As the countdown ticks on, Valve confirms the Summer 2022 Sale will get underway on Steam on Thursday, as planned. There's a Steam Trading Cards and Badges in which SirActionSlacks explains the various non-nonfungible tokens this will involve. We also have this teaser from Valve that hints at other goodies that will be part of the festivities:

The Steam Summer Sale returns June 23 - July 7 with deals on all sorts of games. And with just a few days before it kicks off, we thought we'd prepare you for all of the EXTRA fun there is to be had:

• Trading cards!
• Badges!
• Clorthax!

OK so Clorthax* refuses to say hi until you first show up to the sale, so that part's on him. But the other two, we've got you covered ahead of time with a video that shows just how smashingly fun it can be to collect trading cards and create badges!

See you June 23 at 10am PT - July 7th at 10am PT for the Steam Summer Sale!

-The Steam Team

*What we can tell you is Clorthax comes from the same minds behind such hits as:

• Aperture Desk Job
• The Steam Summer Sale 2021
• Portal 2

**No sellable functioning hardware was damaged in the making of this video.