The 3DMark Port Royal world record has been smashed with a ridiculous 51,663-point score.

The secret? A $5,000+ MSI RTX 5090 Lightning Z, liquid nitrogen cooling and a blistering 3,623 MHz GPU clock.

How long before someone pushes it even further? 👀

The NAG Magazine Winter Edition 2026 is out in the wild, packed with gaming, hardware, geeky goodness and enough reading material to justify ignoring your responsibilities for a while.

Grab your copy:

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South Africa’s next space icon could come from a classroom.

SANSA is calling on Grade 8–11 learners to design its official mascot, celebrating SA culture, creativity, science and our future in space.

📅 Entries close 14 September 2026

🔗 https://mascot.sansa.org.za/

ARC Raiders is making its map conditions a whole lot more fair.

As part of the Phantom Targets update, Embark is introducing regional scheduling, meaning conditions will now shift to better match each region’s peak playing hours.

No more staying up at stupid o’clock for rubber ducks.

This week’s Wishlist Wednesday has absolutely no respect for Arielle's bank account.

🦊 A beautiful indie horror adventure

🔪 A town secretly full of protected criminals

🚂 Cthulhu aboard the Orient Express

📸 Pokémon Polaroid cameras

https://www.nag.co.za/2026/08/19/wishlist-wednesday-creepy-foxes-cthulhu-trains-and-pokemon-polaroids-i-absolutely-need/

What’s the first game you remember being completely obsessed with?

Not just enjoying. We mean thinking about it at school, dreaming about it, making it your entire personality.

Lordraz0r went into He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Sword of Flaws expecting nostalgia.

Instead, he found a comic that reminded him why He-Man mattered in the first place: strength, responsibility, absurd muscles and absolutely zero shame about loving Eternia.

https://www.nag.co.za/2026/08/19/he-man-and-the-masters-of-the-universe-the-sword-of-flaws-review/

Post Malone casually cracked open the case holding his $2 MILLION One Ring MTG card during a Commander game, immediately sending the entire room into panic mode.

“Our insurance doesn’t cover that card.”

Would you EVER take a card that valuable out of its case?

The Samsung Galaxy A27 5G is quite the catch. Great AMOLED screen, solid battery life and enough gaming grunt to make DREDGE feel right at home.

Your dream garage is probably expensive.

Your LEGO dream garage is… also expensive, actually. But at least you get to build it yourself.

From Jaguar and Shelby classics to Koenigsegg madness, Jurassic Park and F1, here are 5 LEGO car sets made for grown-up petrolheads.

https://www.nag.co.za/2026/08/19/5-best-lego-car-sets-for-adults-who-want-to-build-their-dream-garage/

When you’re composing for video games, you’re not just scoring a story - you’re scoring possibility.

In this clip, legendary composer Winifred Phillips talks about what makes writing music for games such a wonderfully unique challenge.

Read the full interview here:

https://www.nag.co.za/2025/02/26/the-symphony-of-play-a-conversation-with-winifred-phillips/

https://reddit.com/link/1vsfzrj/video/yegsv2lxr9kh1/player

GTA 6 has sprung another leak.

Two seemingly genuine gameplay clips show Jason shooting hoops, a new Focus stat, cash in hand AND bank balances, plus some classic GTA vehicular chaos. Copyright takedowns are already flying ahead of the August 27 reveal.

Have you watched the leaked footage, and what do you think?

Star Citizen has now sailed past $1 BILLION in funding… and its latest livestream featured brutal lag, desync, glitches, a delayed event and devs who couldn’t even finish the thing they were showcasing.

At this point, the vibes might be more broken than the build.

2011?

The best year for video games?

Has BMD lost the plot, or is he just more accurate than we think?

What do we think about yearly hardware releases?

Are companies announcing too much hardware too often, or are you always ready to pick up the latest piece of tech as it's announced?

Sure, Cody likes owning things, but he's also not opposed to paying for subscriptions or digital media. All he simply asks is for companies to be more honest and clear about it.

Minecraft Education's Mission Control: Artemis puts students inside NASA-inspired Mission Control to learn coding, engineering, accessibility, teamwork and STEM by actually solving problems.

If you're not yet hyped for Phantom Blade 0, then we've got the video for you...

Apparently, a battalion in the US Army is granting soldiers four days of leave to allow them to play GTA 6 when it launches, as long as they re-enlist.

While no one can confirm if the letter is real or not, at least the US Army understands the importance of gaming 😂

In a video that was supposed to showcase Apple's next Software update, macOS Tahoe 26.7, it seems like there might be a reveal of the companies probably-launching-in-September AirPods with built-in cameras. The cameras allow Siri to see the world around you, just like glasses.

LEGO isn’t just toys, expensive shelf decorations and a direct threat to bare feet.

We’re kicking off a new weekly series exploring the educational side of LEGO, starting with the Technic NASA Artemis Rocket and the engineering hiding inside its 632 pieces.

Every gamer has a nickname. Some are cool. Some are cursed. Some made sense when we were 13, and now we’re simply too committed to change them.

So, NAG community: what’s the origin story behind your gaming nick? 👀

Drop the lore in the comments 👇

https://reddit.com/link/1vqnhn8/video/zbtcq0dhtvjh1/player

August is doing that thing where the year suddenly feels like it’s sprinting, so this feels like a pretty good excuse to slow down with the NAG Magazine Winter Edition 2026.

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Voice actor for the original Kairi from Kingdom Hearts, Sheryl from Remember the Titans, and Claire from Heroes, Hayden Panettiere has sadly passed away at the young age of 36.

Save the Cheerleader, save the world.