Christmas in July

It's the most wonderful time of the year... if you're a PC gamer.  That's right, Steam's summer sale is underway again, which means it's the time where I see deep discounts on games, spend more than I want to, and games inevitably go unplayed until it's time for next year's sale!

So far my wallet damage is thus:

• Trine 2 - $3.74
• Assassin's Creed Revelations: The Lost Archive DLC - $3.39
• Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - $2.49
• Toki Tori (gift) - $1.24
• Batman: Arkham City - $10.19

So as of day four of this 12-day sale, I'm at about half of what I spent for the duration of last year's sale.  I enjoyed Trine, so I thought I'd give the sequel a try.  I'm mostly interested in the Vlad the Impaler mission in the ACR DLC, even though it isn't the focus of this pack. KOTOR is another one of those games where I heard lots of praise for it, so when it hit a cheap price I figured I'll give it a go.  And perhaps I'll start Arkham City this week to mentally prepare myself for this weekend's release of The Dark Knight Rises in theaters.

I also want to draw attention to a nice little website called Steam Gifts. Here gamers run giveaways for games.  As long as your Steam account has $100 worth of games in it, you can sign up and start entering the giveaways.  While most giveaways are open to everyone, some are restricted to contributors (of which I am one now thanks to my Toki Tori giveaway) and to certain groups.  So if you want a chance at free games, sign up!  If you have an extra copy of a game in your inventory that you don't know what to do with, give it to someone who will appreciate it!

Game on!