AU Deals: Non Black Friday, Blink and You’ll Miss 'Em Bargains

Welcome back, chap bargain hunter. From karting chaos to murderous Vikings, strategy disasters to fearfulness that’ll haunt your sleep, this idle Wednesday's deals are present to punctual you that self-control is optional and retail therapy is mandatory. Grab a seat, drawback a wallet, and effort not to outcry erstwhile I marque your “just browsing” excuse neglect spectacularly.

Contents

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

This Day successful Gaming 🎂

In retro news, it's someway been 26 years since I prepared for my finest hr successful Medal of Honor, a pivotal PS FPS that I inactive drawback a salute to. After reinvigorating WWII successful fashionable civilization with Saving Private Ryan, Spielberg and DreamWorks Interactive utilized that beachhead to conceive, produce, and constitute a much kid gloves companion portion game. End result: they triggered a decades-long landslide of shooters themed connected virtually each large conflict undertaken by The Greatest Generation (not to notation the unintended instauration of a rival Call of Duty franchise).

Personally, I adored the Nazi-blasting, disguise-wearing OSS saboteur antics of MoH. Few games of the epoch looked, felt, and sounded this cinematic. A existent classic, and its archetypal trailer inactive slaps.

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Aussie birthdays for notable games.

- Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse (NES) 1992. eBay

- Final Fight (SNES) 1992. Get

- Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (SNES) 1992. Redux

- Doom (PC) 1993. Redux

- Resident Evil: Director’s Cut (PS) 1997. Redux

- Medal of Honor (PS) 1999. Get

- Stranded Kids (PS) 1999. Get

- Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks (DS) 2009. Get

Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch

• Mario Kart World (-26%) - A$89 - *Low stock* Race your mates, rotation out, and unreal those bluish shells weren’t idiosyncratic attacks. Fun, chaotic, and hilariously unfair.
• Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (-31%) - A$59 - Speed, loops, and chaos wrapped successful bluish hedgehog energy. Fast reflexes optional, screaming astatine friends likely.
• Donkey Kong Bananza (-19%) - A$89 - Big ape stomps, barrels fly, and your thumbs wounded earlier the archetypal banana is collected. Worth it for the destructo-tech alone.
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land NS2 (-18%) - A$89.90 - Cute, squishy, and perpetually inhaling everything successful sight. Kirby ne'er apologises, and neither volition you.
• Bluey: The Videogame (-27%) - A$44 - Family-friendly chaos wherever dogs wag, toddlers cheer, and adults unreal they’re not crying from sheer cuteness.

Or acquisition a Nintendo eShop Card.

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Exciting Bargains for Xbox

• Mafia: The Old Country (-34%) - A$49 - Suits, cigars, and transgression sprees. Kill your rivals successful a much than decent revenge communicative and talk with acold excessively overmuch manus waving.
• Dishonored Def. ed. (-58%) - A$10.50 - Sneak, stab, and chaos your mode done a metropolis that perfectly hates you. Oldie but a greatie.
• Unicorn Overlord Monarch ed. (-65%) - A$39.50 - Strategy with sparkle. Crush foes, regularisation kingdoms, and marque magical ponies jealous.
• XCOM 2 (-95%) - A$3.40 - Aliens, tactics, and imperishable death. Your soldiers volition cry, you volition cry, the aliens don’t care.
• Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Del. ed. (-80%) - A$25.90 - Pillage, raid, and turn a beard. Hours of Viking chaos packed successful 1 epic package.

Or conscionable put successful an Xbox Card.

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Pure Scores for PlayStation

• Ghost of Yotei (-21%) - A$99 - Haunting, slick, and atmospheric. Perfect for erstwhile you privation to plaything swords and brood astatine the aforesaid time.
• Mafia: The Old Country (-46%) - A$49 - A much intimate, non-sandbox attack to crim-simming. Meticulously elaborate and I personally couldn't enactment it down.
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 (-40%) - A$44.90 - Skate fast, grind rails, and punctual everyone you utilized to beryllium cool.
• Gran Turismo 7 (-50%) - A$63 - Cars look amended than your dreams, and driving is mode much forgiving than reality. A-w-e-s-o-m-e successful VR.
• Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart (-50%) - A$62.40 - Colourful, chaotic, and a bizarre weapon lover’s bedewed dream. Warp done worlds, detonate stuff, repeat.

Or acquisition a PS Store Card.

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Purchase Cheap for PC

• RoboCop: Rogue City (-90%) - A$6.30 - Justice served with a broadside of bullets and a cocky gunslinger twirl. I'd bargain this for a dollar. Six of them, too.
• Blasphemous 2 (-67%) - A$14.80 - Grim, gory, and perfectly gorgeous. Pixel creation with pain, fundamentally a spiritual experience.
• Slay the Spire (-75%) - A$9.20 - Card-based agony that someway feels rewarding. You volition suffer repeatedly and emotion each second.
• No Man's Sky (-60%) - A$35.10 - Infinite planets, procedural chaos, and hours of “why is this my beingness now?” exploration.
• The Medium (-70%) - A$22.70 - Haunting dual-world puzzles that marque you question your beingness choices. Perfect for erstwhile you similar fearfulness with a broadside of clever.

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