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.

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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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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 24^th of November.

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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 27^th of October.

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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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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 25^th of August.

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RAGE!!! No, not that really awesome gaming event (:O) that we run, but the game currently in development by the masters of first-person shooters – id Software. It graces our cover this issue and because of that, you can expect to find words about the game inside our fine magazine. But wait, there’s more! We’re packed full of gaming goodness this month, with previews on Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, Hitman: Absolution, BioShock Infinite, Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, and more! Our reviews for this month include the electrifying inFAMOUS 2, the mighty Red Faction: Armageddon, the nippy DiRT 3, the hack-‘n’-slashy Dungeon Siege III, and more.

Console and PC gamers alike will enjoy our gigantic gaming headset roundup, and our hardware reviews include the Gainward GTX 560 Ti Phantom, the GIGABYTE Z68XP-UD3-iSSD (that’s right – we said SSD), and we welcome a new video card to our Dream Machine – the MSI GTX580 Lightning, as well as a dominating new SSD – the OCZ Vertex 3 240GB.

You can expect to find the August issue of NAG on shelf this Thursday, the 28^th of July.

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