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SaudiGamer: Huge PC games sale on Steam

You need to hurry up, the offer will end in about 31 hours!

Steam is having a huge sale on their games! Torchlight is half priced at $9.99, GTA 4 for $7.50, Mirror’s Edge for $4.99 and many many more! Visit the official Steam promotion page here.

Steam Game Sales monitors sales on Steam as well.

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PlayStation gaming day in Riyadh

The second Sony PlayStation Gamers Day in Saudi Arabia will be held between October 21st to 23rd in Riyadh. You can register to attend the event here. Via True Gaming.

You can find more info from the first PlayStation Gamers Day at this page.

Saudigamer twitter account

Quick FYI: I have given the @saudigamer Twitter account to @dubayan who currently have SaudiGamer.com podcast.

Saudigamer.me will still take you to this section of my site.

Watch BlizzCon 2009 live stream

It’s almost time for Blizzard’s BlizzCon 2009 and this year they actually offered a method for international customers to watch the events. It’ll cost about $39 though. Here’s what you get:

* Exclusive interviews and commentary

* Main stage presentations including opening ceremony

* Tournament coverage and team highlights

* BlizzCon 2009-exclusive World of Warcraft in-game pet,

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SaudiGamer returns

SaudiGamer: 2003-2005. You thought it’s over? But it’s not.

SaudiGamer.me.com is back and one letter shorter!

Lots of Wii news, still no Saudi Arabia distributor

If you care about the Nintendo Wii, here’s some GDC 2009 news:

50 million Wiis shipped.
Wii will support using an SD card to store games.
Final Fantasy games for the Wiiware.
Virtual Console Arcade.
Wii System Menu 4.0.

As we said before, Nintendo is still ignoring the Saudi Arabia market with their DS and Wii. Most of the devices sold

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The new Battle.net

If you are playing World of Warcraft, a classic Blizzard game or planning on buying any of the new Blizzard games (Diablo 3, Starcraft 2). Then make sure you are registered on Battle.net.

You can “merge” your World of Warcraft accounts with it as well. Unfortunatly it is restricted to American World of Warcraft accounts. European

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Nintendo’s piracy list is missing Saudi Arabia

Nintendo documents the worst countries in the world in terms of rampant Nintendo game piracy every year. And send the report the US trade representative. The countries include China, Korea, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Paraguay.

Missing from the list in my opinion Saudi Arabia and the rest of the Middle East. Let’s be honest, software/game/movie piracy

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Square Enix games on the Steam service

Valve and Square Enix announced a partnership to bring Square Enix games to the PC using the Steam service. It will start with The Last Remnant on 9 April 2009.

Square Enix president and CEO, John Yamamoto, said of the deal, “We are excited to offer the millions of Steam customers online access to Square Enix

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World of Warcraft 3.0.2

Blizzard finally released World of Warcraft patch 3.0.2 also known as “The Echoes of Doom”. The patch is 1.62GB and prepares players for the upcoming expansion “Wrath of the Lich King” which will be released November the 13th.

The update will add new talent points, achievements, inscriptions, hair cuts and many improvements. You can check out

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