Fellow bargain hunters, assemble! Its time to seize some of the best gaming deals currently up for grabs across Nintendo Switch, PC, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5. Whether youre after a spellbinding Wizarding World adventure, a co-op masterpiece, or a pawn filled ARPG romp, theres something here for everyone at a fantastic price. Enough premable, though, let's just dive into the best Aussie deals for Thursday, February 13, below:This Day in Gaming In Underrated Series That Should Have Endured news, Im using a Fire Doomstrike to light 21 candles on a cake baked for Maximo vs. Army of Zin. Technically a sequel that lacks a 2 in its title, this hack n slash 3D platformer was just good old-fashioned Ghosts n Goblinsesque fun. What didnt change but I adored: taking damage would make Maximo drop trou into his hearts-ahoy boxer shorts. What was introduced and appreciated: the power fantasy of becoming your companion, Grim (as in Reaper).When you're born with Maximo strength: 1 weak hit = decapitation.Aussie bdays for notable games- SimCity 3000 (PC) 1999. Get- Maximo vs. Army of Zin (PS2) 2004. eBay- Lightning Returns: FF XIII (PS3,X360) 2014 Get- Tetris 99 (NS) 2019. eBayContentsNice Savings for Nintendo SwitchHogwarts LegacyWith its captivating new characters, intricate and difficult fighting, and a masterfully rendered Hogwarts student fantasy, this open-world adventure captures the magic and thrill of the Wizarding World like no other. 9/10, amazing.Rune Factory 5 (-42%) - A$44Monster Hunter Rise (-75%) - A$14.98Borderlands Legendary Col. (-80%) - A$17.99Sniper Elite 4 (-80%) - A$12Just Dance 2025 (-44%) - A$39Fantasian Neo Dimension (-19%) - A$77Expiring Recent DealsCitizen Sleeper (-70%) - A$9Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star (-90%) - A$6.99Street Fighter 30th Ann. (-67%) - A$13.18NBA 2K25 (-75%) - A$25BioShock: The Collection (-80%) - A$17.99Or gift a Nintendo eShop Card.Switch Console PricesHow much to Switch it up?Switch OLED + Mario Wonder: $539 $499 | Switch Original: $499 $448 | Switch OLED Black: $539 $448 | Switch OLED White: $539 $448 | Switch Lite: $329 $312 | Switch Lite Hyrule: $339 $335See itBack to topPurchase Cheap for PCBYO Sim Collection2/3/5 items for $11.40/$10.52/$9.12 and pick from Session: Skate Sim Supporter Edition, City Game Studio: Your Game Dev Adventure Begins, F1 Manager 2023, Bus Simulator 21 Next Stop, Tavern Master Complete, Inn Tycoon, and more.See it at FanaticalIt Takes Two (-80%) - A$9.99Logitech G203 mouse (-54%) - A$32.30Logitech G502 X mouse (-37%) - A$158Dead Space (-75%) - A$22.48Teardown (-51%) - A$21.54Dead by Daylight (-60%) - A$11.58Expiring Recent DealsRoad Redemption (-85%) - A$4.34TESO: Morrowind GOTY (-75%) - A$4.98CoD: Black Ops III (-67%) - A$29.68Sackboy: A Big Adventure (-64%) - A$34.65Dying Light (-70%) - A$9.58Dead by Daylight (-60%) - A$11.58Or just get a Steam Wallet CardPC Hardware PricesSlay your pile of shame.Official launch in NovSteam Deck 256GB LCD: $649 | Steam Deck 512GB OLED: $899 | Steam Deck 1TB OLED: $1,049See it at SteamBack to topExciting Bargains for XboxDragons Dogma 2DD2 retells and reimplements some great concepts from the 2012 cult favorite, including a fantastic dynamic world and some of the genre's best combat that incorporates a subtly intricate physics system. 8/10, great.Crash Team Rumble Del. (-50%) - A$10Fatal Fury: CotW Special Ed. (-21%) - A$79Top Spin 2K25 (-60%) - A$24Hot Wheels Unleashed (-28%) - A$39.55GTA V Premium Ed. (-52%) - A$24Duke Nukem 3D 30th Ann. (-90%) - A$2.69Expiring Recent DealsPGA Tour 2K25 (-17%) - A$99CoD: MW2 (-55%) - A$49Civilization VII (-17%) - A$99Armored Core VI (-61%) - A$39.58Red Dead Redemption II (-68%) - A$29Or just invest in an Xbox Card.Xbox Console PricesHow many bucks for a 'Box? Series X: $799 $749 | Series S Black: $549 $545 | Series S White:$499 $498 | Series S Starter: N/ASee itBack to topPure Scores for PlayStationDualSense EdgeTake it from an owner and operator of one of these. The DualSense Edge is a brilliant, premium controller thats not often discounted.Expiring Recent DealsWitcher 3: GOTY (-30%) - A$35PGA Tour 2K25 (-17%) - A$99Persona 3 Reload (-46%) - A$57.51Civilization VII (-17%) - A$99PS+ Monthly FreebiesYours to keep from Feb 4 with this subscriptionPayday 3 [PS5]High on Life [PS4/5]Pac-Man World Re-Pac [PS4/5]Or purchase a PS Store Card.What you'll pay to 'Station.PS5 Slim Disc:$799 $798 | PS5 Slim Digital:679 $678 | PS5 Pro $1,199 | PS VR2: $872 | PS VR2 + Horizon: $1,099 | PS Portal: $329See itBack to topLegit LEGO DealsStar Wars GroguThis faithfully reproduced Grogu figure features dial-operated arms, a posable head and ears, and can be displayed in or out of his hover pram.Expiring Recent DealsBack to topSuperb Snacks DealsBecause you need fuel. Delicious and discounted.Back to top Adam Mathew is our Aussie deals wrangler. He plays practically everything, often on YouTube.

OpenAI SeasonAs the AI industry gets more and more crowded and its hype more diffuse OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has quietly announced that the company won't be releasing its super-advanced new reasoning model as a standalone product.In a statement posted on his arch-nemesis Elon Musk's social network, Altman wrote circuitously around the previously slated launch of o3, the latest awkwardly-named version of its frontier reasoning model that's said to sometimes cost more than $1,000 worth of computing power per query."In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3," the CEO said. "We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model."That buried bit of the lengthy statement is, as TechCrunch flagged, a stark reversal from recent comments from OpenAI executives who claimed that o3's full, standalone launch was slated for launch in February or March.According to Altman, this product launch mixup is part of a greater drive to simplify what OpenAI is selling."We realize," he wrote, "how complicated our model and product offerings have gotten."Be that as it may, scuttling o3 this close to its purported launch and so soon after the Chinese AI company DeepSeek issued a ringing blow to OpenAI and every other mainstream AI company with its claims of a low-energy, high-powered chatbot seems telling.Since unleashing ChatGPT onto the world in November 2022, OpenAI has struggled to create as many waves as that first world-changing announcement. With each subsequent GPT large language model (LLM) launch being incorporated into the company's suite of products, there has, of course, been ample splash but with each new one, there's been demonstrably less.With its claims of self-fact-checking, the launch of o1 last fall indeed got some splash. But it faded quickly and when's the last time you heard about something actually exciting happening with it?Were Altman et al looking to avoid a bellyflop if o3 didn't turn out to be as much of a step forward as its predecessors? At this point, we'll probably never know but one thing's for sure: a lot is going to be riding on whether GPT-5 can really break through.More on OpenAI hype: Researchers Replicate OpenAI's Hot New AI Tool in 24 HoursShare This Article

Kanye PressedInstead of being allowed to condemn Kanye West's brazen anti-Semitism herself, Scarlett Johansson had words put in her mouth by AI and now, she's once again calling out the technology.AsThe Hill reports, the "Lost in Translation" actress is affronted that an anonymously-created AI-generated video that went viral condemningWest for his increasingly bizarre pro-Nazi posts, was made in the first place."I am a Jewish woman who has no tolerance for antisemitism or hate speech of any kind," the 40-year-old A-Lister said in a statement. "But I also firmly believe that the potential for hate speech multiplied by AI is a far greater threat than any one person who takes accountability for it.""We must call out the misuse of AI, no matter its messaging," she continued, "or we risk losing a hold on reality."Unfortunately, Johansson is all too familiar with the dangers presented by this burgeoning technology.Towards the end of 2023, the "Black Widow" star accused OpenAI of cloning her voice which she used in her inimitable performance of an AI in 2013's "Her" without her consent. Not long after, she said the company had asked her to use her voice, and even though she declined, OpenAI went forward with using "Sky," an eerily similar-sounding voice assistant, anyway."I was shocked, angered, and in disbelief that [OpenAI CEO Sam Altman] would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine," Johannson wrote in a May 2024 statement, "that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference."After the actress threatened legal action, Altman ultimately "paused" the Sky voice "out of respect." Soon after, a forensic analysis found that Johannson's voice and Sky's showed overwhelming similarities, which likely would formed a strong case had the thespian pursued it.With that fiasco nearly forgotten, Johannson has once again been subjected to AI using her likeness without her consent. Unfortunately, it will probably happen again unless these sorts of things become punishable by law.Share This Article

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I love Connections. And also, I hate Connections. The NYT Connections puzzle makes me feel smart when I solve it, and like a complete bozo when I blow it. (CNET posts daily answersfor Connections, Wordle, Strands, Connections: Sports Edition, and the Mini Crossword if you need some help.)The New York Times released Connections in June 2023 in beta, and it soon became thesecond-most-played game the Times has, behind only the mighty Wordle. The puzzle gives you 16 words, and you have to fit them into four groups of four. It throws you plenty of red herrings. A word can fit into multiple groups, but there's only one solution that allows all the words to find a group.Apparently, there's an online word-game tool called Word Unscrambler (guess what it does!), and the people behind this site have analyzed Google searches where people were looking for the phrase "Connections hint" from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2024."Americans search 2.4 million times a month for Connections hints," a site spokesperson said. "Connections hints are being searched 2.4 times more than Wordle hints."The ultimate, toughest, brain-bustingest Connections puzzle ever? According to the Google searches, it was May 12, 2024. The unsolved puzzle appears at the top of this story, and the answers are below.I can see why it's a tough one. There are a LOT of three-letter words, four of which are classed together as acronyms, two of which fit in another category altogether. Screenshot of the completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 12, 2024. This puzzle was judged the toughest of all of 2024 by a site's Google analysis. NYT/Screenshot by CNETAnd there are a number of words that could go into an animal category (Kid! Mule!) but that the game places in other categories.As you can see, the categories are Playfully Poke Fun At (KID, NEEDLE, RIB, TEASE), Cuts of Beef (CHUCK, FLANK, LOIN, ROUND), Acronyms (MIA, OMG, PIN, RAM), Cocktails Minus Place Names (LIBRE, MAMA, MULE, SLING).The second-toughest Connections puzzle, according to the analysis, came just one week to the day before, on May 5, 2024. That puzzle's categories and answers were Something Gained From Hard Work (BENEFIT, FRUIT, RETURN, REWARD), Kinds of Bagel (EGG, EVERYTHING, PLAIN, POPPY), Contribute to a Movie (ACT, DIRECT, PRODUCE, WRITE), Starts of Monsters (FRANK, MUM, VAMP, WERE).The Word Unscrambler site also sorted its searches by state, and the May 12, 2024, puzzle topped the toughness list in 36 states.

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