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T. rex gone wild: Primal Carnage footage will ‘splode your mind

I used to think that putting dinosaurs in your game would automatically makes it awesome. That was a thing, until I played Dino D-Day. The dinos made it better, obviously, but in a similar kind of way to finding chocolate in a bowl of vomit. An oddly pleasant addition, sure, but an altogether horrifying offering.

Thankfully, we’ve got Unreal Engine-powered Primal Carnage incoming sometime in the future, and it hopes to reaffirm my belief in the power that dinosaurs have on gaming. To quote the game’s official site, it’s an “asymmetrical online-multiplayer class-based game of humans versus dinosaurs” – a phrase so beautiful that typing it forced me to let out a few tears. Various class roles will be on offer in the game, allowing you to play everything from stealthy guy/reptile to heavy duty man/rex (and everything in between). If all you really want to do is loose flamethrowers on a pterosaur, there’s that too.

Alpha trailer lies below the break.

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Posted by Dane Remendes May 09, 2012
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Isaac’s expanded Binding gets a trailer and details

I hope that everyone reading this has played The Binding of Isaac. If you haven’t, you should go buy it right now. Seriously, you’ll thank me later. Its shmuppy roguelike charms still have me occasionally loading it up every once in a while to warily guide Isaac through what is possibly the most deranged basement in all of existence, giddily pissing on any and everything that I find in the hopes that it’ll somehow reward me with coins to spend on epic items and a better chance to defeat mom. True story.

I still find it hard to believe that access to the many hours of madly addictive joy that this game offers costs only $4.99 ($5.98 if you want the sountrack as well, which I recommend that you should, as it’s superb). Anyway, it looks like I (and hopefully you as well) will be spending a lot more time getting back into the game very soon, as the long-coming expansion, subtitled Wrath of the Lamb, will be available on Steam at the end of this month. It promises more of everything, and that’s just perfect.

Move past the jump for more info. And a trailer!

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Posted by Dane Remendes May 08, 2012
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NAG Magazine: May 2012 Issue

It’s May already! It’s almost as if the passing of time is a natural thing.

Our May issue is brimming with deliciousness, starting with our cover feature on what happens when Assassin’s Creed jumps on a ship headed in the direction of America. It looks hot, to say the least. We look at the top eight games you need to be obsessed with this year, and provide a peek at all manner of gaming lifestyle doohickies that you might want to get your hands on. Darksiders II gets us excited about Death. Epic Mickey 2 gets us excited about rabbits and twosomes. And our motherboard roundup gets us excited about, well… motherboards.

Be sure to check out our mega-exclusive review of Prototype 2, filled with explosions and tendrils and people going splat in countless, gloriously gruesome ways. Journey makes us fall in love with strangers (and wonder what it is we’ve done wrong when they inevitably leave us), Armored Core V delivers the mech-tastic action, Twisted Metal gets violence in our ice-cream and SSX shreds the powder, maaaaan.

Our previews this month include Sleeping Dogs (aka Hong Kong-flavoured Grand Theft Auto) and the resulting lunacy/fun times that naturally occur when TrackMania‘s ideals get plastered onto the FPS face of ShootMania Storm. Hardware gets its GPU on with the ASUS GeFORCE GTX 680 and GIGABYTE RADEON R7870C-2GD. Asrock surprises us with their X79 Fatal1ty Professional motherboard, and Acer’s Aspire S3 ultrabook hopes to show all those tablets what it’s made of.

You’ll find all these wonderful things and more in the May issue of NAG. Be sure to look out for the magazine on Zinio as well, where we’ll have (or already do have, depending on when you’re reading this) an exclusive digital bonus cover.

Click here for the contents PDF [399 KB]

Posted by Dane Remendes Apr 24, 2012
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NAG survey competition winners

This is the part where we congratulate all the winners of the survey that we ran with the March issue of the magazine. We’d like to extend our sincerest thanks and appreciation and heart-shaped cookies to everyone who took the time to fill out and submit the survey. Your input is hugely appreciated, and you guys are impossibly awesome for helping us make NAG the best gaming magazine it can be. We <3 you big time.

Hearty congratulations go to Ruan Botha from Umhlali, who walked away with first prize. Maximum congratulations to these five runners-up as well:

  • Teboho Lebusa from Randlespark
  • Ryan Clingman (area not known as yet)
  • Jethro Thysse from Kempton Park
  • Jan-Willem from Bellville
  • Aaron Nicolson (area not known as yet)

 

To the winners: be sure to keep an eye on your email for delivery details.

Posted by Dane Remendes Apr 19, 2012
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Win: a copy of Immortals on DVD

It’s time for another opportunity to get your hands on cool things without actually forking over any pesky moneys for them. And this time, you might not even get arrested for it! Yay!

Thanks to our good buddies over at Nu Metro Home Entertainment, we’ve got ten copies of Immortals (which is basically God of War: The Movie – which leads me to leave this here) on DVD to give away. All you need to do is leave us a comment below to get yourself in the draw to snag one of ‘em.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Apr 19, 2012
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Prototype 2 goes live action

Activision’s marketing machine powers onwards as we near the release of helicopter-hating open-world action title Prototype 2, due out on the 24th of April on Xbox 360 and PS3. There’s now a live-action short film thingy, every bit as ludicrously over the top as the game itself.

New protagonist James Heller’s tragedy-fueled motivation gets some spotlight, and it really makes me hopeful that Prototype 2‘s story will be more than just an excuse to punch things with meaty hammer-hands and Hulk-smash tanks with their own turrets. Former protagonist Alex Mercer’s in there as well, claws and all. And… well, yeah: just go watch it for yourself. It’s beyond the break.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Apr 16, 2012
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Facebook competitions: we have three of them!

Right now, we’re running three lovely Facebook competitions, each one filled with delightfully free stuff for you to get your hands on.

First up, we’ve got five R1,000 vouchers from kalahari.com, redeemable on any gaming merchandise. Next up is your choice of either the NAG box(es) of crap (which is made up of a whole lot of cool, interesting, occasionally broken but always awesome stuff that we’ve been piling up here at NAG – it’s basically a mountain of free stuff), or a Frontosa gaming rig valued at R22,000. Finally, we’ve got a brilliant Star Wars-themed hamper filled with Star Wars-themed goodies that any Star Wars-loving gamer will go bananas for. I want it. I’m considering giving RedTide one of my kidneys in exchange for its delicious Star Wars goodness.

To discover more and to place yourself in the running to win one (or possibly all, if you have an incredible lucky streak) of these fantastic prizes, simply click on this here link and check them out. Also, below are some images. Click them for bigger.

Posted by Dane Remendes Mar 29, 2012
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Angry people are angry in this Game of Thrones trailer

We’re slightly obsessed with Game of Thrones here in the NAG office. Not all of us have read the novels, but almost all of us have fallen in love with the TV show’s incestuous backstabbing and trickery. We’re weird like that.

With this in mind, we’re cautiously optimistic about the Game of Thrones RPG, in development over at Cyanide (they of Blood Bowl, A Game of Thrones: Genesis and, erm, Pro Cycling Manager fame). That’s mostly because this franchise deserves nothing less than excellence, which it hasn’t really gotten from our favourite form of entertainment, at least not yet. Perhaps this is the game that’ll be worthy of its namesake.

Enter the trailer below, in which people get stabbed in the neck, men slash at each other with swords, angry folks yell angrily at each other and more exciting things happen. Very little sense is made, and as such I’ve no idea what’s going on, but that shouldn’t stop you from giving it a watch.

Go on then.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Mar 29, 2012
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Get your Max Payne 3 multiplayer footage right here

As part of their “Design and Technology Series,” Rockstar has released footage of Max Payne 3‘s multiplayer action in motion. It’s packed with explosions, a steady stream of bullets (in slow motion, obviously) and other action-y, shooter-type stuff – but it’s also interspersed with knowledge bombs revealing how Rockstar managed to successfully integrate the Bullet Time mechanic into the game’s multiplayer, as well as two of the game modes featured in the game.

Honestly, it looks brilliant. The last game I can remember that successfully shoved a slow-mo mechanic into its multiplayer component was F.E.A.R., and that was an absolute blast. It looks to be even better implemented here, with only players in your line of sight entering Bullet Time alongside you whenever you use it. See for yourself below the break. And don’t forget to pick up NAG‘s April issue, where we’ve written words about our impressions of the game after getting some hands-on time with it. The digital edition of our April issue is over on Zinio right now.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Mar 29, 2012
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Kraken good rum: a bit o’ fresh Risen 2 footage

I haven’t played Risen. Not because I didn’t want to, mind you: there was just no time to spend on it and it just slipped by, not really doing anything that would’ve forced me to pay attention to it. I know people who have dipped into its role-playing depths, however, and seemed to enjoy its buggy RPG charms and apparent quirkiness.

Risen 2: Dark Waters wants the pirate’s life, and it looks to be doing a good job of it as well, if the trailer below is any indication. It’s filled with Krakens and rum and ships and cannons and cutlass waving and other pirate-type stuff that’s important for any game that goes about labelling itself as a “pirate RPG.” There’s talk of destiny and hope and all that jazz in there as well, so there’s that. It’s actually looking quite good. Very, very pretty too. I reckon I’ll have to force myself to pay some real attention to this one when it comes out in April/May. Here, have a look at the official site.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Mar 27, 2012
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