December 28th, 1979. Somewhere south of LA, Kyle Hyde walks into Hotel Dusk, a  shabby, unobtrusively disreputable establishment off the 101. Hyde used to be a cop, but now he’s an itinerant salesman for Red Crown, shucking novelty crap from one dusty town to the next. Sometimes he’ll do a job off the books for [...]

Love it or hate it, the popular Warcraft III map (or mod, as some like to call it) Defense of the Ancients (DotA), is a classy game. It combines tactical strategy with elements of RPG and arena-style team-based gameplay to deliver what’s ultimately a very good game. It should come as no surprise, then, that [...]

When it comes to game development, people frequently approach me with the question, “HAY DOOD! Where do you hang out? Where do you get info on stuffs?” The answer to that is fairly in-depth. First of all, because I’m an awesome game dev journalist (who would never, ever speak wrongly of local developers Luma Arcade [...]

Everyone wants a high-end system, right? Unfortunately, they require tons of power to run, and those systems are consuming more and more energy, thereby increasing the need for things such as coal-derived electricity and fossil fuels. Owners of such systems are also spending a large amount of money per year (which they don’t need to [...]

Our June issue is ready to hit the shelves and should appear in stores on Thursday the 28th of May (subscribers may receive it sooner). We’ve got a monstrous, ten page Modern Warfare 2 preview packed with exclusive info and screenshots, hands-on previews of Ghostbusters, Anno 1404 and Call of Jaurez: Bound in Blood and [...]

“Where are all the South African game dev studios?” we hear you cry. “Surely if we claim to have potential, there must be a company or two out there doing some cool stuff?” Cease your lamentations, little one. The fairy godmother has just landed on your shoulder, sprinkled some generic magical powder over your face, [...]

If ever there was a game designed almost solely to be appreciated by long-time gamers who’ve been at it since damn near the beginning, it’s Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. This game is filled with so many industry inside jokes, ripoffs, and pop-culture references from the last thirty years, that someone whose first [...]

Welcome back to NAG Online, adventurer! You are currently standing in an open meadow dotted with a few trees. To the north lies a river and page header. There is an article on adventure gaming here, as well as a small note tacked to a nearby stump. >READ NOTE The note explains your current situation: [...]

Two things to mention here. First – after a minor delay we’ve selected and contacted all the winners for our Godfather II competition. Congratulations are in order for: Gunter Keller of Aston Manor Robin de Villiers of Nigel Paul Tree of Brackendowns Johan Mynhardt of Bedfordview Laurence da Silva of Somerset West We hope you [...]

So you got a flat tire, missed a meeting, dropped your cellphone in your coffee, and the dog peed on the rug. Betcha think you had a bad day, huh? Well, take solace from the fact that it’s nothing compared to the day Raymond Bryce is having… Disaster: Day of Crisis is a survival action [...]

R2 a megabyte! That’s how much you pay when you go out of bundle (OOB) using 3G (on MTN and Vodacom). That’s R2048 a gig! I like buying 10 megabyte bundles thinking I’m getting a good deal – “only” R1024 a gig. On ADSL you can get R60 a gig and that’s shaped. For uncapped [...]

Earth, the future. Well, 25 years from now. Obviously it’s one of those bleak, shellshocked, dystopian futures, because if video games have taught us anything (besides how to kill people), it’s that the future will be bleak, shellshocked, and totally dystopian. Anyway, this guy whose name (Colonel Klein) bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to someone [...]

If you’re in the market for a netbook, chances are you’ve considered the most important aspects when shopping in this sector – portability and connectivity. After all, a netbook is little more than a glorified mobile Web browser that has office productivity abilities thrown in. It’s important, then, when you’re spending well into the upper [...]

It’s no secret that avid gamers are somewhat sceptical of games created around licensed properties, particularly big Hollywood movies, and there’s good reason for that. However, it’s starting to become the norm to assume that when developer Starbreeze Studios is at the helm, licensed games tend to turn out pretty damn good. This might be [...]

Many of us gamers who attend LANs regularly have this problem: where the hell do we put our PC in our car? How do we transport our beloved 22” LCD safely to rAge? More importantly, how do we make sure that our stuff will be kept safe? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to [...]

TimeGate Studios isn’t known for developing FPS titles. They’re the developers of the popular RTS series Kohan, but aside from the expansions to the original F.E.A.R., they’ve shied away from creating FPS titles – until now, that is. Section 8 is TimeGate’s first attempt at creating an original FPS that hopes to bring major changes [...]

Want to get into game development, but don’t know which tools to use? Fair enough: there are a lot of options out there, and it’s difficult to tell which ones are going to do the job for you. This week, we offer you a few handy suggestions, which are all absolutely free to download. And [...]

Eagle Dynamics, responsible for the successful Lock On: Air Combat Simulation, change direction to bridge the gap between combat simulation and the high fidelity of flight simulation. The package looks good and the hype on their web site will get any combat simulation air force pilot wannabes heading to BT Games. Flight simulation enthusiasts will [...]

Evolution: it is the key to the PC industry’s survival. It’s how ATI has grown from being the underdog of the industry to one of the most interesting GPU manufacturers on the planet. Normally this process is slow, taking thousands and thousands of hours… but every so often, evolution leaps forward! Back when ATI released [...]