Steam will be starting their Winter Sale on December 22, according to a webpage on a new promotional website from PayPal. The page doesn’t list any end date for the sale, but it’s probably a good guess that it will go through to the end of this year, and until January 1.

It also remains to be seen whether the Winter Sale will do away with the Daily Deals and Flash Sales that used to mark Steam Sales, and made people check the storefront obsessively every few hours, in case there was a deal that they absolutely couldn’t afford to miss on on their favorite games. Considering how successful the Fall Sale was for Valve, it’s probably a good guess that they’re gonna continue with the new format.

This isn’t the first time PayPal has leaked Steam sale start-dates, either. The company’s promotional web listings have tipped us off on when Steam sales will be starting in the past as well.

Stay tuned to GamingBolt for more coverage and information on the Steam sale.

One of these new ones was the announcement of yet another new IP from Nintendo- it’s called Codename STEAM, it’s for the 3DS, and it’s a new turn based strategy game from the makers of Fire Emblem that looks like it takes the best of XCOM and Valkyria Chronicles and mashes them up into one game. It’s got a steampunk setting, where you are part of a strike force led by Abraham Lincoln as you try to repel an alien invasion.

This was an absolutely unexpected new announcement, and it looks like Intelligent Systems is channeling its decades of experience with the Fire Emblem and Advance Wars series to make another new strategy game that seems to be equally compelling.

Codename STEAM is out for the 3DS in 2015.