“Well, it has been fun folks while it lasted!” says the camp counselor. Or something like that. Summer camp is over and everyone is crying or something like that. As much as we would love for the Steam deals to go on and on, we all know that everyone is broke at this point. So, the only thing to do is get the last couple tickets for the drawing and cross our fingers! Today’s recommendations:

Assassin’s Creed Franchise
Just Cause 2
Borderlands GOTY
Battlefield: Bad Company 2

There are a bunch of games on sale too that you may have been waiting for to hopefully get a nice deep discount. Well, if it didn’t happen, then it didn’t happen and you’ll either have to wait for Thanksgiving or buy it today. Look at how many games you bought though and decide if you can play/beat them all by the time Thanksgiving rolls around.

There are no freebie tickets today. Nor any tickets specifically for today at all. Just a nice, big countdown timer. Most people I’ve seen have anywhere from 10 to 20 tickets. So if you don’t care, don’t worry – one extra ticket isn’t going to increase your chances very much. Assume that one million gamers are participating. If you’ve got the average, you’ve got a 1 in a million chance of winning.

Another day, more deals! My favorite DRM solution, Steam, once again has more deals to be had. And tickets for the grand prize drawing. Here are today’s game recommendations:

Prince of Persia Franchise
Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum
Hitman Franchise
Supreme Commander 2

For those eager for Duke Nukem Forever, it is on sale for 50% off ($25). However, realize that this game was released under a month ago. Why is it only $25 so soon? Ask yourself that question before parting with your money.

And today’s freebie is to write a comment on a friend’s screenshot. That was easy!

I don’t visit Reddit very often mostly because the readers put useless junk on the homepage. But today I did visit that site and some crazy person put together a list of the Steam sales. Steam, that wonderful DRM platform, has some good deals going on today. Plus there are tickets to be had at the prize booth. While Reddit just puts everything on one page and expects you to figure out what is good, here are my recommendations:

Fallout 3 GOTY (FINALLY a decent price)
The Last Remnant
Mass Effect 2 (Franchise sale!)
Splinter Cell Franchise

For strategy fans:

Emipre & Napoleon: Total War GOTY

For the uber-cheap indie game fans:

Osmos
Shatter
Zen Bound 2
The Wonderful End of the World
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood
Flight Control HD
Penny Arcade Adventures: Precipice of Darkness Pack
VVVVVV

Uber-cheap other games/mods:

The Longest Journey
NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits
Garry’s Mod

And what would this be without free tickets? That’s right – two tickets today are freebies! Build out a wishlist of 10 items…that’s easy to do! And post your own video to Steam by linking a YouTube account to Steam and setting one video to public and embeddable. That one’s harder to do.