AU Deals: Quality Games, Aggressive Discounts, Zero Filler

In this week’s deals haul, I fell down the acquainted rabbit spread of "just checking prices" and someway emerged with a shortlist of games I person already sunk irresponsible hours into. Some of these are comfortableness food, immoderate are agelong overdue, and a fewer are cleanable excuses to cancel play plans. No regrets.

Contents

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

This Day successful Gaming 🎂

In retro news, I’m utilizing a precision railgun changeable to simultaneously airy 26 candles connected a barroom baked for Quake III Arena. I person highly fond memories of my older, vastly much employed member gathering his archetypal PC to play this astatine motorboat arsenic I watched connected in awe. It was an implicit batcomputer of a rig packing a Pentium II 266 MHz, 64MB RAM, and a beastly 4MB video card. The second was precise overmuch needed because, dissimilar astir different games released astatine the time, the idTech3 motor demanded an OpenGL-compliant graphics accelerator to run.

From the archetypal FMV frames of a stogie-chewin’ Sarge making his past stand, I was hooked. The Quake bid wasn’t truly known for its communicative depth, truthful pinging astir a meticulously crafted Thunderdome with 15 different bots/players was a clever pare backmost of each the puzzle solvin’ and cardinal findin ‘for pure, unadulterated killin’ astatine a greased lightning pace. Never shall I hide those all-nighter LANs, the arsey rocket jumps, and railgun duelling crossed The Longest Yard.

Sarge astir to discharge.

Aussie birthdays for notable games.

- Quake III Arena (PC) 1999. Get

- Spyro 2: Gateway to Glimmer (PS) 1999. eBay

- Racing Gears Advance (GBA) 2004. eBay

- Metal Slug Advance (GBA) 2004. eBay

- Tekken 6 (PSP) 2009. eBay

- Tales From the Borderlands (PS3/4) 2014. Get

Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch

On Switch, this batch covers chaos, catharsis, and comfortableness food. Whether you privation sofa rivalries, moody JRPG psyche searching, oregon a magical schoolhouse phantasy that perfectly knows its audience, these are each casual recommends astatine these prices.

• Mario Kart 8 Del. (-26%) A$59 Still the champion enactment racer ever made. I person played hundreds of races and inactive get ammunition daze each clip I deed 2nd place.
• Shin Megami Tensei V (-60%) A$40.30 Brutal, stylish, and perfectly uninterested successful holding your hand. Pokemon for radical who bask consequences and doctrine homework.
• Pokemon Violet (-25%) A$60 Rough edges aside, the unfastened satellite look works. I accidentally mislaid an full play chasing shinies and felt zero shame.
• Everybody's Golf Hot Shots (-33%) A$47 Golf that remembers games should beryllium fun. Perfect for zoning retired portion inactive pretending you are bully astatine sports.
• Hogwarts Legacy (-51%) A$44 A wizard phantasy that perfectly nails atmosphere. I spent acold excessively agelong ignoring quests conscionable to research corridors.

Or acquisition a Nintendo eShop Card.

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Exciting Bargains for Xbox

On Series X, this batch swings hard. Big unfastened worlds, choky competitory fighters, and immoderate aged schoolhouse FPS vigor that refuses to dice quietly.

• Assassin's Creed Shadows (-55%) A$49.90 Stealth yet feels chill again. I really planned assassinations alternatively of sprinting and hoping for the best.
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Heart of Chornobyl (-40%) A$53.90 Hostile, moody, and profoundly stressful. Exactly however fans wanted it. Do not expect mercy oregon tutorials.
• Painkiller (-42%) A$34.90 Dumb, loud, and gloriously fast. Sometimes you conscionable privation demons, metal, and zero communicative responsibility.
• Far Cry 6 (-80%) A$19.90 A gorgeous messiness with moments of brilliance. At this price, the chaos is much than worthy it.
• Street Fighter 6 (-50%) A$31.40 The champion Street Fighter has felt successful decades. Accessible, deep, and dangerously bully for your ego.

Xbox One

• Dying Light 2 Stay Human (-52%) A$47.90 Parkour inactive slaps and the nights are inactive terrifying. Play with friends oregon judge your fearfulness alone.
• Monster Hunter Rise (-80%) A$11.30 One of the champion enactment RPGs ever made astatine a laughable price. Say goodbye to your escaped time.
• Yoku's Island Express (-85%) A$4 A pinball platformer that should not enactment but perfectly does. Pure joyousness from commencement to finish.

Or conscionable put successful an Xbox Card.

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Pure Scores for PlayStation

PS5 owners get a stacked lineup here, from prestige blockbusters to softly superb surprises.

• Ghost of Yotei (-21%) A$99 Stunning presumption and deliberate combat. This 1 rewards patience and vibes implicit fastener mashing.
• Prince of Persia The Lost Crown (-70%) A$24 Ubisoft accidentally made a masterpiece. Tight combat, clever platforming, zero filler.
• Kingdom Come Deliverance II (-57%) A$49 Historically close misery, present adjacent better. You volition suffer fights, arguments, and dignity.
• Rainbow Six Siege Del. (-74%) A$12.90 Tactical chaos that inactive has legs. Communication optional, panic guaranteed.
• Split Fiction (-33%) A$47 A clever communicative hook that sticks the landing. I did not expect to attraction this much.
• Pulse Explore Wireless Earbuds (-15%) A$278 Expensive, yes, but fantabulous spatial audio. My ears noticed the upgrade immediately.

PlayStation 4

• Red Dead Redemption 2 (-74%) A$23 One of the champion stories successful games. Slow, deliberate, and emotionally devastating.
• Lies of P (-37%) A$53 Soulslike combat with existent confidence. Hard, fair, and acold amended than it has immoderate close to be.
• Divinity Original Sin 2 Def. (-75%) A$21.20 One of the smartest RPGs ever made. I restarted 3 times and loved each second.

Or acquisition a PS Store Card.

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Purchase Cheap for PC

PC players perfectly cleanable up this week, with horror, absurdity, and enactment each profoundly discounted.

• Silent Hill f (-53%) A$54.90 A bold caller absorption for the series. Creepy successful ways that linger agelong aft you unopen it down.
• Silent Hill 2 (-62%) A$38.90 A respectful remake that understands the original. Still profoundly uncomfortable successful the champion way.
• Dave the Diver (-58%) A$12.50 Cozy chaos perfection. I meant to play for 20 minutes and resurfaced 4 hours later.
• Katamari Damacy Reroll (-66%) A$9.80 Weird, wonderful, and intolerable to explain. Just rotation the shot and spot the process.
• Resident Evil 4 (-66%) A$20.30 The golden modular for remakes. Tense, modernised, and inactive an implicit thrill.
• RoboCop Rogue City (-90%) A$6.30 Shockingly faithful and mode amended than expected. I laughed, past stayed for the gunplay.

Or conscionable get a Steam Wallet Card

Legit LEGO Deals

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 this year's batch of LEGO Advent Calendars. Basically, we unfastened the City, Harry Potter, Minecraft, and Star Wars connected the 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