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Cooler Master Introduces the V8 ACE 3DHP, a Single-Tower Air Cooler Built for Dual-Tower Performance

NAGBot 3000 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:47:48 +0000

Cooler Master, a global leader in PC components and thermal management solutions, has launched the V8 ACE 3DHP, its flagship single-tower CPU air cooler built around Cooler Master’s patented 3D Heat Pipe technology. Designed for high-performance processors, premium workstations, gaming systems, 3D rendering, video production, and AI development workloads, the V8 ACE 3DHP brings a new heat pipe architecture to desktop air cooling. Cybenetics, an independent hardware testing and certification lab, has added third-party validation to Cooler Master’s single-tower cooling […]

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The NAG Friday Wishlist Sale: More Writers, More Platforms, More Questionable Decisions

Arielle Pieterse — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:17:02 +0000

Steam sales are dangerous enough when only Cody and I are involved. Every discount becomes an excuse, every purchase becomes “basically free”, and every wishlist is treated less like a carefully curated collection and more like a digital cry for help. But this week, we’re expanding the battlefield. The NAG Friday Wishlist Sale is no longer confined to Steam, because some of us have wandered into our PlayStation wishlists too. More importantly, Cody and I have invited several of the […]

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The Ultimate Upgrade Cheat Code? How South African Gamers are Getting Free Steam Vouchers and Gear This Week!

NAGBot 3000 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:13:31 +0000

Let’s be honest: your current gaming setup could use a serious glow-up. Whether you’re struggling with laggy frame rates in Counter-Strike 2, or your current mouse pad has seen far better days, Acer Africa just dropped the ultimate solution. Starting 16 July 2026, Acer is launching a massive nationwide promotion that gives you a double reward bundle just for upgrading your rig. If you buy a qualifying Nitro or Predator gaming laptop before 31 December 2026, you’ll instantly unlock up […]

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Busting My Backlog: Pokémon Leaf Green

Cody Nery Thomson — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:26:56 +0000

Welcome to the first episode of Busting My Backlog, where I give myself one week to get as close to the end of a game that’s been sitting in my backlog for longer than I should admit. At the end of the week, I’ll write up my thoughts and decide whether the game is worth playing or not by ranking it into the following categories: 1. Buyer’s Remorse Loading (Don’t buy this game, and if you already have, as I […]

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First Impressions: Imprinted – The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music

BigMacDaddy — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:20:24 +0000

Do you hear voices in your head? Do they counsel you? Do they understand? If you are, in fact, not Randy Orton, then you may have been playing Imprinted as I have. The game is the embodiment of listening to your tannie’s records backwards or being convinced you heard a noise in the middle of the bush when your friends didn’t. You are Vincent Brandt, a down-on-his-luck guy who cleans up audio by day and makes music by night. The […]

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Five Best Dungeon Crawler Board Games for Your Next Tabletop Adventure

Arielle Pieterse — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:02:06 +0000

There are few tabletop experiences quite as satisfying as gathering a group of friends, choosing a hero and voluntarily marching into a dark hole filled with monsters, traps and an unreasonable number of locked treasure chests. The best dungeon-crawler board games capture everything we love about video game RPGs and squeeze it onto the table. There are characters to develop, weapons to collect, terrible tactical decisions to regret, and bosses seemingly designed to destroy both your party and your friendships. […]

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God of War Sons of Sparta Review: Even Kratos Couldn’t Save Me From Boredom

Arielle Pieterse — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:31:47 +0000

Some bad games make you angry, looking at you, Silent Hill F. They follow you around after the credits, forcing you to replay every irritating mechanic and baffling design decision in your head. You complain about them to friends, and if you’re me, you write entire reviews about where they went wrong, remember The Lord of the Rings: Gollum? Anyway, the point is that these games leave a mark, even when that mark is shaped like a controller embedded in […]

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Throwback Thursday: Praise Be To The Panels – Cult Of The Lamb Comic

Arielle Pieterse — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:19:01 +0000

This article was originally published in NAG Annual Edition 2025 and is now available online for the first time. While some details may have changed since its original publication, all information was accurate at the time of writing. Praise be, little lambs, for the gospel of gaming has found its way to the comic shelves. Cult of the Lamb was always more than just a roguelike with a penchant for blood rituals and questionable cooking; it was a darkly adorable […]

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Wishlist Wednesday: Monsters, Multiplayer Mayhem, Penguin Rescues And Pixel Plants

Arielle Pieterse — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:54:00 +0000

Some weeks, my wishlist develops a clear and respectable theme. Other weeks, it looks like I ran through the internet with a shopping trolley and grabbed everything that made my brain produce even the faintest spark of serotonin. This is one of those other weeks. For this edition of Wishlist Wednesday, I’ve found myself obsessing over a pixel-art MMO that combines roguelite dungeons with farming, the next nightmarish chapter in the Something Is Killing the Children universe, a board game […]

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Asus ExpertBook Ultra Review: Small, Light, Gameable

Regardt van der Berg — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:05:09 +0000

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been using the Asus ExpertBook Ultra as my daily notebook, and it’s a lot more capable than its thin business shell suggests. This is the kind of machine that Asus is aiming at professionals, entrepreneurs, and travelling content creators. For me though, spending time with it across writing, editing, dev work, rendering, benchmarks, and a bit of gaming, the ExpertBook Ultra feels less like a corporate laptop and more like a proper ultrathin that […]

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