If anyone knows how to throw a sale, it’s Valve. Every year to celebrate the Northern Hemisphere’s Summer holidays (or something), Valve throws an epic Summer sale resulting in PC gamers spending hundreds of dollars on games that they probably will never even get to play, contributing significantly to the widespread malady of growing game backlogs which plagues modern gamers around the world.
The sale kicks of in style, and today only you can get the following:
All price conversions rounded to the nearest R5
Steam Summer sale 2011 day 1 specials
Borderlands Game of the Year Edition $7.50 (R50)
The Witcher 2 $33.49 (R235)
Lead and Gold $1.50 (R10)
Recettera: An Item Shop $5.00 (R35)
Test Drive Unlimited 2 $9.99 (R70)
Bit.Trip Runner $2.50 (R15)
Medal of Honor $20.39 (R140)
Blood Bowl: Legendary Edition $13.59 (R95)
Dawn of War II: Retribution $14.99 (R105)
Back to the Future The Game $12.49 (R90)
Operation Flashpoint: Red River $29.24 (R210)
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion $6.80 (R50)
These games will only be on special for the rest of today, and a new wave of specials should role in this evening at 7PM local time.
On top of that, Steam has reduced entire publisher catalogues, which means discounts on pretty much 90% of games currently available on Steam. Publisher catalogues allow you to pick and choose various individual games from certain publishers at a set discount.
Publisher catalogue specials
Ubisoft 25% off
THQ 33% off
Square Enix 33% off
Activision 33% off
Valve 33% off
Rockstar 33% off
Sega 33% off
2K Games 33% off
Bethesda 25% off
Capcom 33% off
Lucas Arts 33% off
Paradox Interactive 33% off
And a bunch more,including 1C, Konami, NCSoft, Atari, Aspyr, Novalogic, ID Games, Kalypso and others.
Then there are the the feature packs, which are bundles of from specific publishers.
Feature Packs
Square Enix Eidos collector pack (50 games) $74.99 (R525)
THQ Hit Collection (14 games) $49.99 (R350)
Valve Complete pack (all 24 Valve games released to date) $49.99 (R350)
Telltale Complete pack (all 16 Telltale games released to date) $49.99 (R350)
1C Complete pack (all 31 1C games released to date) $74.99 (R525)
Popcap Complete pack (all 43 Popcap games released to date) $49.99 (R350)
Meridian 4 Complete Pack (all 28 Meridian 4 games released to date) $34.99 (R245)
ID Super pack (20 games) $29.99 (R210)
Epic Games Unreal Deal pack (5 games)$24.99 (R175)
Mumbo Jumbo Complete Pack (20 games) $24.99 (R175)
And there’s more, Valve has set up a sort of treasure hunt with various challenges unlockable by playing certain Steam games. Complete the challenges and unlock exclusive in-game items, as well as go into a lucky draw whereby 100 Steam users will win their top 10 wishlist games.The Steam summer sale will run from now until 10 July, with each day ushering in a new set of specials, so stay tuned for more in the coming 10 days.
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