A digital distribution service owned by Valve Corporation. Originally created to distribute Valve's own games, Steam has since become the de facto standard for digital distribution of PC games.
@Andrela: The first Friday after Thanksgiving that signifies the start of Christmas retail sales. The word "Black" in the phrase has a few different meanings in this context, accountancy figures sliding upward from black to red, the amount of congestion caused by the number of shoppers in cars and on foot, more stress for employees. It's mainly used in the US.
Unless they offer a nice discount on Portal 2 pre-orders, I don't plan on buying any PC games. I just hope we don't get another Left4Dead 2 sale. Every time they do one, swarms of people that have no idea what they're doing flow right into versus and ruin the game for weeks.
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