Stop whatever you’re doing. Go over to Steam store, and buy the Valve Complete Pack for $50 (that’s less than R350). Thank you.
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Wait, you’re still here? Do you realise that’s 24 games? Right. Go.
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Not convinced? The deal includes Half-Life, Half-Life 2 and both subsequent Episodes, Team Fortress 2, both Left 4 Dead games, and both Portal games. That’s already nine brilliant games for the price of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Go.
And while that’s downloading, some kind of something is going up, down, and all around, according to a mysterious email message being posted all over the internet. Can you work this one out?
Dear Everyone:
Me, Syl, and Tappet arrived okay at Steam Summer Camp today. A lot of our friends are here too. The folks we left back at Valve–who all got pink-eye and couldn’t go–said they’d put up the pictures from camp that we send them (after they’re done posting the loads of Summer Camp daily sales and publisher packs on Steam each day). The first one (with our new pals Marty and Max) is there now. This morning, Syl drove Marty’s car. Tappet had to work the pedals, but we got it up to 87 miles an hour on the dirt! We think we can get it to go faster tonight.
The counselors have planned a bunch of camp activities each day. Like playing games gets you special Steam Summer Camp Achievements. Then they say you get tickets for each Achievement you earn. Big whoop, right?!? But, guess what? There’s a Prize Booth where you can trade your tickets for cool stuff. I made the banner on the booth!
At the end of camp, they’re giving away some really big prizes: one-hundred campers get the top ten games on their Wishlist! They were going to have field day races for prizes, but not all of us have legs.
Gotta go.
Sir Roderick Bodkin & Syl & Tappet.
If you’ve still got cash in the bank after that, keep those beady, greedy little eyeballs peeled for daily specials on Steam until 10 July.