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"Steam Trading Cards will be available to all users later this week, Valve has announced. Currently in beta, the trading card system will be available from 7pm (UK time) on June 26.  Steam Trading Cards, which can be unlocked by playing games such as Team Fortress 2 and DOTA 2, can be traded for game badges, profile backgrounds, emoticons and coupons. Half of the cards can be earned by playing games, while the other half are unlocked by trading with the Steam community. Valve has promised to add trading cards to several new games at launch, and is working on a number of new features, such as trade offers and card binders. Announcing the news on the Steam community pages, Valve also teased an exciting event, thought to be its annual summer sale.   &amp;quot;Making trading cards available to all Steam users is a step towards an event we think everyone can be excited about...&amp;quot; reads the post. Last year&amp;#039;s Steam Summer Sale kicked off on July 12 and ended on July 22. The sale typically features discounted publisher bundles, as well as daily deals. Last year Valve introduced eight-hour flash deals, the contents of which were voted for by fans. Watch a trailer for Valve&amp;#039;s DOTA 2 below:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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