Steam has launched a new holiday sale.

Looks like this is bigger than the one they had a few weeks ago. Today's Highlights:

Mirrors Edge - $5.00
GTA4 - $7.50
Defense Grid: The Awakening - $2.50
STALKER - $1.50

As well as 66% off all Unreal, 50% off all THQ, Ubisoft, Atari, Eidos and 33% off all 2K Games titles. promoted/edited forum item

40 hours left :)

7.50 for gta4 is pretty bloody good

Wow, those are some nice prices!

nice one, thanks

Holy crap, Steam rocks. $7.50 for GTA4!

GTA4 - $7.50

MOTHERf***IN SOLD
Thanks for heads up champ!

isnt gta4 on pc a really s***ty port?

Nah, GTA4 on PC is fine... just make sure you've got the hardware to run it.

I've got an intel i7 920, 6GB ram and an nvidia GTX 275 and had no hassles running high (not highest) settings with around 50 to 60 fps @ 1680x1050.

The only thing that annoyed me with it is the mouse lag, but you get used to that fairly quickly.

ta ctd, edited your post a bit to make it more news-able, hope that's OK

if you had ati you could run all on highest euphoria :P

/start ati vs nvidia war #910495801000000000

/start ati vs nvidia war #910495801000000000

nah, pass.

I just picked up Mirror's Edge for $5 USD. Nice.

You can purchase as gifts too - sweet.

if you had ati you could run all on highest euphoria :P

There's nothing ATI specific about the highest settings, you just need a card with more than 1GB of VRAM.

Just picked up Riddick: Dark Athena for $6 and Torchlight for $10, not bad.

s***, I'm gonna grab GTA4. Those prices are crazy!

torchlight, world of goo, dawn of war 2 and mirrors edge.

good stuff

Too bad left 4 dead is censored. Just wouldn't be the same

Nah, GTA4 on PC is fine... just make sure you've got the hardware to run it.

It's technically fine, but it's the most disappointing game I've ever played, I reckon. Super lush graphics, awesome environment let down by epic snoozefest of a story that decays in interest like the highest energy short lived particle created in the LHC

Multiplayer is pretty fun

probably going to get arkham asylum and id software pack for some oldschool gaming... and world of goo!

i'm going to have a field day tonight! pickup plenty of bargains

i've downloaded over 50gb on umetered content this month from pretty much from steam...

epic snoozefest of a story

it wasn't that bad, but yeah, it's no san andreas.

I've gotten about 30 titles from this. Was never that big into Steam until now!

gta4, both stalker games, mirrors edge bought. lets see what specials pop up in the next 3 1/2 hours

i bought mirrors edge and outrun 2006 coast 2 coast

Outrun! how much was that?

ok just checked.. $2.50!

SOLD!

L4D2 is on special as well. Clocked up 96hours so far on this gayme.

2 hours till next lot of dealzors.

Need a new computer baddddd.

So borderland and ID pack on special

Serial Sam HD for 10 bucks - sold! Just gotta get me mates to buyzor

Just bought 100$ worth of stuff, even though I don't have a PC at the moment, really really good deals, esp that ID pack!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=takFEFyWT5EfFYxerxuOA6w&toomany=true

Anyone know how to automatically go through and install the uninstalled games in steam? Stuff going through and manually hitting install-next-next-finish for all these games I've just bought.

the eidos pack is damn nice, pity i've already played through batman once and cbf doing it again

Is Assassin's Creed worth the time (ignoring cost)? Reviews seem mixed ...

i finished it but it is repetitive as hell and has lots of little annoyances that really detract from the enjoyment for a lot of people.

honestly, i reckon there's better ways to spend your gaming time/money at the moment.

So many games to get, not sure what. someone name something. thinking torchlight, but it's 10 bux.

honestly, i reckon there's better ways to spend your gaming time/money at the moment.

Cheers that's exactly what I was after. Many of the reviews agreed that it was repetitive and some scenes were awkward on PC. Might look elsewhere ...

assasin creed 2 rips s*** all over 1 tho. it is pretty fun free-running around and jumping off s*** to kill guards mid air etc

thinking torchlight, but it's 10 bux.

torchlight was AWESOME

^ YOUR PET HAS DEPARTED.

f*** yer, my pet did some serious k's

ive got to level 62 and still jump on and thrash out a level or two here and there

the game is crying out for more content, but for the price, its maximum value for dollar

are they going to release a multiplayer update for it or will that be a separate purchase?

I doubt torchlight will ever have multiplayer.

It's a way for the team to raise funds to further develop a mmo based on the torchlight universe.

I have to say its a pretty awesome game. It has all the polish and replayability of a blizzard game which is not unsurprising because it is made by the Diablo Blizzard team. It's easily worth $10.

dammit I missed the l4d2 special AGAIN!

Is Assassin's Creed worth the time (ignoring cost)? Reviews seem mixed ...

Nah, you can get the gist of the story from AC2, which is 100000x better

Hmm, I don't know what the deal is here, I was under the impression that steam downloads didn't count towards your limit? (I'm with Telstra and have my steam set up to download from Telstra). I woke up this afternoon to check on the progress of the games I've bought and it's taken me over my download limit (Thank god though for the new plans and the no excess download usage charges!!).
Anyone know for certain what the deal is?

Anyone know for certain what the deal is?

yes, yuo are very bad at computars

GameArena hosted content would be free, but the selector built in to Steam is just a preference thing, it still connects to 3 or 4 other content servers as well.

Get Freys Steam filter (the gui one) http://members.iinet.net.au/~chapman.j/

I find it easier to click install on an unloaded game, let it build the local cache thing, and then once it starts downloading run the filter. Sometimes trying to run the filter while trying to build the local cache will just give you errors.

Just have the filter on permanently. And yeah you are the steam noob.

I'll be the first to admit I'm a steam noob. Up until 2 weeks ago I couldn't stand it and felt it a pain in the arse when I wanted to play the 2 games I owned that needed steam. I've come to apreciate it alot more now though!

Howto buy games without steam?

I grabbed GTA4 and PoP: Sands of time, then used the cc=uk thingy to get Witcher & ghostbusters. Now to find hdd space on my steam drive to install them all :/

Some good deals today if you haven't played these
* Killing Floor - $4.99 (75% Off)
* BioShock - $4.99 (75% Off)
* The Orange Box - $14.99 (50% Off but sif anyone doesn't have this)
* Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box - $7.49 (75% Off)

burnout paradise is pretty cool

massive game, so much to do!

Shattered Horizon for $5! $15USD for the 4 pack.

Make sure you check the cc-us steam page, cheaper and more deals.

Eg. Crisis pack is way cheaper. Yesterday they had max payne1/2 for 3 bucks and you couldn't see it on the aussie steam page.

http://store.steampowered.com/?cc=us

Last day of sales - repeat day.
L4D2
GTA4
Killing Floor
Torchlight
STALKER
Defense Grid
Bioshock

Awesome price for Torchlight if anyone missed it the other day.

Also, Get L4D2 now if you want it, Trog.

yeah i picked up a few beauties over the last few days :

shattered horizen 5 bucks
defense grid : the awakening 5 bucks (not a bad TD game for when you're bored)
eidos pack 37 bucks i think (incl arkham asylum)
rome total war 5 bucks


i still havent downloaded shattered horizen...

EDIT: anyone want the tomb raiders gifted to them? i'm never gonna play it..

I'd say yes, but I suspect with Witcher, Ghostbusters, GTA4 et al I'll be in the same boat.

i regret buying torchlight.

it wasn't worth the money.

i regret buying torchlight.

it wasn't worth the money.

Don't listen to this madman.
If you loved diablo/diablo II then buy this game.

Wow how bad does it have to be to not be worth 5 bucks?

was going to buy torchlight and the witcher, then realised i would probably never play them.

i bought it for 10. for 5 i might have been satisfied but not for 10. i loved d2 and played that a lot.

this is extremely similar to d2, with a few awesome add ons. but not enough change to make it worth 10.

what might be happening is that the alchemy class im playing is boring. so i might change it.

lols, alchemy class;

warrior or you're a f*****

teach me your ways masta spook

I got it for 5 dorra and feel like I ripped someone off.

I reckon Alch can get a bit boring with lots of pets, I don't even see some mini-bosses before the +rep appears! I'm only playing on hard tho.

Killing Floor is pretty good for the price