AU Deals: I Was Not Planning to Buy Games Today, Then These Bargains Happened

I sat down to sanity cheque a fewer discounts and someway resurfaced hours aboriginal with a fuller wishlist and a lighter wallet. On Switch, Hades and Ori inactive consciousness similar magic tricks disguised arsenic games. Over connected Xbox Series X, Red Dead Redemption 2 and Monster Hunter Wilds are absurd worth for experiences that tin devour full weekends. PS5 is stacked with property this week acknowledgment to Astro Bot and Lies of P, portion PC softly delivers immoderate of the strongest agelong signifier RPG and enactment worth going around. Go get amongst it.

Contents

• Retro
• Nintendo
• Xbox
• PlayStation
• PC
• PC Gear
• LEGO

This Day successful Gaming 🎂

In retro news, it's been 26 years since I unpeeled escapade successful Donkey Kong 64, a crippled immoderate called the apical banana of Rare 3D platforming (I inactive similar Banjo Kazooie). At the time, it looked gorgeous, sounded astonishing (hello, DK Rap), and was overladen with crap to cod and unsocial quality Kongs to power between. Kong made a comeback rather precocious successful Donkey Kong Bananza, too. I dug it.

So they're yet here, performing for you. If you cognize the words, you tin articulation successful too...

Aussie birthdays for notable games.

- Earthworm Jim 2 (MD) 1995. Get

- Blast Corps (N64) 1997. Get

- Donkey Kong 64 (N64) 1999. Get

Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch

I support coming backmost to Switch deals that reward consciousness implicit fidelity. Tight design, expressive music, and games that respect your clip oregon gleefully bargain it anyway.

• Hades (-70%) A$11.20 Supergiant turning roguelike repetition into a strength, with reactive dialog and gods who retrieve your failures. I person finished this much times than I volition admit.
• Bravely Default II (-38%) A$49.10 Old schoolhouse JRPG systems with modern prime of beingness tweaks. Risk reward combat that really makes grinding interesting.
• Borderlands 3 Ult. (-50%) A$44.60 A noisy loot fountain with the champion gunplay the bid has managed. The penning misses sometimes, the shooting ne'er does.
• Ni No Kuni: WotW (-33%) A$59.90 Studio Ghibli vibes, sweeping music, and a combat strategy that rewards patience. Still 1 of the prettiest JRPG worlds around.
• Ori And The Blind Forest Def. A$7.40 A masterclass successful question and melancholy. Platforming that feels effortless erstwhile it clicks, backed by a soundtrack that sticks.

What's Big connected the Radar?
Current hotcakes selling

• Super Mario Galaxy 1 + 2 - $79
• Pokémon Legends: Z-A - $78
• Super Mario Party Jamboree - $64

Or acquisition a Nintendo eShop Card.

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Exciting Bargains for Xbox

This batch is each astir scale. Big worlds, large monsters, and games built to amusement disconnected what the hardware tin truly do.

• Monster Hunter Wilds (-64%) A$41.90 Methodical combat, absurd carnal design, and that acquainted loop of prep, hunt, celebrate, repeat. It is dangerously moreish.
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (-75%) A$22.40 Rockstar astatine its astir indulgent. Slow, deliberate, and emotionally heavier than astir unfastened satellite games situation to be.
• Hogwarts Legacy (-57%) A$47 The castle exploration is the existent prima here. Flying lessons and concealed passages inactive consciousness decently magical.
• DOOM: The Dark Ages (-59%) A$49 Brutal, fast, and gloriously unsubtle. DOOM experimenting with code without losing its alloy footwear to the look identity.
• Borderlands 4 (-59%) A$49 More refinement than reinvention, but the co op chaos inactive sings erstwhile the guns commencement flying.

Xbox One
Older hardware, inactive ridiculous value. These are contented affluent packages that property acold amended than expected.

• Diablo III: Eternal Col. (-54%) A$46.30 The astir approachable Diablo, packed with years of tuning and seasonal hooks that support pulling you back.
• Mass Effect Leg. Ed. (-90%) A$9.90 Three classical RPGs, cleaned up and inactive emotionally devastating. An each clip sci fi trilogy for pouch change.
• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (-85%) A$16.40 Stronger combat, bigger worlds, and a amazingly assured story. Cal Kestis truly comes into his ain here.

What's Big connected the Radar?
Headed retired the doorway quick

• Battlefield 6 - A$89
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds - A$89
• Borderlands 4 - A$99

Or conscionable put successful an Xbox Card.

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Pure Scores for PlayStation

Personality driven games predominate connected PS5 close now, with mechanical polish to lucifer the charm.

• Borderlands 4 (-59%) A$49 Better visuals, already fantabulous gunplay. Loud, silly, and technically slick.
• LEGO Horizon Adventures (-63%) A$21.90 A amazingly astute LEGO remix that pokes amusive astatine Horizon lore portion staying accessible for younger players.
• Hogwarts Legacy (-45%) A$59.90 Strong accumulation values and a mounting that does astir of the dense lifting. Still casual to get mislaid wandering Hogwarts.
• Astro Bot (-42%) A$64 A joyful showcase of PlayStation past and controller tech. Every level feels handcrafted with genuine affection.
• Lies Of P (-40%) A$51.10 A Soulslike that earns its confidence. Tough but just combat wrapped successful a amazingly coherent acheronian fairy tale.
• Death Stranding 2 (-54%) A$57 Kojima doubling down connected weirdness. Slower moments inactive deed hardest, particularly erstwhile the euphony swells conscionable right.

PS4
These PS4 deals are each astir dense storytelling and worth packed collections.

• Crisis Core FFVII Reunion (-58%) A$35.80 Zack Fair yet gets his polished moment. Combat feels modern, the calamity inactive lands.
• Mafia Trilogy (-56%) A$44 Three transgression dramas that prioritise ambiance implicit unfastened satellite busywork. Mafia II remains the standout.
• Neo: The World Ends With You (-53%) A$39.90 Stylish, loud, and unapologetically anime. Combat systems furniture beautifully erstwhile the afloat enactment opens up.

What's Big connected the Radar?
Fast movers shifting

• COD Black Ops 7 - A$89
• Battlefield 6 - A$89
• Borderlands 4 - A$99

Or acquisition a PS Store Card.

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Purchase Cheap for PC

If you privation sheer hours per dollar, PC softly wins again this week.

• Like A Dragon: Pirate Yakuza In Hawaii (-64%) A$36.40 Ridiculous broadside stories, heartfelt transgression drama, and present pirates. RGG Studio refusing to play it safe.
• LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (-90%) A$6.90 A silly, charming velocity tally done the full saga. Packed with jokes and collectibles.
• Dead Space (-85%) A$13.40 The remake nails hostility and dependable design. Still 1 of the champion examples of endurance fearfulness pacing.
• The Witcher III Comp. (-80%) A$15.70 Blood and Wine unsocial justifies the price. A landmark RPG that inactive embarrasses newer unfastened worlds.
• Hades (-70%) A$10.90 Fast, fluid combat and penning that adapts to however you play. It deserves each accolade it received.
• Hollow Knight (-50%) A$10.90 Deep exploration, brutal bosses, and lore that rewards curiosity. An indie benchmark.

Or conscionable get a Steam Wallet Card

Legit LEGO Deals

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Just similar I did past vacation season, I'm getting festive with the LEGO section. In Mathew Manor, my sons and I are again racing / standing 2025's batch of LEGO Advent Calendars. Basically, we unfastened the City, Harry Potter, Minecraft, and Star Wars ones regular and comparison the mini-prizes for "Awesomeness" and "Actual Xmas-ness". 2024's victor was the Lego Marvel one, but, weirdly, there's nary 2025 equivalent. So it's anybody's contention this year.

Here are the cheapest prices for the 4 calendars we're using. Score them yourself oregon conscionable unrecorded vicariously done our unboxings.

• LEGO CIty Advent 2025 - A$59.95 $45
• LEGO Harry Potter Advent 2025 - A$59.95 $45
• LEGO Minecraft Advent 2025 - A$59.95 $45
• LEGO Star Wars Advent 2025 - A$59.95 $45

Adam Mathew is simply a passionate connoisseur, a lifelong crippled critic, and an Aussie deals wrangler who genuinely wants to hook you up with worldly that's worthy playing (but besides cheap). He plays practically everything, sometimes connected YouTube.