NewNews - Steam Winter Sales 2011 (Dec 19 - Jan 1)

Official Site: http://store.steampowered.com/

As many people expected it from Valve, the Steam Winter Sales for 2011 has begun!  Even with the purchase of something around 20+ games in the past 3 months, I'm still pretty excited for some of the sales offered this winter.  Each day, up until January 1st, there will be 12 featured games/packs on the front page with an additional discount along with the one they already have.  There's also tons of  discounted games all across the Steam stores should the game you're looking for not be on the list.  As with every seasonal event on steam, there will be "missions/quests/objectives" that players can fulfill on games each day.  For each completed objective, a player will receive a gift or a lump of coal.  A gift has either a complete game (wow, awesome) or coupons (not sure what they do yet) that you can use to redeem for or trade with friends.  A lump of coal can be used to craft a gift (7 is needed) and it won't be a lump of coal again OR they can be kept for an epic holiday giveaway where the grand prize winner wins ALL STEAM GAMES!  If that's not epic, I don't know what is.  So have fun, play hard, and win some prizes!