{"id":31780,"date":"2012-12-21T00:34:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T22:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=31780"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:40:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:40:14","slug":"steams-holiday-sale-begins-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steams-holiday-sale-begins-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Steam&#8217;s Holiday Sale begins today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/steams-holiday-sale-begins-today\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-31781\" title=\"steam holiday sale 2012\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/12\/12-20-2012-1-58-13-PM.png\" alt=\"steam holiday sale 2012\" width=\"600\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/12\/12-20-2012-1-58-13-PM.png 600w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/12\/12-20-2012-1-58-13-PM-120x80.png 120w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2012\/12\/12-20-2012-1-58-13-PM-300x203.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. Steam&#8217;s annual Holiday Sale starts today. There will be tons of games on sale so you can ignore your family during the holidays. As of this writing, <a title=\"mirror's edge\" href=\"http:\/\/mirrors-edge.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mirror&#8217;s Edge<\/a> ($4.99), <a title=\"Borderlands 2 preview\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/borderlands-2-preview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Borderlands 2<\/a> ($29.99), <a title=\"hitman absolution\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/gamescom-2012-hitman-absolution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hitman: Absolution<\/a> ($24.99), <a title=\"wargame: european escalation\" href=\"http:\/\/wargame-european-escalation.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wargame: European Escalation<\/a> ($9.99), <a title=\"scribblenauts unlimited european release\" href=\"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/scribblenauts-unlimited-european-launch-in-2013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scribblenauts Unlimited<\/a> ($19.99), and Prince of Persia ($2.49) are all on sale.<\/p>\n<p>As with past Steam sales, there is a voting element where players can vote for one of three games to go on sale next. Pay close attention to the countdown timers next to each sale so you know when new deals will be posted. Better yet, download the Steam app for <a title=\"steam for android\" href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> or <a title=\"steam for iOS\" href=\"http:\/\/steam-mobile.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS<\/a> to keep up with the latest deals on the go. You can even purchase games from the apps.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the latest deals in the <a title=\"steam store\" href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steam Store<\/a>. The sale ends January 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that time of year again. Steam&#8217;s annual Holiday Sale starts today. There will be tons of games on sale so you can ignore your family during the holidays. As of this writing, Mirror&#8217;s Edge ($4.99), Borderlands 2 ($29.99), Hitman: Absolution ($24.99), Wargame: European Escalation ($9.99), Scribblenauts Unlimited ($19.99), and Prince of Persia ($2.49) are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/steams-holiday-sale-begins-today\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Steam&#8217;s Holiday Sale begins today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":31781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-31780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333498,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31780\/revisions\/333498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=31780"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=31780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}