It may be mid-July, but the sales heat hasn’t let up. If anything, it feels like someone at Amazon left the discount lever stuck in overdrive post-Prime Day. From cult classics to critically-acclaimed reboots, there’s a little something for every controller-clutcher this week.
This Day in Gaming 🎂
In retro news, I’m lighting a 26‑candle cake for Silent Hill, the fog‑laden survival horror fest that kept ’99-era me perched on a seat with barely 2% of the surface area of one butt cheek. I still remember tentatively sweeping my flashlight across those grainy, polygonal streets, only to have the beam half illuminate some scurrying something in the dark.
Though the OG Resident Evil certainly vexed me first, the unique magic of Silent Hill lay in how its graphical limitations—thick fog and encroaching darkness—became tools of terror rather than platform limitations. Every ring of static from your radio or *that* air raid siren heralding the “other plane” of this madhouse could ratchet up the dread in an instant. Lastly, I recall working game retail at launch and having to help absolutely bloody everybody with a solution to the piano puzzle.
Aussie birthdays for notable games.
– Silent Hill (PS) 1999. Redux
– Marvel vs. Capcom 2 (DC) 2000. Redux
– Pokémon Box: Ruby and Sapphire (GC) 2004.
– The Conduit (Wii) 2009. eBay
– Monster Hunter Generations (3DS) 2016. eBay
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Nice Savings for Nintendo Switch
Nintendo is dishing out banana-flavoured nostalgia with Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze dropping in price. Retro Studios added Funky Kong as a playable character in the Switch version, mainly so kids (and parents) could cruise through the punishing levels more easily. Also worth nabbing is Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled, which includes every track from the original PS1 classic plus content from its GBA sequel (a neat nod to fans who stuck around through the platform-hopping years).
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Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card.
Exciting Bargains for Xbox
On Xbox, Sniper Elite 5 is half a tactical shooter and half a gruesome anatomy lesson. That slow-mo X-ray kill cam was inspired by Mortal Kombat’s Fatality system, and yes, it still makes people squirm. Meanwhile, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom is a modern Wonder Boy sequel blessed by original series creator Ryuichi Nishizawa, making it one of the rare spiritual successors with actual lineage cred.
Xbox One
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Or just invest in an Xbox Card.
Pure Scores for PlayStation
Over on PlayStation, Dead Space’s lavish remake channels the claustrophobic terror of the original, but with vastly improved dismemberment physics. Meanwhile, Hogwarts Legacy lets you explore the famous castle 100 years before Harry’s bedtime, and yes, Peeves is still a menace.
PS4
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- NBA 2K25 | PS5, PS4
- Alone in the Dark (2024) | PS5
- Bomb Rush Cyberfunk | PS5, PS4
- Destiny 2: The Final Shape | PS5, PS4
Or purchase a PS Store Card.
Purchase Cheap for PC
PC gets philosophical this week with Disco Elysium, a game whose creators hired an actual philosopher to help write its mind-bending dialogue trees. Now that’s commitment.
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Or just get a Steam Wallet Card
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Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube.