Steam Sale Kicks Off With Huge PC Game Deals

12.07.2012
The PC game download service Steam has launched its annual summer sale, starting with huge discounts on popular games such as Portal 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

Every day through July 23, will offer 24-hour discounts on a batch of new PC games. Today's deals include ($30 instead of $60), ($5 instead of $15), ($2.50 instead of $10), and ($6 instead of $15).

In addition to the daily 24-hour deals, Steam will be running "Flash Sales" on shorter time cycles. The deals available at the time of this posting include ($7.50 instead of $30) and ($7.50 instead of $30).

Other games will also be discounted through the sale period. Now is a good time, for example, if you've been meaning to try classics such as ($5) or ($10), or the recent critically-acclaimed ($19). Bundle deals are also available from individual publishers such as THQ, whose is now selling for $50 instead of $311.

Valve, which runs the Steam service, says it will offer deals on thousands of games. I haven't found a complete list, but SlickDeals has a with links to some of the major discounts. You can also browse , though it seems to be buckling from high demand.

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