This weekend I played primarily PC games in my free time, and I couldn't remember the last time I had done so without it being an MMO.  I love PC games, for a while they were the only games I would ever play. Growing up on Diablo and Team Fortress had me focused on building a gaming PC in order to keep up with the new releases.  Over time my Xbox took priority and the PC slowly became a platform I used for occasional MMO play and some TF2 on the side.  However, looking at Steam this weekend, I realized that the PC landscape is changing and, good or bad, it's pretty awesome. 
 
Steam had Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West on sale for $2.50. Wait, let me repeat, two dollars and fifty freaking cents! It's a third person class based shooter that, in my first four hours of playing, sucked away all of my free time with its strangely addicting and free flowing shooting.  There was also Magicka which stole away some time from my studying with its great writing and enormous selection of mix and match elemental magic.  At first it just seemed like press these 3 keys to win but later on the combos became much more intuitive and much more enjoyable to pull off against goblins, highlanders, and giant snakes.  Finally there was League of Legends, a free to play DoTA clone.  League of Legends has been out for a while now but it is a constantly growing landscape.  You pick and build up your hero and go on killing enemies with the best strategies possible.   
 
These are all examples of the ever changing landscape that is the PC.  League of Legends thrives on players buying, with real money, characters and unlockable skins in order to keep the game running.  Magicka is yet another low priced game that offers a huge amount of originality. Steam in general with all of its sales is a huge reason to why people are continuing to buy games and test out all of the awesome games they let people play for free on the weekends.   
 
Games like the Total War series, The Witcher 2, and Crysis 2 all have their places in the heats of the PC crowd.  But all of these other options are allowing people to see what PC games have to offer.  Sure, Facebook and flash games are taking a hold of the casual players and the "non-gamers".  But things like Steam help the people who do play PC games, or want to start playing them, realize the variety that the PC has to offer.  The PC is a constantly scaling platform that has full-on games and downloadable games all together in one neat bundle, turn yours on once and a while.