AU Deals: Steamy Spring Sale Must Owns, Console Store Gift Cards Reduced, Dirt Cheap AAAs, and More!

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Who’s acceptable to sprint-slide into immoderate ripper deals? Whether you're aft demon-slaying RPGs, chaotic room co-op, oregon open-world adventures, this week's gaming bargains person you covered. Of peculiar absorption is the ongoing Steam Spring Sale. It’s presently destroying my wallet. Allow maine to assistance it eviscerate yours too.

This Day successful Gaming 🎂

In retro news, I'm celebrating the 25th day of Fear Effect, a four-discer I adored astatine motorboat and would termination to spot revived again. The look was fundamentally an aboriginal Resi Evil/fixed camera matter that had much engaging stealth/gunplay, really decent dependable acting, a badass cyberpunk setting, and big imagery galore. The second made it reminiscent of aboriginal '90s anime for me—sweary, hard-boiled characters, goretastic decease cinematics, and immoderate instrumentality work (implied) nudity. Sadly, it doesn't clasp up good today, visually, acknowledgment to its unsocial fusion of 3D models with low-bitrate video backdrops.

Aussie bdays for notable games

- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter (N64) 1997. Redux

- Fear Effect (PS) 2000. eBay

- Heroes of Might and Magic III (PC) 2000. Redux

- Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2) 2005. Redux

- Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (PS2) 2006. eBay

- AC: Brotherhood (PS3, X360) 2010. Redux

- Ōkamiden (DS) 2011. eBay

- Homefront (PC, PS3, X360) 2011. Sequel

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Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch

Over connected the Switch, the Pokémon-inspired Shin Megami Tensei V (A$42, down 48%) lets you fuse demons into almighty allies. Meanwhile, Overcooked! 2 (A$10, down 75%) tests friendships similar nary different successful immoderate of the astir delicious semi-co-op you tin consume.

Shin Megami Tensei V

If you're looking for a meaty, demanding, endlessly deep, and wide outstanding JRPG to descend your teeth into, Shin Megami Tensei V has heaping portions of it. 8/10, great.

Crash Team Racing Nitro (-49%) - A$36
Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (-41%) - A$60
Mortal Kombat 1 (-45%) - A$34
Overcooked! 2 (-75%) - A$10
Ace Attorney Trilogy (-67%) - A$14

Expiring Recent Deals

Bravely Default II (-34%) - A$53
It Takes Two (-12%) - A$53
Octopath Traveler (-60%) - A$36
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen (-83%) - A$7
Monster Hunter Gen. Ult. (-80%) - A$16

Or acquisition a Nintendo eShop Card.

Purchase Cheap for PC

PC gamers, you've deed the jackpot with this Steam Sale. Hades (A$15, down 60%) is an indie masterpiece with a rogue-like loop truthful addicting it held maine successful thrall for weeks. Then there’s The Witcher 3: Complete Edition (A$16, down 80%). You haven’t lived a afloat gamer beingness until you’ve clocked it.

Lego Skywalker Saga

LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga provides immoderate rollicking reimaginings of Star Wars' astir iconic moments and seats them wrong a fantastic co-op experience. 8/10, great.

Spiritfarer (-90%) - A$5
Enter the Gungeon (-90%) - A$3
Witcher 3: Complete Ed. (-80%) - A$16
Ni No Kuni: WotWW (-85%) - A$12
Hades (-60%) - A$15
Half-Life: Alyx (-70%) - A$27
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (-75%) - A$25
Hogwarts Legacy (-73%) - A$25

Expiring Recent Deals

Undertale (-90%) - A$2
Mortal Shell (-100%) - FREE
Red Dead II (-78%) - A$20
Baldur's Gate 3 (-20%) - A$72
Balatro (-15%) - A$19
Elden Ring (-40%) - A$54
Doom 2016 (-90%) - A$4
Forza Horizon 5 (-50%) - A$45
EA Sports FC 25 (-70%) - A$33

Or conscionable get a Steam Wallet Card

Exciting Bargains for Xbox

On Xbox Series X, Gotham Knights (A$17, down 85%) offers crime-fighting enactment successful a (mostly) Batman-less Gotham. Meanwhile, Star Wars Outlaws (A$51, down 54%) delivered maine a satisfying scoundrel’s adventure. It’s blaster duels and speeder chases aplenty.

Assassin’s Creed Shadows

Slice your mode done the captivating unfastened satellite of feudal Japan, from spectacular castle towns and bustling ports to peaceful shrines and war-ravaged landscapes.

Avatar: FoP Gold Ed. (-63%) - A$59
Gotham Knights (-85%) - A$17
Star Wars Outlaws (-54%) - A$51
Lego Harry Potter Col. (-52%) - A$29

Xbox One

TopSpin 2K25 (-83%) - A$21
$50 Xbox Gift Card (-15%) - A$43
Red Dead Redemption 2 (-77%) - A$21
The Crew Motorfest (-33%) - A$67

Expiring Recent Deals

FF XII: Zodiac Age (-38%) - A$50
EA Sports FIFA 23 (-85%) - A$15
Destroy All Humans! 2 (-47%) - A$29
F1 24 (-37%) - A$69
SpellForce III Reforced (-34%) - A$43
Inside (-90%) - A$3
Limbo (-90%) - A$2
Mark of the Ninja: Rem. (-75%) - A$7

Or conscionable put successful an Xbox Card.

Pure Scores for PlayStation

PS5 players aren’t near retired either. Elden Ring (A$74, down 26%) is brutal but rewarding with its understated George R.R. Martin -crafted lore. Then there’s Suicide Squad (A$17, down 86%), a not peculiarly mind-blowing shooter that is nevertheless wholly worthy a trigger propulsion astatine this dirt-cheap price.

Elden Ring

Bottom line: Elden Ring's open-world exploration is simply a caller benchmark. It's perpetually exciting, rewarding, and afloat of moments that made maine spell "woahhh" (or curse aft I died portion gawking).