For the most part, “games of the movie” tend to be pretty crap. You know the type: rushed out the door to coincide with the film release, lacking in everything but licensed voice actors, and filled with pitiful attempts to rake in the film-loving crowd with gratuitous recreations of “that cool part in the movie [...]

Hard-boiled detective work, a badass trenchcoat and post-nuclear dystopia. This is what you get when you slip yourself into the … wait, you know what? We’ve been over this before. The Tex Murphy games are a set of oft-overlooked classics that put you in the shoes of the titular character: everyone’s favourite post-apocalyptic private investigator. [...]

My first PC ran on an AMD AthlonXP 1700+. It had a Palomino core running at 1.43Ghz, a 266MHz front side bus, and 256KB of  L2 cache. But that wasn’t what started my infatuation with technology. That was due to my friend’s Pentium 1 133mhz and Voodoo graphics card. Back then, playing StarCraft, Theme Hospital, [...]

I think that the bigger developers have only themselves to blame when gamers, whether they’re journalists or consumers, approach PSP iterations of big PS3 titles with some apprehension, wondering whether the title has been produced with the same aspirations as the glamorous home console versions, or simply squeezed through a short production pipeline to capitalise [...]

For the release of Army of Two: The 40th Day, Salem and Rios will be present in London to promote the sequel to the followup to EA’s solid co-op shooter. Obviously they can’t be there themselves, but they’ll be played by two suitably-beefy actors who have mastered all of the fist-pounding, chest-bashing machismo the videogame [...]

There are many game development styles out there. Some people prefer building game worlds, some focus on rules and systems, and others prefer starting out with player/verb frameworks. These categories are nebulous at best, and even attempting to define them warrants an article of its own, but most people agree on the existence of at [...]

It’s almost 2010 and NAG is here to usher you into the future. In our January issue, we have a red-hot Dead Space 2 feature to keep you entertained, reviews of Modern Warfare 2, Assassin’s Creed II, Left 4 Dead 2, DJ Hero and even some Wii-loving with reviews of Need for Speed: Nitro and [...]

Few developers are as shameless as Tecmo when it comes to blatant female exploitation in videogames. I mean, there are some other developers out there who can match their feminine exposure, but Tecmo completely lacks that thin veneer of tact us guys can use to partially obscure our carnal interests in the digital dolls parading [...]

[Due to the reviewer coming down with a terrible case of scurvy, our review of Tales of Monkey Island Episode 4 slipped through the cracks and ended up here. We know, Episode 5 is already available; we've currently got our dirty hands on it and will have a review up this week, but in the [...]

The biggest hit of 2009, next to Borderlands, Arkham Asylum and Insert Game Name Here, was Trials HD. Sublime, difficult and totally fun, Trials HD tickled your hardcore bone right there, hoo that’s nice, oh yeah don’t stop baby. Well, the DLC is on the way, and it adds new levels and new props. More importantly, [...]

Capcom has released a few more shots and some more info about Resident Evil 5: Alternative Edition for the PS3 and Xbox 360. Turns out that there will be not one, but two extra episodes for players to go through as Jill Valentine. The second episode, entitled “Desperate Escape” will see Jill trying to escape [...]

2009 has been a huge year for gaming. We’ve seen the release of some highly anticipated sequels, big movements in the rhythm scene, truly modern approaches to some classic RPG elements and a zombie around almost every corner. As the year draws to a close, we look back at some of the highlights of the [...]

It seems that Microsoft’s new endeavor, Games on Demand, is going to be incorporated in Games for Windows, which, for the uninitiated, is sort of like Xbox LIVE for Windows, complete with achievements and all the other bangs and whistles. This is an obvious attempt to try and break into the market that Valve already [...]

One of the hardest things for most people to do is to draw up a Christmas wishlist. For those of you readers not yet working, the choice is especially difficult when it comes to technology, because there’s a lot of stuff out there that we simply can’t afford. The following nine items are products that [...]

You can throw whatever kind of equal-opportunity, female-exploitation and progressive-thinking you like at the issue, but you can’t change the fact: Most female video game protagonists are made to be ogled by the still predominantly male gaming market. With the advances in technology, the ever-increasing artistic acceptance of videogames, and the fact that acting in [...]

It’s hard to believe in this day and age, but not everything Sega touches turns to poop. Valkyria Chronicles on the PS3 is a very interesting and unique strategy-based RPG with a cast of great characters and a compelling story. The sequel is due to land on the PSP in the next few months, so [...]

More Borderlands downloadable content? Yes please! The previous DLC was a blast with plenty of zombie-killing content, though this new one focuses more on adding some new Arenas, a storage area for saving your awesome guns, and two new skillpoints to gain. Here’s the official blurb: New York, NY – December 10, 2009 – 2K [...]

Here at NAG, we’re pretty crazy for anything zombie-related. We strongly believe that any game from any genre will simply be made better by the addition of zombies. So, when we heard about Zombie Driver, you’ll understand that “we were excited” is a bit of an understatement. The concept is solid: take oldschool GTA-style driving, [...]

We all have our special few programs that we cannot live without and always install after every time we format our PCs. Below are a few of the applications that I hold dear, and all are free to download. Firefox (7.6MB) When looking at the market share for October 2009 [as per w3schools.com - statistics [...]