New Age Gaming

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New Age Gaming (NAG) is a South African gaming magazine, first published in 1998 by EDV Media. It is now published by Tide Media, who are also publishers of SA Computer Magazine (SACM). NAG focuses on various gaming platforms including PC, Xbox, GameCube, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Mobile, Sony PSP and Playstation 2, with more recent additions of the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 and the Nintendo Wii. The magazine typically has up to 194 pages featuring game reviews and previews, hardware reviews and previews, and various gaming, anime and gaming-LifeStyle related articles.

NAG also includes a bonus DVD (CDs in older versions) with every purchase. The DVD usually contains vids, PC game demos, utilities, patches and drivers.

NAG adopts a rather humorous and sarcastic tone in its content, and caters for CASUAL gamers as well as offering in-depth reviews of games and hardware to satisfy the more Hardcore Gamer. The contributors employ a relaxed attitude to the magazine, and are often humorously rude to the other writers.

Regular competitions are run, usually with a game or hardware as the prize. These include Lost & Found, where a tiny picture of the Heroes logo is hidden or incorporated into another image in the magazine, a Letter of the Moment contest, where readers are rewarded for an especially insightful - or stupid - letter, and a Caption of the Month, where readers may submit a game screenshot with a funny caption.

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

NAG is also involved in the highly successful gaming and computer expo known as rAge (radical anime & gaming expo), held annually in Johannesburg. In 2005 and 2006, rAge was attended by the internationally renowned gamer, Fatal1ty.

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