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Guten Tag! Squark Games will be attending THE Ultimate Games Meetup: Internationale Spieltage SPIEL! In English, it's SPIEL 09-the international games convention in Essen, Germany, where thousands of gamers from all over the world gather in 8 convention halls, each as big as one convention hall in Mid Valley! This is more than 44,100 square meters of exhibition (read: gaming) space. This is THE games meetup for gamers of all ages and of all types. There will be casual gamers, as well as hard core gamers present. For many, this will be a great 4-days of gaming with friends and families. Some of these friends meet only once a year in Essen. We will be meeting old friends there as well as making new ones.

Spiel 09 begins on Thursday 22nd October and lasts until Sunday 25th October, providing 4 days filled with fun and excitement. No doubt most of the new game designs by hot game designers, e.g. Uwe Rosenberg, Reiner Knizia, Martin Wallace and Stephen Feld will attract lots of attention. Squark Games will be there trying out the new games as well as some of the older classics, and meeting up with game designers and suppliers. We will be playing games in the hotel after hours too with friends who cannot wait to try out new purchases.

What will be the hot games in Essen 09? Well, there are lots. Some will be hot before Essen because of the pre-Essen hype. These games will surely fizzle out when the real fans put them to the ultimate test by playing them and voting their ratings. Some games will be sleeper hits-unheard of until the gamers played them during Spiel and voting for them, sending these off the charts. Some games will be sure-fire hits. These games live up well to their hype. Just for fun, we at Squark Games attempt to predict the following top 5 HOT Games Essen Spiel 09:

At the Gates of Loyang
Dungeon Lords
Rise of Empires
Assyria
Stronghold

Mind you, don't go to the nearest bookie shop and place bets on these predictions. These are just for fun only and are not 100% accurate. In fact, they might not be accurate at all!

We will try to update our fans on what's hot and what's not on Twitter at Twitter/SquarkGames while we are at Essen IF there is free wi-fi available there. We will also be taking photos and videos while we are there. these  will be uploaded on this Squark Games website as well as our Squark Games Facebook Page.

While we are having fun in Essen, our Squark Games customers will not be forgotten as we will be looking out to find surprises in all forms for them. This will depend on what goodies we come across. A few lucky Squark Games customers will receive notification by email in November of what their surprises will be. To qualify for this, one must have made a purchase from Squark Games from October 2008 to 20th November 2009, inclusive. Extra points if you are on our Squark Games Facebook Page. So, if you plan on purchasing from Squark Games, do it soon and join us on Facebook... :)

Auf Wiedersehen!trong>