It’s that time of the year again – E3. Well, you Internet people are probably done with this by now, but we’re just getting started. This issue includes tons of news from the Electronic Entertainment Expo, loads of reviews and a couple of big, fancy features. What features, you ask? Well, we’ve got five pages dedicated to Battlefield 3. We also put on our artistic shoes and take a look at Into the Pixel 2011′s award winners, and take an in-depth look at the PlayStation Vita. Our reviews include everything you’ve been waiting for: L.A. Noire, The Witcher 2, Brink, Duke Nukem Forever, Darkspore, Operation Flashpoint: Red River, and more. Hardware enthusiasts can get tucked into our reviews of the ASUS P8Z68-V PRO, Intel’s new 5120 120GB SSD, the ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX and GIGABYTE’s insane X58A-OC.

You can expect to find the July issue of NAG on shelf this Thursday, the 30th of June.

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I’m Batman! Actually, no, that’s not true, but that’s what the angry-looking guy on our cover would say if you asked him his name, or if he suddenly descended on you from an overhang and you were like, “OMG what is that?” Scene = set. Right. In case you didn’t realise, this month’s cover feature is dedicated to Batman: Arkham City, but there’s plenty more for you to read in this issue of NAG. We get hands-on with Dues Ex: Human Revolution, Alice: Madness Returns, Dungeon Siege III and more. In our reviews section, we examine Portal 2, Mortal Kombat, Shift 2: Unleashed, MotorStorm: Apocalypse and LEGO Star Wars III: The Clone Wars, as well as many more.

Those of you who are as interested in clock speeds and rendering pipelines as video games will on-doubt enjoy our mega VGA Buyers Guide, as well as our reviews of the ASUS NC1, Kingston HyperX LoVo 1800C9, GIGABYTE GTX 580 Super Overclock, and more.

You’ll find the June issue of NAG on store shelves on Thursday the 26th of May.

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Lara Croft is on the cover, we promise! While that should be enough to satisfy 90% of our readers, we’ve decided to also include other stuff in the magazine. As well as our cracking preview complete with two (2!) whole interviews about our favourite female adventurer, we also take a good, hard look at upcoming games Saints Row: The Third, Red Faction Armageddon, Dead Island and Portal 2 (okay, okay, we ran a little late with that one). Our reviews are so full of win that you’ll think you’ve accidentally picked up Charlie Sheen’s Guide to Tiger Blood, as we examine Crysis 2, Dragon Age II, Homefront, Yakuza 4, de Blob 2 and many more! Wow!

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Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday to us! Happy birthday dear NAAAAaaaaAAAAAAAAAAG. Happy birthday to us! This month we’re older, wiser, smarter, better and definitely sexier thanks to our annual tradition of redesigning the layout every year (you did notice that, right?) If you didn’t before, you definitely will now, because I’ve just told you about it.

To celebrate our birthday issue, we’ve packed in enough awesome content to impress even the Duke, who features about seventy-three times in this magazine. We introduce a couple of new regulars (including an opinion column from Pippa Tshabalala) and blast your ear-holes open with a massive speaker roundup. Previews include the intestine-splattering Prototype 2, the spooky Silent Hill: Downpour and a few more. On the reviews front, we’ve got everything you could ever need for this month: Test Drive Unlimited 2, MindJack, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Bulletstorm, Killzone 3, Fight Night Champion and even more! Wow! Gadzooks! Impressive!

Not to forget our hardware nuts, we take a lazy look at the highly-customisable Cyborg R.A.T. 9 mouse; we break our backs trying to carry the Coolermaster HAF-X; we take notice of the Toshiba Qosmio X500 and still cannot believe how long the title GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 560 Ti Super Overclock is.

The April issue of NAG will be on shelf this coming Thursday the 31st.

Unfortunately, the wallpapers will be slightly delayed this month, please check back on Thursday for them.

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It’s our March issue, and that means it’s almost our birthday issue! While it isn’t our birthday issue, the March issue of NAG is still packed with twelve tons of awesome, thanks to the return to our regular page count, which brings us sincere joy; we’re sure it’ll do the same for you. Anyway, this month Geoff hops over to New York to get all the details on THQ’s upcoming Homefront; we send Dane to Spain (actually England, but the rhyming was fun) to find out all about LEGO Pirates of the Caribbean; and Miktar gets his hands dirty with the all-new Tomb Raider. Other previews include Dungeon Siege III, Mortal Kombat and de Blob 2. Our reviews this month are dominated by a mammoth review of Dead Space, and also include Arcania: Gothic 4, LittleBigPlanet 2, Jekyll & Hyde and more.

Hardware enthusiasts can look forward to our coverage of the Intel Core i7 2600K, the ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II, the Palit GTX570 Sonic Platinum, and series 2 of the Dremel DIY department, with Ettienne Venter, as well as much more.

There are also three awesome new wallpapers to be found in our collection here. By request, these new wallpapers are available in 1920×1080, as will all of our new wallpapers from now on.

The March issue of NAG will be on shelves tomorrow, the 24th of February.

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2011 is well on its way down the path of awesome, and we’re kicking things off with maximum cover feature goodness on Crysis 2. It’s also a time for reflection on the last decade of gaming – what rocked, what sucked and what made us cry tears of joy or sadness. And, because life is all about the now, the only other preview we have is Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds.

Speaking of the now, our reviews are full of gooey delight with Gran Turismo 5, God of War: Ghost of Sparta, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Epic Mickey and many more of those titles you’ve been dying to know about. In our hardware section this month, we crunch numbers with the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T, the ridiculously fast OCZ REVODRIVE, the ASUS EAH6950 and the diminutive Alienware M11x, as well as much more.

The February issue of NAG will be on shelf on the 27th of January.

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Ho ho ho and all that stuff – it’s time for the January issue of NAG! No more socks and deodorant packs for you; this holiday issue is filled with stuff you actually want. We’ll give you all the details we possibly can on the upcoming Dead Space 2; we check out The Last Guardian and we’ll tell you what matters in the world of gaming keyboards.

Our reviews are just what you need to convince those gift-givers (possibly yourself) that your Need for Speed is Hotter than ever; that your Brotherhood has been Assassinated; that your Stone is Bloody for the new James Bond; that your Front Mission hasn’t really Evolved; and that your New Vegas hasn’t succumbed to the Fallout just yet. Hey; give me a break; these are my holiday puns. My brain is still on leave.

When you’re done breaking the bank on all the awesome titles available right now, perhaps you’ll need to take out a loan to afford all the fantastic hardware you know you need. We review the Roccat Kone[+], the ASUS ENGTX580, the SAPPHIRE HD 6850 TOXIC Crossfire, the Corsair AX750 and tons more.

If my (currently on-leave) sources are correct, you should expect to see the January issue of NAG on sale on Friday the 24th of Decemeber.

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‘Tis the season to go out and buy stuff, and NAG‘s going to help you decide exactly how you should blow your (or your parents’) year-end bonus. We feature not one but two buyers guides: one to help you choose the ultimate gift for that special person in your life, and another to help you choose the perfect pre-built gaming rig to suit your budget. Our reviews section features the big guns: Call of Duty: Black Ops, Medal of Honour, Fable III, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, F1 2010 and tons more.

Our previews are led by our cover feature of Dragon Age II; we ship off Miktar to find out the latest scoop on Epic Mickey; we poke around inside LittleBigPlanet 2; and put on fresh eyeliner to get backstage with the new Devil May Cry.

Our hardware reviews include the open-air Antec Skeleton, the GIGABYTE GV-R685D5-1GD, the blazing-fast Kingston SSDNow V+ 128, the ASUS EAH 6870 and plenty more.

The December issue of NAG will be on shelf on the 25th of November.

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It’s our November issue! Gran Tursimo 5 has been delayed again but we don’t care because we’ve already had a chance to play it. Read all about our experiences in this month’s cover feature preview. And, just in case you haven’t read enough about this year’s rAge, we’ve thrown in a huge article to get you drooling for next year’s event. For our reviews, we conquer the world with Civilization V; we hack zombies to pieces in Dead Rising 2; we jump around with our monkies in Enslaved; we put Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 up against FIFA 11, and much more.

Do you want hardware? Do you love hardware? So do we! That’s why we have two crazy-filled hardware features: Neo’s epic tales of his trip to the MSI Overclocking Arena, in Taiwan, and a roundup of NVIDIA’s value-segment leader: the GTX460. We also test the Corsair P256 and V256 SSDs, the Antec DF-85 and scream along to the ASUS Xonar Xense.

Be sure to grab your copy of the November issue of NAG in stores from the 28th of October.

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It’s big, it’s badass, it’s our rAge issue and we know you’re going to love it. The October issue of NAG is so full of awesome content that we almost spent more time pulling out stuff and re-arranging pages than we did actually writing them. First, the reviews: we spend an unhealthy amount of time with Halo: Reach; pull a drive-by on Mafia II; get our shaky-cam on with Kane and Lynch 2; sling gooey white stuff at Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions; take to the skies with Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. 2 and many more. That’s cool and stuff, but our previews will knock you senseless: hands-on with Call of Duty: Black Ops; a sneak peak at the real, not fake and totally happening Duke Nukem Forever; a kickabout with FIFA 11; and our super fantastic, built-in gamecom 2010 supplement, which includes Crysis 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, From Dust, Mortal Kombat and many more. On top of all of that, we say goodbye to our zombie column and get stuck into the first part of our StarCraft II strategy guide.

On the hardware front, Neo picks apart a collection of Radeon 5870s; we poke the PlayStation Move and newly-launched Alienware M15x; the ASUS Rampage III Formula and GIGABYTE X58-USB3 get put through their paces; we tackle the Corsair Dominator GT 2000C8; and plenty more.

The October issue will be on sale on Thursday the 30th of September.

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