You should be able to gift games you already own when you buy packages such as these. The technology for them to do that is already there as can be attested to by the Orange Box. If you bought Half-Life 2 and then bought the orange box, you could gift your original copy to someone. It's not like Steam didn't get the money for the game, and if anything it would get more people into the idea of purchasing through them - You are not about to gift games to someone who would buy them anyway.
Also, again at FutureShop, a few great games landed in the "Last Chance" bin as I like to call it. The area of the store where games go to die a retail death in cramped jewel cased coffins or worse, simply cardboard. Here lay the grandma grabbers of casual persuasion that land in Christmas stockings, last minute purchases for Dad to justify why he was there and occasionally some good stuff.
- Titan Quest and TQ: Immortal Throne are together for a $10 purchase that any Diablo fan would be crazy to miss.
- Supreme Commander the smash Real-Time Strategy game is also available for $10, though not my kind of game.
- WarHammer 40,000: Dawn of War Gold Edition which also contains the Winter Assault expansion is a $10 buy as well.
A few other Indie Titles of note that are not on sale but are incredibly inexpensive:
- Lunnye Devitsy an exploratory platformer with some fantastic music from the maker of the Satan Sam series ($3.20).
- Time Gentlemen, Please! the sequel to the free Ben There, Dan That that initially looks cheap, but becomes quirky once the comedy kicks in ($2.99/$5ish).
