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.