{"id":56217,"date":"2013-07-11T19:14:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56217"},"modified":"2013-07-11T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T17:42:26","slug":"steam-summer-sale-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56217-steam-summer-sale-is-here","title":{"rendered":"Steam Summer Sale is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The money-grabbing (and often dreaded, depending on your budget) Steam Sale is here.<\/p>\n<p>Titled the Steam Summer getaway sale, you can expect awesome specials from 11 July to 22 July 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stand-out deals for today include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bioshock Infinite @ $29.99 (-50%)<\/li>\n<li>Left4Dead 2 @ $4.99 (-75%)<\/li>\n<li>Scribblenauts Unlimited @ $4.99 (-75%)<\/li>\n<li>Defiance @ $13.59 (-66%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/ \" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a>\u00a0and check out all the deals on offer.<\/p>\n<p>This time around, Steam is also implementing some gameification with its trading card system, which are virtual cards earned by buying and playing games on Steam. Seeing as the Summer Sale is the game itself, it has some special rules &#8211; find out more at the<a title=\"Steam Summer Sale Trading card FAQ\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/promotion\/summerfaq\/\" target=\"_blank\"> trading card FAQ page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also remember to check out MyGaming\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/56184-weekly-digital-download-deals-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">weekly digital download deals<\/a>, where we round up the best specials from Steam, GOG and other digital distribution store-fronts.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re having trouble seeing the sale online, click on the image below for a full view of Day 1&#8217;s specials (thanks to Glordit for the screengrab).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_56240\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Steam-sale-Day-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56240 \" alt=\"Steam Summer Sale\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Steam-Summer-Sale.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Steam-Summer-Sale.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Steam-Summer-Sale-600x357.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-56240\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam Summer Sale 2013 &#8211; Day 1 (Click to Enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<h6>Source: <a href=\" http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Steam news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56150-dota-2-launches-on-steam.html\">Dota 2 launches on Steam<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56112-shadow-warrior-classic-redux-hits-steam.html\">Shadow Warrior Classic Redux hits Steam<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/56100-where-can-you-find-indie-bundles.html\">Where can you find indie bundles?<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56083-boy-who-stole-half-life-2-speaks-out.html\">Boy who stole Half-Life 2 speaks out<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steam has launched its annual Summer Sale, driving down prices on a range of games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":56218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5947,21,6136,85,951,5465],"class_list":["post-56217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-game-specials","tag-headline","tag-pc-games","tag-steam","tag-steam-sale","tag-steam-summer-sale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56239,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56217\/revisions\/56239"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}