Arielle Pieterse

South Africa

Staff Writer at NAG Online

Public Enemy Number 1 | Gaming Content Editor for @NAGcoza | Translation: Everyday Is No Pants Day

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Articles

Console Wars: The Card Game Has Gone Gold - At Retail!

2 days ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

Console Wars: The Card Game, the tabletop love letter to pixel-punching fanboys everywhere, has officially hit retail. That’s right: after a successful Kickstarter campaign, a few too many spreadsheets, and enough caffeine to fund an indie dev jam, XboxEra has self-published their deck-building brainchild into the wilds of Amazon. It’s part board game, part console flame war, all chaos – and it’s finally yours for the taking.
Tame 'Em, Train 'Em, Love 'Em < NAG

3 days ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

Let’s be honest – the real reason we play games isn’t to save kingdoms or master the art of combat. It’s to collect weird little guys, give them names like Snorfle or Captain Poopfeet, and make them do our bidding. Enter Steam’s Creature Collector Fest, where the monsters are magical, the friendships are forged through battles and bonding, and your Steam wishlist is about to look like a Pokédex on caffeine.
Roadwarden Review: Just Me, My Horse, And The Crushing Weight Of Every Decision I’ve Ever Made

4 days ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

Release Date12 September 2022DEVELOPERMoral Anxiety StudioPUBLISHERAssemble Entertainment There’s a certain kind of kid who learns to read early; not for gold stars, not to impress teachers, but so they can type “use key on door” without waiting for an adult to get off the phone. That was me. I wasn’t chasing praise.
Elroy And The Aliens Review: Grief, Gags, And Galactic Gibberish

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

If you told me a pixel-hunting, pun-cracking adventure game about grief, time travel, and dorky rockets would make me emotional, I’d have laughed, adjusted my LucasArts hoodie, and clicked away smugly. But Elroy and the Aliens isn’t just another nostalgic love letter to the golden age of adventure games. It’s a full-on intergalactic therapy session – served with a side of dad jokes, alien gibberish, and at least one laser-powered toaster.
First Impressions: Cast n Chill Demo

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

I hate fishing. In real life, that is. Even if you look past the fact that I haven’t eaten fish in decades, the idea of fishing in real life puts me off. I don’t like sitting in boats, I don’t like the cold or early mornings and don’t even get me started on the smell of regret that lingers on bait. And then all that to just spend hours staring into the abyss? Not my idea of a good time. But in games?
Once Upon a Puppet Review: A Fairytale With Big Stage Dreams

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

Release Date23 April 2025DEVELOPERFlatter Than EarthPUBLISHERDaedalic Entertainment If Little Nightmares, Puppeteer, and a Tim Burton fever dream collided backstage during tech rehearsal, you’d get something like Once Upon a Puppet – a 2.5D platformer that feels like someone threw an indie game, a ball of yarn, and a copy of Limbo into a stage trapdoor to see what would crawl out.
Fujifilm Instax Wide 400 Review: A Love Letter To Instant Photography

1 week ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

LENS:5mm retractable lensSHUTTER:1/64 to 1/200 secondsSELF-TIMER:s, 6s, 8s, 10sDIMENSIONS:6.37 x 4.84 x 3.85 inches In a world where our most treasured memories live in the cloud, compressed, filtered, and sandwiched somewhere between a photo dump and a #TBT, there’s something beautifully nostalgic about watching a memory bloom into life on actual paper right in the palm of your hand.
From Wishlist To Will-Play: Upcoming Games We’re Preloading In Spirit

2 weeks ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

Ah, the Steam Wishlist. A magical place where hopes, dreams, and future broke-ness collide. It’s our personal museum of Coming Soon popups, stacked higher than our backlog and filled with the sweet promise of games that will definitely change our lives – and that we’ll definitely play the day they launch, right after we finish Baldur’s Gate 3. And maybe The Witcher 3. Again.
First Impressions: Mycopunk Demo

2 weeks ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

PUBLISHERDevolver Digital Let’s be real: the co-op PvE shooter space is more crowded than a 2007 LAN party running Counter-Strike and Elves vs Trolls maps. You’ve got Helldivers 2 dropping democracy from orbit, Deep Rock Galactic mining comedy gold, and Killing Floor 3 loading up to crank the gore dial to eleven. Now enter Mycopunk, a strange, squishy little offering from Pigeons at Play, published by the always delightfully unhinged Devolver Digital.
“We Put It All on Black”: An Interview With Vertpaint Studios On Ritual Tides

1 month ago | nag.co.za | Arielle Pieterse

There’s something deeply unsettling about being surrounded by open water. In horror, isolation has always been a go-to tactic: strip away society and support structures, and suddenly, every bump in the night hits harder. If you’ve been anywhere near the indie horror radar lately, you’ve probably heard whispers or screams about Ritual Tides. It’s not just the almost photoreal visuals that cause double-takes; it’s the palpable sense that something different is bubbling under the surface.