AU Deals: Monster Hunter Wilds Bitten Down to 89 Bucks, Pay a Pittance for Potterverse AAAs, and More!

If your crippled room is looking a small sparse, now’s the cleanable clip to drawback immoderate implicit bangers astatine heavy discounted prices! Whether you’re aft high-speed action, epic RPG adventures, oregon heavy strategy experiences, this week’s deals person thing for each benignant of gamer.

This Day successful Gaming 🎂

In retro news, I'm celebrating the 21st day of a bid achromatic sheep that inactive sold galore a GameCube, Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. As a remake of the '98 PS classic, this was a beauteous surreal (and, successful parts, misguided) emotion letter. It was arsenic if Snake had emerged from a clip machine, equipped with the power strategy and acrobatics of MGS 2: Sons of Liberty. Helmed by Silicon Knights and injected with the "cinematic flair" of Hollywood enactment manager Ryuhei Kitamura, the extremity effect divided fans quicker than a cyber-ninja disarming Ocelot.

Upgrades similar first-person aiming and being capable to hang/drop from ledges were a double-edged sword. While they made Snake much almighty and adaptable, they besides turned sections of his Shadow Moses op into a cakewalk. The level design, primitively built for the PS1’s limitations, conscionable wasn’t afloat rebalanced to accommodate these caller mechanics, and immoderate re-recorded dependable performances weren't ideal. Be that arsenic it Mei [Ling], I inactive callback loving this astatine motorboat and adore the transcript I own.

Silicon Knights Dev: "In a gag reel we made them buss here!" Kojima, readying the extremity of this series: "Hmmm."

Aussie bdays for notable games

- Far Cry (PC) 2004. Get

- R-Type Final (PS2) 2004. Sequel

- MGS: The Twin Snakes (GC) 2004. eBay

- Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow (XB) 2004. eBay

- MX Unleashed (PS2,XB) 2004. Get

- MadWorld (Wii) 2009. eBay

Contents

• Nintendo
• Xbox
• PlayStation
• PC
• PC Gear
• LEGO
• Headphones
• TVs

Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch

Starting with the Nintendo Switch, Sonic Frontiers ($50, down 51%) brings the Blue Blur into open-world gameplay for the archetypal time, and amusive fact. Meanwhile, Octopath Traveler ($39, down 56%) dazzles with its HD-2D aesthetic, a ocular benignant truthful beloved that Square Enix adopted it for different games similar Triangle Strategy and the Live A Live remake.

• Sonic Frontiers (-51%) - A$50
• Rune Factory 5 (-27%) - A$56
• Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled (-31%) - A$49
• Fire Emblem Warriors: TH (-51%) - A$39

Expiring Recent Deals

• NBA 2k25 (-73%) - A$23
• Suikoden I&II HD (-14%) - A$69
• Sonic X Shadow Generations (-14%) - A$69
• Sonic forces (-38%) - A$37
• Skater XL (-42%) - A$35

Or acquisition a Nintendo eShop Card.

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Exciting Bargains for Xbox

Over connected Xbox Series X, magic and monsters await successful Hogwarts Legacy ($59, down 40%). Originally, the developers planned to fto players spell afloat Dark Wizard, but this was pared backmost to support things (somewhat) aligned with the Wizarding World’s tone. Alternatively, Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age ($40, down 50%) delivers the archetypal crippled successful the bid wherever you could wholly automate battles with the now-iconic Gambit system.

• Hogwarts Legacy (-40%) - A$59
• Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (-51%) - A$50
• Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (-50%) - A$40
• Metaphor: ReFantazio (-20%) - A$92

Xbox One

• Tiny Tina's Wonderlands (-61%) - A$40
• The Crew Motorfest (-47%) - A$54
• FIFA 23 (-85%) - A$15

Expiring Recent Deals

• Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (-19%) - A$89
• Witcher 3: Complete (-48%) - A$42
• Red Dead Redemption 2 (-73%) - A$24
• Star Wars Outlaws (-50%) - A$56
• RoboCop: Rogue City (-22%) - A$71
• Armored Core VI (-57%) - A$45
• Assassin's Creed: Mirage Del. (-60%) - A$36
• The Evil Within 2 (-75%) - A$10

Or conscionable put successful an Xbox Card.

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Pure Scores for PlayStation

PlayStation 5 players person plentifulness to descend their teeth into, with Persona 5 Royal ($59, down 39%) lasting retired arsenic a must-play RPG. The game’s stylish menus were really a idiosyncratic task by an animator who wanted to propulsion UI plan to its limits. If you’d alternatively deed the courts, TopSpin 2K25 ($24, down 77%) makes a racket with its hyper-realistic tennis mechanics—pro players adjacent consulted connected however the shot should behave successful antithetic conditions.

• Persona 5 Royal (-39%) - A$59
• Elden Ring: Nightreign (-16%) - A$59
• TopSpin 2K25 (-77%) - A$24
• Astro Bot (-19%) - A$89

PS4

• Dead Island 2 (-73%) - A$20
• Catherine: Full Body (-38%) - A$34
• EA Sports FC 25 (-37%) - A$69
• NBA 2K25 (-67%) - A$40

Expiring Recent Deals

• CoD: Black Ops 6 (-46%) - A$59
• Tales of Arise (-67%) - A$34
• Digimon World: N.O. (-54%) - A$39
• Red Dead Redemption (-44%) - A$39
• Resident Evil Village (-31%) - A$39
• The Callisto Protocol (-78%) - A$19
• Spidey: Miles Morales (-47%) - A$50
• Assassin's Creed Origins (-22%) - A$30

PS+ Monthly Freebies
Yours to support from Mar 4 with this subscription

• Dragon Age: Veilguard (PS5)
• Sonic Colours: Ultimate (PS4)
• TMNT: Cowabunga Col. (PS5/PS4)

Or acquisition a PS Store Card.

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Purchase Cheap for PC

PC gamers person immoderate stellar choices today. Cyberpunk 2077 ($36, down 60%) is the comeback king of gaming, having gone from a rocky motorboat to 1 of the astir critically praised RPGs of caller years. And if you similar expansive strategy, Stellaris ($16, down 77%) is simply a steal. Paradox primitively pitched this arsenic “Crusader Kings successful space”, and existent to that vision, you tin make everything from benevolent galactic federations to nightmarish cybernetic hiveminds.

• Stellaris (-77%) - A$16
• Cyberpunk 2077 (-60%) - A$36
• Atomfall (-22%) - A$58
• Human Fall Flat (-70%) - A$9
• The Ascent (-75%) - A$12
• Crysis Trilogy Remastered (-60%) - A$30

Expiring Recent Deals

• SteamWorld Dig 2 (-86%) - A$5
• Guacamelee! 2 (-75%) - A$8
• Huntdown (-80%) - A$6
• System Shock: Enhanced (-80%) - A$3
• Lego the lord of the rings (-80%) - A$6

Or conscionable get a Steam Wallet Card

Laptop Deals

• Apple 2024 MacBook Air 15-inch (-12%) – A$2,197
• HP Envy x360 16" 2-in-1 (-39%) – A$1,399
• Lenovo ThinkPad E16 Gen 2 (-40%) – A$1,129

Desktop Deals

• HP OMEN 35L Gaming (-10%) – A$2,799
• Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50q (-35%) – A$629
• Lenovo ThinkCentre neo 50s (-45%) – A$1,018

Monitor Deals

• Dell G Series G2724D (-27%) – A$398.60
• Samsung 57" Odyssey Neo Curved (-22%) – A$2,499

Component Deals

• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (-8%) – A$885.70
• Corsair Vengeance 32GB (-35%) – A$82
• Kingston FURY Beast 16GB (-30%) – A$48

Storage Deals

• Kingston 1TB USB 3.2 SSD (-14%) – A$119
• SanDisk 128GB Extreme PRO (-59%) – A$32
• SanDisk 32GB Ultra SDHC (-53%) – A$9.90

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Legit LEGO Deals

• 3in1 T. Rex (-35%) - A$39
• Research Submarine (-33%) - A$40
• Star Wars R2-D2 (-30%) - A$139
• Batmobile vs. Mr. Freeze (-27%) - A$22

Expiring Recent Deals

• City Electric Sports (-38%) - A$16
• Animal Crossing Nook’s Cranny (-33%) - A$80
• Icons Fountain Garden (-28%) - A$129

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Hot Headphones Deals

Audiophilia for less

• Samsung Galaxy Buds2 Pro (-34%) – A$229
• Sony MDR7506 Pro (-18%) – A$199
• Sony WH-CH720N (-47%) – A$139

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Terrific TV Deals

Do close by your console, upgrade your telly

• Kogan 65" QLED (-50%) – A$699
• Kogan 55" QLED (-45%) – A$549
• LG 55" UT80 4K (-28%) – A$869

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Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often connected YouTube.