December 28th, 1979. Somewhere south of LA, Kyle Hyde walks into Hotel Dusk, a  shabby, unobtrusively disreputable establishment off the 101. Hyde used to be a cop, but now he’s an itinerant salesman for Red Crown, shucking novelty crap from one dusty town to the next. Sometimes he’ll do a job off the books for [...]

Love it or hate it, the popular Warcraft III map (or mod, as some like to call it) Defense of the Ancients (DotA), is a classy game. It combines tactical strategy with elements of RPG and arena-style team-based gameplay to deliver what’s ultimately a very good game. It should come as no surprise, then, that [...]

When it comes to game development, people frequently approach me with the question, “HAY DOOD! Where do you hang out? Where do you get info on stuffs?”
The answer to that is fairly in-depth. First of all, because I’m an awesome game dev journalist (who would never, ever speak wrongly of local developers Luma Arcade or [...]

Everyone wants a high-end system, right? Unfortunately, they require tons of power to run, and those systems are consuming more and more energy, thereby increasing the need for things such as coal-derived electricity and fossil fuels. Owners of such systems are also spending a large amount of money per year (which they don’t need to [...]

Our June issue is ready to hit the shelves and should appear in stores on Thursday the 28th of May (subscribers may receive it sooner). We’ve got a monstrous, ten page Modern Warfare 2 preview packed with exclusive info and screenshots, hands-on previews of Ghostbusters, Anno 1404 and Call of Jaurez: Bound in Blood and [...]

“Where are all the South African game dev studios?” we hear you cry. “Surely if we claim to have potential, there must be a company or two out there doing some cool stuff?”
Cease your lamentations, little one. The fairy godmother has just landed on your shoulder, sprinkled some generic magical powder over your face, and [...]

If ever there was a game designed almost solely to be appreciated by long-time gamers who’ve been at it since damn near the beginning, it’s Eat Lead: The Return of Matt Hazard. This game is filled with so many industry inside jokes, ripoffs, and pop-culture references from the last thirty years, that someone whose first [...]

Welcome back to NAG Online, adventurer! You are currently standing in an open meadow dotted with a few trees. To the north lies a river and page header. There is an article on adventure gaming here, as well as a small note tacked to a nearby stump.
>READ NOTE
The note explains your current situation: a few [...]

Two things to mention here. First – after a minor delay we’ve selected and contacted all the winners for our Godfather II competition. Congratulations are in order for:
Gunter Keller of Aston Manor
Robin de Villiers of Nigel
Paul Tree of Brackendowns
Johan Mynhardt of Bedfordview
Laurence da Silva of Somerset West
We hope you enjoy your prizes folks!
Our next competition [...]

So you got a flat tire, missed a meeting, dropped your cellphone in your coffee, and the dog peed on the rug. Betcha think you had a bad day, huh? Well, take solace from the fact that it’s nothing compared to the day Raymond Bryce is having…
Disaster: Day of Crisis is a survival action game [...]

R2 a megabyte! That’s how much you pay when you go out of bundle (OOB) using 3G (on MTN and Vodacom). That’s R2048 a gig! I like buying 10 megabyte bundles thinking I’m getting a good deal – “only” R1024 a gig. On ADSL you can get R60 a gig and that’s shaped. For uncapped [...]

Earth, the future. Well, 25 years from now. Obviously it’s one of those bleak, shellshocked, dystopian futures, because if video games have taught us anything (besides how to kill people), it’s that the future will be bleak, shellshocked, and totally dystopian. Anyway, this guy whose name (Colonel Klein) bears absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to someone [...]

If you’re in the market for a netbook, chances are you’ve considered the most important aspects when shopping in this sector – portability and connectivity. After all, a netbook is little more than a glorified mobile Web browser that has office productivity abilities thrown in. It’s important, then, when you’re spending well into the upper [...]

It’s no secret that avid gamers are somewhat sceptical of games created around licensed properties, particularly big Hollywood movies, and there’s good reason for that. However, it’s starting to become the norm to assume that when developer Starbreeze Studios is at the helm, licensed games tend to turn out pretty damn good.
This might be because, [...]