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NAG December 2011 issue

Ho ho ho or whichever sound you most associate with this time of year. It’s our December issue and that means it’s time to share with and care for you, our dear readers, in the form of an extra 16 pages of fabulous content. We’re feature-packed this issue, starting with our cover story that, er, covers all there is to know about Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6: Patriots. We also spend some time explaining how everything fits together in the Legend of Zelda timeline; we help you (or your loved ones) decide on some Christmas/etc gifts; we report back on all things weird and wonderful at BlizzCon 2011; and we spend some time chatting to important people at UbiWorkshop.

If you like previews, then we’re sorry, there’s just a single one this month, but we’ve got a boat load of reviews that we’re sure will make up for it, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, Rage, Batman: Arkhym City, Forza Motorsport 4, FIFA 12, X-Men Destiny and many more.

Our hardware pages this month include a detailed look at the AMD FX-8150 CPU, the astounding ASUS Xonar Essence One, the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper2, the Samsung Galaxy S II, and much more.

You’ll find the December issue of NAG on store shelves this Thursday, the 24th of November.

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Nov 22, 2011
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Win! Assassin’s Creed: Revelations hamper

With Assassin’s Creed: Revelations almost here, we thought it’d be a great idea to team up with Megarom Interactive and Ubisoft South Africa to give away a fantastic hamper for the game. Here’s what’s inside:

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Nov 14, 2011
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Win! One of two WRC 2 hampers

 

Competitions! They’re the lifeblood of society. Mostly because everybody loves free sh*t.

Ster Kinekor Entertainment, distributors of WRC 2 (the official videogame of the 2011 World Rally Championship), would like to offer you, dearest reader, the opportunity to win one of two WRC 2 (official site) hampers, each of which comes packing:

  • A copy of the game on your choice of platform (PC, 360 or PS3)
  • A super-awesome WRC 2 T-shirt
  • A windscreen visor (car not included)
  • A steering wheel grip (see above)

Now, as much as we’d love to actually show you the contents of these hampers, we’ve not been provided images. But – it’s free! All you have to do to win one of these hampers is leave a comment (the content of which is up to you) below. The competition will end on the 16th of November and the winners will be randomly selected thereafter, but you’ll be awarded bonus Life Points if you make your comment as interesting/outrageous/witty as possible.

As always, this competition is open to South African residents only.

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Posted by Dane Remendes Nov 02, 2011
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NAG November 2011 issue

Oh, look, it’s Nathan Drake, star of the hit gaming series Uncharted. He sure is on our cover, jumping over a railing with one hand while people shoot bullets at him while it’s raining. Boy’s gonna twist up his ankle if he’s not careful. Tsk tsk. But anyway, he’s there, and that means that we have a gigantic (AKA six page) feature on the upcoming Uncharted 3, Drake’s Deception. We also have a couple of other super interesting features, including a look into the history of machinima, as well as the long-overdue Nintendo 3DS super feature with game reviews and such things.

Reviews! We have those too, including Dead Island, Gears of War 3, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, F1 2011, Hard Reset and more! Yay!

Hardware! That is also a thing we have! We review the ASUS ROG MARS II, the Toshiba Qosmio F750 3D, the AOC e2352PHZ 3D monitor, Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD, Sony Xperia PLAY and even more! Double yay!

You’ll be able to find this fantastic November issue of NAG on shelf this Thursday, the 27th of October.

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Oct 24, 2011
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Huge rAge 2011 gallery

Did you miss this year’s rAge expo? Do you cry yourself to sleep at night because you have no idea what went down during the show? Because you have no idea what it looked like? Well you’re in luck, because here are sixty photos from the event:

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Oct 05, 2011
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All about this year’s rAge

This weekend is rAge – the biggest gaming and technology expo in the country. Maybe you’ve heard of it? rAge is a NAG-run expo that gives attendees the chance to play the latest games, get their hands on upcoming titles, buy products from retailers at amazing prices and even get a chance to meet with a few real game developers – both local and international.

Throughout the show, be sure to stay tuned to NAG Online for all the latest developments and insight into the gaming industry. We’ll be posting news, interviews, photos and more!

Here’s a breakdown of what you can expect at this year’s rAge:

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Sep 28, 2011
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NAG October 2011 issue

It’s yellow! So very yellow, but not like that kind of snow that you shouldn’t eat, this is awesome yellow. Mustard, if you will, and, as anyone who’s ever eaten good mustard can tell you, mustard yellow is the best yellow. The bold, not-at-all-banana-inspired cover this month is, of course, in honour of our seven-page Borderlands 2 feature that dominates the hallowed insides of NAG. We also have a feature of our impressions of the Call of Duty XP Event held in a desert somewhere in the US, and tech enthusiasts can look forward to our two hardware features: 4-way SSD shootout and Alienware M17x R3 vs. MSI GT780.

Other previews include our hands-on impressions of StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, Gotham City Imposters, Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes and many more. Of course, we spent some time playing review games this month, including Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Resistance 3, F.E.A.R. 3, Driver: San Francisco and more!

Some of our other hardware coverage includes a look at BlackBerry’s PlayBook, the HTC EVO 3D, EVGA Z68FTW, Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 and many more fascinating pieces of technology.

You can expect to find the October issue of NAG on shelf this Thursday, the 29th of September.

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Sep 27, 2011
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Tech corner: WebOS is not dead!

Yes yes, the evidence points to the contrary. I know, having the CEO of a multi-billion-dollar company currently sitting at the top of the consumer computing industry declare that a very valuable asset they just bought out for $1.2 billion the other day is now going to be trashed is pretty much the nail in the coffin for most people. I, on the other hand, haven’t been able to snag an HP Touchpad for $100 and firmly believe that WeboS will stay alive and HP is just pulling your socks.

Let’s rewind to the beginning in April last year, when HP had just bought the defunct Palm OS and announced that they would be re-entering the mobile and tablet market with a new product line that would knock the socks off iOS and the then-unfinished Windows Phone. HP bought out Treo and Handspring for pocket change, and everyone everywhere began to expect good things. Fast-forward to MWC 2011 in February, the ill-fated month for Nokia’s Symbian OS, and WebOS shone like a brightly polished gem. The UI was well-thought out, worked smoothly, showed promise and above all enabled users to switch comfortably between the Touchpad and HP’s companion devices, the HP Veer and Pre 3, both stunning handsets in their own right and the Veer in particular a definate inspiration for the HTC Cha Cha.

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Posted by Wesley Sep 26, 2011
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Bitch-slapped: I HAET UR FAVRITE GAEM LOL!!!1

“Video gaming.” It’s a phrase that’s tripped over the murky precipice of obscurity and into the neon-lit chasm of mainstream culture, but quite in spite of its new-found distinction – or perhaps by way of its downward vector – it’s not quite managed to discard some of its more contemptible hangers-on.

More simply (or more obviously, perhaps, because it’s what I was really getting at), if that precipice were a sphincter, and the chasm a toilet bowl, video gaming would be the clotted skidmark all the way down, before slithering – behemoth-like, and smelling of murder – into the waters below*.

It’s the console wars. It’s the PC Gaming Defence Force. It’s the cheating. It’s the racism, the misogyny, and the homophobia. It’s piracy, and the vapid proselytising and self-entitlement that comes with it. It’s the entire MOBA community. It’s the apocalyptic pronouncements about the advent of so-called “casual” gaming, like the whole industry didn’t actually start with games about dots blasting dots with dots or something.

"Do you smell something?"

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Posted by Tarryn van der Byl Sep 06, 2011
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NAG September 2011 issue

After a decade of waiting, it’s finally time for us to have a Diablo III cover. To go along with that, we have thousands of words of info on the game, as well as a look at what you can expect at rAge 2011. If you need more reasons to buy this issue of NAG, we review Shadows of the Damned, Call of Juarez: The Cartel, From Dust, Child of Eden, and more; and we preview Bodycount, Lollipop Chainsaw, Ninja Gaiden III and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Our hardware coverage is dominated by two shootouts: AMD Llano vs. Intel Sandy Bridge, and ASUS Crosshair V Formula vs. GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7. We also take a look at the ASUS MATRIX GTX580 Platinum, the ASUS G74SX, the NOCTUA NH-D14 CPU cooler and more.

The September issue of NAG is on shelf from today, the 25th of August.

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Posted by Geoff Burrows Aug 25, 2011
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