'Tis the season for a silly Steam sale

David Swan
Wednesday, 22 December 2010 16:23

Your IT - Entertainment

There must be something in the eggnog around the Valve headquarters, as the company's Steam Christmas sale has outdone virtually every other gaming sale in history.  

 

 

While many non-gamers wait for fruitless car parking spots and queue up for changing rooms, gaming fans can save hundreds from their armchair with the click of a mouse.

Starting yesterday, the sale offers various games and packages up to 80% off and will run until January 2 in the new year.

The publisher packages in particular (THQ, Ubisoft, Sega, etc.) offer hundreds of dollars of savings for packages of multiple games, and these discounts will run for the duration of the sale.

Other individual titles are on sale daily, and will only be specially discounted for 24 hours.

So far I've picked up the original Mafia game for five bucks, The Burnout Ultimate box also for five dollars and Battlefield Bad Company 2 for about 14.

Bring on the Call of Duty series, Valve!

It's going to be a very merry holiday season for PC gamers this Christmas.