Steam's penchant for spit-take-worthy sales is well-documented, but in the past, we've at least been given time between bouts of purchase lust to re-amass our fortunes so we can once again blow them on a million games we'll never get around to playing. Now, however, Valve's elected to add daily deals to the mix, ensuring that we'll perish poor, alone, and in possession of every game ever conceived. Oh well. Could be worse.

Valve's generally incredible at keeping secrets (we think they may actually be removing knowledge of Half-Life from our brains at this point), but we thought we had Portal 2's main feature set pretty well figured out. Single-player, co-op, custom levels. Yep, that about covers it. Turns out, we were wrong. There's more. In this case, though, it's not necessarily a pleasant surprise.

Buying games is messy business. You have to find a decent store, avoid the bad employees, and then dodge and parry as you're assaulted by barbed ripostes of “trade-in!” and “pre-order!” Or, you know, you could always just use Steam. GamersGate CEO Theo Bergquist, however, thinks Valve's reign as beloved Emperor of Sales is nearly at an end.