s Gate way back in 1998, Canadian developer BioWare has – wait. Wait, we can’t just rush blithely past Baldur’s Gate like that. Sure, Black Isle’s 1997 post-apocalyptic wasteland romper Fallout might have precipitated it all, but it was Baldur’s Gate that really dredged RPGs out of the muck and mire of two [...]

Power supplies: Often the least thought about, yet most important part of your PC. Why is it then, that most people buy the totally wrong PSU for their needs by going too small, or way too large? Is it really that hard to choose a power supply that’s right for your system? Besides just wattage [...]

This is a little complicated, so try to stay with me here. The Negima!? manga is the comic book accompaniment to the Negima!? anime series, which is a retelling of the first Negima! anime which is based on the original Negima! manga. Did you get all that? If you didn’t, well, it’s not all that [...]

The Nazi Zombies are back! Call of Duty: World at War‘s first map pack is now available for download for PC, for free. The Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the map pack have been available since March, but PC gamers have had to patiently wait for the map pack while our console brethren have [...]

Wallace and Gromit: The Fright Of The Bumblebees (W&G: TFOTB) is the first episode in Telltale Games’ latest series. For those not familiar with the clay-animated shorts: Wallace is a well-meaning but bumbling inventor, Gromit is his long-suffering pooch, and together they have some grand adventures in their sleepy English village. Telltale is well-known for [...]

Cape Town, the not-too-distant future. Corporate fascism is the ruling party, its self-interested protocols ruthlessly enforced by a corrupt police force, biotechnologically engineered dogs, restrictive socioeconomic mobility, and centrally-controlled 200-volt defuser discharges from your government-issue cellphone (Our Prerogative, Your Nervous System!). Meanwhile, out beyond the sunbed-dappled fringes of corporate privilege, a disenfranchised nation writhes choking [...]

After the decline of interest in Japanese animation in the West during the mid to late ’80s, one anime feature film in particular is credited with spearheading the Western revival of Japanimation fandom that occurred from the early ’90s onwards. Of course, I’m referring to Akira, the film adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo’s famous manga epic. [...]

The year is 2208. 50 years have passed since Parker freed Mars from the persecution of the Ultor Corporation in Red Faction 1. However, with the passage of time, the planet has once again come under oppression – this time at the hands of the once-beneficent Earth Defense Force (EDF).  The Mars of Red Faction: [...]

Hey! What’s that shiny little bauble that Microsoft’s waving in our faces now? Why, it appears to be a game development competition! Gadzooks! As it turns out, the IT giant has just announced the beginning of its 2009 Dream-Build-Play challenge, a game development competition that allows everyday Joes and Janes to pick up their dev [...]

This past Friday, NAG staffers battled their way through peak hour traffic to attend a Need for Speed: Shift media preview evening. Held at Melrose Arch Hotel, we sat through the presentation in which Stephen Viljoen, Chief Operations officer for Slightly Mad Studios, gave us the low-down on the new game and played some very [...]

The Longhorn beta, upon its release, was buggy and slow, which proved a sticking point with many beta users in the past. Microsoft apparently “took note” of the feedback submitted during Longhorn beta testing, but what was released three years ago was actually a worse version of the beta. On its release, Vista was hailed [...]

Unreal. It’s a modding buzzword, and for good reason: since the advent of the original Unreal game, enthusiastic developers have been scrambling all over this series to generate awesome content and make The Next Big Thing In Modding™. A lot of pretty cool things have emerged from the Unreal development community over the years: some, [...]