New Age Gaming

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New Age Gaming
New Age Gaming, cover dated January 2007
Editor	Michael James
Categories	Computer magazine
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	25,000
First Issue	1998
Company	Tide Media
Country	South Africa
Language	English
Website	www.nag.co.za/
ISSN	1028-0537

New Age Gaming (NAG) is a South African gaming magazine first published in 1998 by ITV Media. It is now published by Tide Media, who are also publishers of SA Computer Magazine (SACM). NAG focuses on gaming on various 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. 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.

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 "Lost & Found", where a tiny picture of the Dharma sign is hidden or incorporated into another image in the magazine, and readers having to search for it, "Letter of the moment" 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 "caption of the month", where an image is printed with a bad caption and the readers encouraged to devise a better (more 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^{[citation needed]}.

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