Catchy title hey? Recently there was a post in the Muslim Gamer forum about the scams that people are running on Kickstarter to take money off of the many willing to support up and coming games and various other projects. The discussion ended up moving over to the Muslim Gamer Teasmpeak yesterday where we discussed whether Kickstarter really had any benefit to gamers. I was going to leave it at that, till I saw another press release in my inbox with yet another title asking for money. Another waste of money, another bunch of gamers flying towards the bright neon light of a fly zapper I thought to myself…

I have been gaming for way too long. Its my thing. Its what I enjoy doing, its what I enjoy talking about, its what I enjoy writing about, its why I built Muslim Gamer. Unfortunately though, as the years go on, it feels more and more like games have lost that special thing which makes them…well special. So when I recently came across a mod to Half Life which reignited that flame, I thought it was time to let others know about it. Even if I am years late to the band wagon…

Salamualeykum everyone! We were down for a few days as we made our move to the new server. We out grew our last server a lot quicker than expected with the expansion of our forums, so using that as an excuse we laid the grounds for expansion and new projects by making the move.

Roketfiq recently won our giveaway for Mass Effect 3, so he has been nice enough to write up a quick first impression of the game for us. Its not really a review and its not really a run down, its….well its a first impression, a 2 minute review if you will. Enjoy!

Kreax from the Muslim Gamer community recently started a series on our forums aptly titled “How to build the ultimate uber gaming monster machine for under $2″….well that might be a bit of an exaguration.. It was titled “How To Build A PC” . Seeing as its something that comes up a bit, I thought we would feature the series here on the news site too! So Ahlan wa Sahlan to Part 1!

The resident clown on the Muslim Gamer Forums recently transitioned from his beloved PS3 console to his shiny new PC. What we like to call a revert gamer around this here PC town. So we put the challenge out to him to keep us updated as to what it was like to go from a controller to WASD. After much waiting, its finally here. The first installment and published article from our 16 year old Saudi clown, AhmadSA’s Journey…

In my first article from the Develop conference I spoke about the WMD portal and how the gaming community can get involved in the development and investment of games rather than just being a consumer. In the second article of this series Ill take a look at “Ethics and Designing Addiction in games”.

I had the pleasure of attending the game ‘Developer Conference’ 24th of November 2011 in Liverpool. A great event that I can recommend to anyone out there. You get access to a a lot of influential people from the major developers\ publishers as well as some great Indie developers too. This year speakers included  ‘Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide/Europe’,  ‘Electronic Arts’, ‘Blitz Games’ and ‘Slightly Mad Studios’ to name just a few, and of course MuslimGamer.com was there to bring back the news for you. Over the next week, Ill be writing articles on the sessions I got to attend and hopefully show you how great these kind of events are for those interested in not only gaming, but what goes on behind the scenes too .

So for the final in this 3 part series we take a look at the Digital Distribution Sales market over the last 12 months, the alternatives to Steam, and how you can find the cheapest game out there at any given time.

In part 1 we showed an example of how making a mistake in your purchase gives you no recourse when it comes to Valves Steam. Unlike brick and mortar stores or even places like Ebay which allow you to exchange and refund, Steam has “accounting” issues with this. In Part 2 of this series we look at some of Steams EULA clauses and things you should know.