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.

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It’s our birthday, and everyone gets cake*! For 14 years, NAG has been dedicated to bringing you, dearest readers, the best that this glorious gaming life has to offer: technology, games and all the gloriously random stuff in between. And, if we do say so ourselves, the years have been mighty kind to us. We’re growing ever more handsome as we power onwards.

Head beyond the break to marvel at our super-shiny cover and to get hold of the contents PDF.

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All our March cover really serves to do is remind us (and possibly you as well) that, even though it’s only March, we could all already do with another vacation. Preferably minus the blood-covered knives and angry men with loud guns. Honestly though, we’ll take anything. Because desperation.

The balance has flipped from reviews to previews, and we go a bit mad with close on a million previews and features to make up for our piddly number of reviews. Let’s get tentacled in The Darkness II, use our heads in NeverDead, memorise some needlessly obtuse combos in The King of Fighters XIII Deluxe Edition and use gyro-assisted aiming on a train in Resident Evil: Revelations. For previews, we dig up all the info we could find on upcoming action RPG Torchlight “OMG my puppy sells thing for me adorable!” II, feel the Left 4 Dead in Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City and get our survival on in I Am Alive. The Last of Us is Naughty Dog meets I Am Legend, and Kinect Star Wars is George Lucas meets mo’ money. Finally, Alan Wake demands more of your attention in his American Nightmare.

Hardware features some heavy hitters in the form of stuff like Cooler Master’s wonderful COSMOS II and GIGABYTE’s X79-UD7 motherboard (successor to the excellent X58-OC). ASUS melts our faces with their Radeon HD7970 as our Dream Machine is introduced to a number of new suitors.

Don’t forget our eye-popping cover feature on Far Cry 3, which is slightly less brown and a lot more WTF. All this and more awaits you in our March issue, which you’ll be able to get your hands on this Thursday, the 23rd of February.

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2012 is officially in full swing, and we’d best cram in as much awesomeness as possible before the world goes pop. With that in mind, we present the February issue of NAG, packed full of gaming deliciousness and random thingamajigs sure to delight and surprise. Probably.

We’re once again rolling review-heavy, because of the holiday backlog. So many games, so little time! Previews come in the form of the revitalised SSX and a new developer’s take on Sly Cooper. Reviews include such wonders as the dildo-sporting Saints Row: The Third and the long-awaited Wii-exclusive return of Link in The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. Management buffs can get their futuristic kicks out of our Anno 2070 review, while we find out if Need for Speed: The Run can successfully make us believe that scripted events belong in a racer. Trine 2 has us in awe of its sheer beauty, and The Lord of the Rings: War in the North tells the familiar tale from a different perspective.

Hardware aficionados: check out our healthy hardware section. Samsung’s Series 7 gaming notebook aims to wow us. We take a look at another brilliantly built gaming PC from Evetech. ASUS hopes to prove that 3D can be more than a gimmick with their VG278H LED 3D monitor.

The February issue of NAG will magically appear in a store near you this Thursday, the 26th of January.

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It’s a new month, it’s a new NAG, and we worked extra hard to make sure that you get this magazine a whole week earlier –  just in time to save you from boredom on your holiday in the middle of nowhere. As our cover tells, we have some incredible coverage to go along with that incredible artwork from The Darkness II, as well as a couple (literally a couple) more previews to let you know what’s ahead in the world of gaming.

But you want something to play now, damnit, and that’s perfectly fair. To help you choose which games deserve to consume your valuable holiday hours, we review Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Minecraft, Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, Rayman Origins, Super Mario 3D Land and many more!

Tech junkies also need something to do during the next few weeks, so we take an in-depth look at the Intel Core i7 3960X, the ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, the Roccat Kova[+], ECS X79R-AX and loads more hardware.

You’ll find the January 2012 issue of NAG on shelves from tomorrow, the 22^nd of December.

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