Avalanche of Deals Hit Steam; Daily Promotions and Publisher Bundles Included

If holiday sales were rated by impact, Steam just delivered the equivalent of two, knockout-caliber black eyes. Hundreds of games are on sale right now from the popular digital distribution platform, beginning today and running until January 2.

While ongoing sales will pepper the general sale items throughout the period, a number of daily deals are available to help users pad their digital gaming library or give the gift of completely green video game giving. Steam is also offering a new "Holiday Bonus" deal per day, which will further discount a select title if users meet a specific criteria.

Today's bonus offer is an additional 10% off Portal (it's already discounted by 75% as part of today's daily deals) for users who already own Half-Life 2 on their Steam account. That's 85% off! Too bad 97.3% of you already own it.

The daily deals for the first day of Steam's Holiday Sale are:

• Super Meat Boy - $3.75 (75% off from $14.99)

• F1 2010 - $19.99 (50% off from $39.99)

• Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition - $20.09 (33% off from $29.99)

• F.E.A.R. Complete Pack - $9.99 (75% off from $39.97)
  • F.E.A.R. - $2.49 (75% off from $9.99)

  • F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin - $4.99 (75% off from $19.99)(Also includes Extraction Point and Perseus Mandate expansion for F.E.A.R. and Reborn DLC for F.E.A.R. 2)

• Peggle Complete - $7.99 (60% off from $19.98)
  • Peggle Deluxe - $3.99 (60% off from $9.99)

  • Peggle Nights - $3.99 (60% off from $9.99)

• Portal - $3.75 (75% off from $14.99)
  • *Portal - $2.25 (85% off from $14.99) *Price valid for Half-Life 2 owners

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - $6.79 (66% off from $19.99)

• Titan Quest Gold - $4.99 (75% off from $19.99)
  (Includes Titan Quest and Titan Quest: Immortal Throne)

• The Oddbox - $12.49 (50% off from $24.99)
  (Includes Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus $2.50, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee $2.50, Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee $4.99, and Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath $7.49)

• Deus Ex Complete - $2.99 (85% off from $19.99)
  (Includes Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War)

• LEGO Batman - $4.99 (75% off from $19.99)

• Prince of Persia Titles - 75% off each individual title
  • Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands - $4.99 (75% off from $19.99)

  • Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands (Digital Deluxe Edition) - $7.49 (75% off from $29.99)

  • Prince of Persia [2008] - $4.99 (75% off from $19.99)

  • Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - $2.49 (75% off from $9.99)

  • Prince of Persia: Warrior Within - $2.49 (75% off from $9.99)

  • Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones - $2.49 (75% off from $9.99)

Those who prefer to buy in bulk can grab publisher library bundle packs, including sets from 2K Games, THQ, Epic Games, Bethesda Softworks, Rockstar Games, Valve Software, and Square Enix/Eidos.