New Age Gaming (magazine)

New Age Gaming (NAG) is a South African gaming magazine first published in 1998 by Replay ITV Media. NAG focuses on gaming on various platforms including PC, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Mobile, Sony PSP and Playstation 2. The magazine typically has up to 148 pages featuring game reviews and previews, hardware reviews and previews, and various gaming and gaming-lifestyle related articles.

NAG also includes a free DVD(CDs in older versions) with every purchase. The DVD usually contains videos, game demos, utilities, patches and drivers. Another regular feature on the NAG DVD is the 'virtual' Anime Magazine; LO Magazine, distributed in PDF format.

NAG Magazine takes a humorous and sarcastic tone in its writings. It usually caters for CASUAL gamers as well as having in-depth reviews of games and hardware that satisfies the more hardcore gamer. The contributors employ a relaxed attitude to the magazine and often are humorously rude to the other writers.

Regular competitions are run, usually with a game or hardware as the prize. Some of the competitions are "Badger Hunt", where a tiny picture of a badger is hidden or incorporated into another image in the magazine, and readers having to search for it, "the star letter" is a competition where the reader is encouraged to send in a smart, often humorous letter, matching the topic of the month. Also, there is "Guess the caption", where an uncaptioned image is printed and the readers encouraged to devise a humorous caption for it.

NAG Magazine has been influential in promoting multiplayer gaming in South Africa, with regular event coverage, event notification and player InterViews in the magazine .

External links

• New Age Gaming - Official site and Forum.