It’s that time of year again. The time when you break open the savings account, beg the easier parent and consider pimping your significant other or least-favourite sibling (not recommended) to afford that upgrade you’ve been putting off for the last six months. It’s time for you to scrounge your camping supplies, book those plane [...]

If you’re still in school, chances are that you’ve wondered why you should bother with maths. If you’re the parent of said child, chances are you’ve wondered the exact same thing, but told your child that they need maths because it’s important. Unless, of course, you’re a chartered accountant, in which case you’ve told your [...]

August is the E3 issue so there’s no shortage of exciting previews and exclusive information. We chat to EA about the upcoming Command and Conquer 4, and take a look at Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Rogue Warrior and Alpha Protocol. There’s no shortage of reviews, either, with Prototype, Red Faction: Guerrilla, Ghostbusters: The Video Game [...]

What, have they released the first Sims 3 expansion pack already? Not quite: The Sims Carnival is a games creator and gaming portal, and a damn accessible one at that. You can make your own games in no time, upload them to the web, check out other people’s creations, and even peek in at the [...]

If there’s a power failure and your PC is on, you could lose data. Windows could blue-screen every time you try to boot, especially if you’re running RAID 5 and the power cuts out while you’re writing data to your hard drives. The resulting power surge that occurs when the power comes back on could [...]

It’s not every day that a sports title makes me sit up and take notice, but when I first encountered 2006′s Fight Night Round 3, I was blown away by just how fun it actually was. That was then, and three years later, the title has changed hands within EA’s circle of development studios and [...]

It used to be that selecting a processor was easy. AMD had their simple processor lineups, namely the Athlon, Duron, Sempron, and Opteron lines. Intel had the loyal Celeron, Pentium, and Itanium ranges, and these were simple and easy to understand as well.  They were all differentiated by clockspeeds, and things were easy enough to [...]

You’ve been yammered at before about the possibility of console development, but a recent innovation may just interest you even more than those ramblings about XNA, coding, and all that related madness. In fact, this one is touted as being aimed at complete beginners (even children) so there’s really no excuse for you to cross [...]

In 2008, NATO’s intelligence department learns that the Russians have totally demolished one of their cities, called Gorky 17. The Russians claim the place was deserted, and trashed as part of its post-Cold War clean up operations. According to the game manual NATO official report, however, this city was a replica of an unspecified American [...]

Waxworks was originally released in 1992 on the Amiga (congrats if you know what that is) and PC, and has been brought back to life by the fine people at Good Old Games. This old-school gem is a horror-themed hybrid that combines elements of action, RPG, and adventure, and laid the path for many future [...]

It seems that mixing fantasy, black humour, and the chance to be the commander of an evil horde of destructive minions asserting dominance over a peaceful community, is an irresistible prospect for gamers. The first game that really did it well was Dungeon Keeper, a PC strategy game released in 1998. It wasn’t until 2007 [...]

If you’re working on an ambitious game development project (which you totally are, so don’t go and hide it now), it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’re going to get lost at some point. Why? Because game development isn’t a trivial undertaking, silly. You have to get yourself organised if you want to max out your [...]

The next undersea cable planning to steal our hearts is the East African Submarine Cable System. The project is expected to be completed by the end of June 2010.  EASSy is well under way with 40% of the cable construction already been completed. EASSy is a consortium of 27 operators building an open access international [...]

Hidden within the shadow of more famous contemporaries such as Age of Empires and the Civilization series, the Seven Kingdoms games have eked out a humble existence by straddling the line between combat-based RTS and economy-based management sims. In a nutshell, Seven Kingdoms 2 is the computer game equivalent of an identity crisis — without [...]

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the second half of 2009! I know many of you out there have been waiting patiently for this period, because this is when it all happens. What exactly happens, I hear you ask? Launches! The previous three months have been what we call the “Dry Season”. Just as heavy rain is seasonal, so [...]

When Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis wrote the script for the original 1984 Ghostbusters movie, they weren’t quite sure how it would be received. As it turned out, moviegoers loved it and, for a short while, Ghostbusters and everything about it became something of a phenomenon. It’s been a long time since then, but the [...]

Do you really, really want to become a game programmer? Do you really, really have no idea how to start? Try some Python! This easy and simple programming language is not just a great springboard for people who don’t know much about coding: it’s also a tool that’s gained a considerable following in South Africa [...]

NAG may be your bread and butter for gaming news, but how do you find out about game development? I’m not just talking about those slice-of-heaven tutorials and handy beginner guides written by handsome NAG devils: I’m looking at interviews, indie game reviews, postmortems, industry analysis, and chocolate cake recipes. I’m talking about being a [...]

Some of you may remember Excitebike for the original NES, one of that console’s memorable titles. It provided great gameplay and innovative features, and two decades later Excite Truck attempts to be a spiritual successor to this classic. There are several game modes, with Excite being the primary one. This is where most of the [...]