SOUTH AFRICA’S LEADING GAMING, COMPUTER & TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE Vol. 16 Issue FIVE PC / PLAYSTATION / XBOXXBOX / NINTENDNINTENDOO E3 SUPPLEMENT 32 pages cover all the new games for the next year and beyond NEXT GENERATION TRICK SHOT E3 PREVIEWS 8 INCLUDING Titanfall Command & Conquer The Evil Within Mad Max Murdered: Soul Suspect Watch Dogs E3 supplement brought to you by Editor Michael “RedTide“ James [email protected] Contents Assistant editor Geoff “GeometriX“ Burrows Regulars Staff writer 8 Ed’s Note Dane “Barkskin “ Remendes 10 Inbox Features 14 Bytes Contributing editor Lauren “Guardi3n “ Das Neves 53 home_coded 28 INTO THE PIXEL 2013 64 Everything Else Technical writer Essence of the art Neo “ShockG“ Sibeko Every year at E3, striking works of art from around the video game world are selected to be displayed in all International correspondent Opinion their glory at the Into the Pixel exhibit. This year’s E3 Miktar “Miktar” Dracon 14 I, Gamer saw the tenth anniversary of the renowned exhibition, and it did not disappoint. We’ve collected all the 16 The Game Stalker Contributors featured artworks within the pages of this magazine Rodain “Nandrew” Joubert 18 The Indie Investigator for you to marvel at. Walt “Shryke” Pretorius 20 Miktar’s Meanderings Miklós “Mikit0707 “ Szecsei 69 Hardwired Pippa “UnexpectedGirl” Tshabalala 98 Game Over 44 FIFA 14 Tarryn “Azimuth “ Van Der Byl Soccer! Football! UNICORN JUGGLING! All of these Adam “Madman” Liebman things are deemed incredibly important by the Wesley “Cataclysm” Fick Previews Council of Elders, and so we embarked on a quest to Art director 34 Watch_Dogs discover more. Sadly, our team of unicorn analysts did Chris “SAVAGE“ Savides 36 Titanfall not return. But we gleaned much knowledge on the next-gen future of the absurdly popular FIFA series of 37 The Evil Within football sims. Photography 38 Mad Max Chris “SAVAGE“ Savides Dreamstime.com 39 Command & Conquer Fotolia.com 40 Murdered: Soul Suspect 84 COMPUTEX 2013 42 Puppeteer / The Elder If you’reyou re a fan of super-coolsuper-cool gadgetsgadgets,, peripherals and Sales executives ScrollsScrolls OOnlinenline anyany other formform ofof hardware, then chances are that Cheryl “Cleona“ Harris / [email protected] you’veyou’ve heard of CComputexomputex and all the technologicaltechnological +27 72 322 9875 wizardrywizardry itit so proudlyproudly puts on parade.parade. AsAs NNeoeo expexplains,lains, it’sit’s like E3 for hardware. We were rirightght there, in Martin Green Reviewsviews amongst the madness, and we’rewe’re ready to give a great 083 445 0371 52 Reviews:Reviews: IntIntroductionroduction bigbig report on it.it. 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Send mail to letters@ they’ve let us down two years in a cycle I’ve been exposed to three nag.co.za and make me proud. row and didn’t seem very sorry the different instances where non-gamers last time they screwed up. The new have dipped a toe in the gaming DVD ticketing solution is www.itickets. pond. Perhaps it’s E3 clouding the Over the last few months, good co.za, the downside is that they issue; when there’s so much gaming game demos have become scarce in don’t have a physical presence – so goodness in one hit you tend to see the wild. Game companies are no unfortunately there are no stores gaming everywhere. I’ll list the three longer happy to just release a demo you can walk into so ticket sales are examples quick. This was going to be on the Internet and let everyone only online. For those of you who longer but I wrote the DVD and NAG download it and play it and have can’t buy stuff online for whatever LAN bits fi rst and now I’m only left fun and move on. These days it must reason we are truly sorry. They do with this much space. Boo. Here they be linked to a sale, with DLC and have a phone-in option but it will are: 1) A woman that knows nothing special offers and so on. Steam is still mean having to give them your about games paging through NAG. I’ll software that everyone should have credit card info telephonically. be honest, this was only because of the on their computers by now. You We’re also limiting the amount food feature in there, but it’s a start, can’t play Call of Duty: Black Ops of tickets you can buy to two per it’s something – I told her we’re doing 2 or Team Fortress 2 or anything person. Sadly, circumstances have shoes next month. 2) A dad that read really without Steam (except EA forced this option as there are many something about Minecraft in Time games). Additionally everyone in low life opportunists who buy stacks magazine and started to play games gaming therefore needs some kind of tickets and then sell them at a with his son (check the letters page). of Internet (capped or uncapped) to higher price to desperate people. 3) A girlfriend who wrote to me asking play anything. So with all this in Bottom line: never buy scalped what “action shooter person game” mind we’ve decided to embrace the tickets from anyone ever because she could buy for her boyfriend that reality and package Steam demos you just mess it up for everyone else they could play together and that he for you to enjoy. Make sure you read in the long run. That’s about it. More would like. I suggested Borderlands the instructions. Please do give us information can be found on our 2. I’m waiting for the result. All these feedback about this. I don’t know website and Facebook page. people that are not gamers all getting any better way to do this. This issue was a long tough haul to into gaming just makes me happy in put together, so if you’re looking for us my heart. Here’s some easy homework. NAG LAN we’ll be in a heap on the fl oor crying Don’t worry, I’ll never check that you did Some points about the NAG LAN for our mommies. it because don’t really care and I want to @ rAge this year: tickets will only Summer is coming, look sharp. be like the cool substitution teacher that go on sale 31 August 2013 at 09h00 - RedTide everyone loves. This month go out there and not the first week in August. Editor 8 August 2013 www.nag.co.za ~Inbox~ INBox [email protected] LETTER OF THE MONTH *Disclaimer: Most of the letters sent to this fi ne publication are printed more or less The ‘Letter of the Month’ prize is verbatim (that means “we don’t edit or fi x them” for you slow kids at the back), so ignore sponsored by the good folks at any spelling or grammatical errors. It’s not us… it’s you. Megarom. The winner receives two games for coming up with the most inspired bit of wisdom of cleverness. Note: You can’t Letter of the Month August 2013 change the games or the platform they come on. From: Johan months’ Time magazine. In it 64 – and then later helped me HARD TECHNICAL STUFF Subject: Minecraft there is article about Minecraft get a bank loan for my Amiga LAND MAIL: P.O. Box 237, Minecraft, this beast that has which inspired my dad to fi nd 500 at the tender age of 15. Olivedale, 2158 kind of taken over the gaming out more about this game with Remember, R4,500 back in BETTER MAIL: [email protected] industry, surprised me today.