Steam launches huge sale to celebrate holidays

Derek Brush 22 Dec, 2009 at 10:36pm ET Article published in Gaming

In the spirit of giving, Steam is running a huge sale to celebrate the holidays.

The event includes a persistent price slash on many publishers’ titles, including big names like 2K games, Eidos, Ubisoft, Rockstar, and more. Savings range from 25% to as much as 80% and will be available until January 3rd, 2010.

To keep the sale fresh and interesting, a daily set of extra sales is also being run. If the title was already on sale as part of the above list, its price gets dropped even further, making it a fantastic time to pick up games you’ve wanted, but haven’t wanted to pay a lot for. December 22nd’s title list includes Defense Grid: The Awakening, Mirror’s Edge, STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Grand Theft Auto IV, and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Icrontic will be maintaining a list of Steam’s daily holiday deals here.

Go get them while they’re hot!

Comments

23 Dec 2009 ~ 6:09am GnomeWizardd torchlight is 9 bucks and so is trine Highly recommend both games, Also Braid which as a high Meta score is only 3 bucks!
23 Dec 2009 ~ 6:30am Snarkasm Braid and Trine are fantastic. Is Torchlight anything but a dungeon crawler? I never really got into that game style.
23 Dec 2009 ~ 9:11am Thrax Torchlight is a dungeon crawler.
23 Dec 2009 ~ 2:06pm Grimnoc This is very, very bad for me.
23 Dec 2009 ~ 2:53pm Tushon

Grimnoc wrote:

This is very, very bad for me.

+1 ... I don't have any cash that I should be spending on games right now but I might have toooooooo
23 Dec 2009 ~ 4:23pm chrisWhite Yeah, Steam's killing me here.
23 Dec 2009 ~ 5:28pm GooD Just got my hands on a big bunch of new games to play with... lol
23 Dec 2009 ~ 5:51pm chrisWhite So I now have quite a backlog of games from the black friday sales, is GTA4 one I need to pick up now or is it a good one to take another look at when things get slow again?
24 Dec 2009 ~ 2:06pm QuadWhore Looks like Steam's going to take away those new pickups for my guitar that I wanted... but the games are sooo cheap!

I must buy! D:

-Note- Steam knows how to brainwash, eh?
24 Dec 2009 ~ 2:12pm Snarkasm Seriously, Valve knows what's up. They release numbers every now and again - back when they did a 50% off sale on the original L4D game, sales went up 1600%, I think. They know people respond to sales and low prices.