As always, Steam is celebrating the season by making all their games ridiculously inexpensive for half the month, and we’re about halfway through the sale so far, with tons of pretty awesome deals. Throughout the two-week period, Steam will have deals on all kinds of games, from new hits to older classics, and ranging from great deals on expensive games to complete steals on some older ones (or awesome indie games going for like 2-3 bucks, which is always fun). I haven’t really picked much up so far, but I did finally get a copy of Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition for 8 bucks yesterday, which was pretty awesome, since I’d been waiting for it to drop in price for a bit before buying it since SOMEHOW it’s still 40 bucks.

There’s also another special thing that they’re doing for this sale- something called the Great Gift Pile. Basically, for performing certain Steam-related tasks or doing achievements for games on Steam, you can get stuff like free games or coupons for games after the sale, which is kinda neat. It’s semi-unlikely that you’ll actually get a game of worth, but I ended up picking up a free copy of Portal 2, which is pretty neat, as well as having a couple friends give me their extra copies of games they already had- specifically Psychonauts and Dungeon Defenders. It’s definitely worth checking out, even if the chances are slim. They’ve got some pretty great games in the pile, and it’s pretty easy to get a bunch of entries for free or super cheap (since some are for little 3-dollar games that are a ton of fun, like Dungeons of Dredmore).

Still waiting on the rest of the sale, and it should be pretty awesome. Until next time!

P.S.: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3446288&pagenumber=38#post398937143

I did a thing with Yapo for the Blood Bowl LP, go check it out if you’re interested.

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