I was playing games with my friends a few nights ago when all of a sudden Steam tells me I have a friend request from someone with a very interesting username...it read "Secret Santa 2015." Hmm, what could that be? Eschewing all that my parents taught me about talking to strangers, I accepted the friend request and started chatting with who I learned was my Secret Santa for the year.

He sent me a Steam code to redeem - nervously, I claimed it, and lo and behold I was the proud owner of Fallout 4! This Santa had done his homework, as I had just placed Fallout 4 on my wishlist a few weeks before, more as a pipe dream than anything else. I was blown away.

After that I got hit with another surprise - Firing up my computer two days later I was greeted with another notification! With the Autumn Steam Sale up and running, my Santa had gifted me two more games on my wishlist - Banished, which was #1 on my wishlist, and the final Civ 5 Expansion that I had up until this point been too lazy to purchase for myself. Once again, I was exceedingly happy.

Now, my Santa and I are friends on Steam (now he's on his REAL account) - turns out he had to do a lot of sleuthing to find my Steam username, and I loved how he ended up delivering the gifts.

Thanks man, this was a great second year for SS! I'm so excited to play Fallout 4 and Banished, and the Civ 5 expansion was extra meaningful - I play Civ with some of my close friends from college who are now spread throughout the US, and everyone had every expansion, except me. Now we can finally play together while taking advantage of every expansion!