{"id":77142,"date":"2015-06-12T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=77142"},"modified":"2015-06-12T10:11:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T08:11:10","slug":"steams-summer-sale-2015-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/77142-steams-summer-sale-2015-is-here","title":{"rendered":"Steam&#8217;s Summer Sale 2015 is here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve probably already noticed, but for those who haven\u2019t, <a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steam<\/a> is hosting its annual Summer Sale \u2013 it\u2019s practically a second Christmas for PC gamers.<\/p>\n<p>Like with all major Steam sales, a vast majority of Steam\u2019s catalogue, almost its entire library in fact, will be on sale, and discounted fairly heavily as a result.<\/p>\n<p>Each day of the sale, which ends on June 21<sup>st<\/sup>, will play host to a new set of Daily Deals, Flash Sales and community driven Special Deals.<\/p>\n<p>Daily Deals will likely last 48 hours a piece, so expect to see two sets of Daily Deals from tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Flash Sales refresh at twice the pace, with new Flash Sales occurring every 12 hours, and they don\u2019t stick around afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s the community driven Special Deals.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77146\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Steam-Community-Gaming-Event.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77146\" class=\"wp-image-77146\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Steam-Community-Gaming-Event.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Community Event - Monster Summer Game\" width=\"600\" height=\"235\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77146\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steam Community Event &#8211; Monster Summer Game<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How this Summer Sale\u2019s event works is the community is given the opportunity to take part in a little game of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>Band together with your friends as a team and unlock new power ups, upgrades and better discounts as a result. You\u2019ll even earn yourself a few Steam Cards to boot.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s all explained below:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_77148\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Steam-Community-Event-How-it-Works.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77148\" class=\"wp-image-77148\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Steam-Community-Event-How-it-Works.jpg\" alt=\"Steam Community Event - Monster Summer Game\" width=\"600\" height=\"627\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monster Summer Game &#8211; How it works<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just as a precautionary tale, we\u2019d advise you don\u2019t purchase anything that isn\u2019t a part of a Flash Sale, Daily Deal or Special Community Deal.<\/p>\n<p>If it isn\u2019t, it may very well see a larger discount and won\u2019t you feel a fool for purchasing something when you could have gotten it cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>If you really want a game and it isn\u2019t a part of one of those specials, then purchase it on the last day of the sale June 21st.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More news worth checking out<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/77136-this-weeks-best-gaming-deals-43.html\">This week&#8217;s best gaming deals<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/76462-steams-summer-sale-2015-arrives-in-june-and-the-videos-that-celebrate-it.html\">Steam\u2019s Summer Sale 2015 arrives in June: and the videos that celebrate it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/76978-uwe-bolls-kickstarter-meltdown-will-make-you-smile-and-cringe.html\">Uwe Boll\u2019s Kickstarter meltdown will make you smile and cringe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Christmas before Christmas!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":77144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1149,1969,5465,697],"class_list":["post-77142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-discount","tag-news-2","tag-steam-summer-sale","tag-valve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77142","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\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}