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Ubisoft is often criticizes for doing the same thing over and over again. Far Cry, Assassin’s Creed, Rainbow Six… franchises with numerous spin-offs and little innovation. But the publisher’s history also includes some unexpected gems that hardly anyone has played. If you fancy trying out one of these gems, you’re in luck because Ubisoft is currently giving away one such title: the open-world game Immortals Fenyx Rising, which released in 2020 and is still quite playable today. What is Immortals Fenyx Rising? This game is not the umpteenth installment in a game series, but rather something completely new. The studio Ubisoft Quebec was allowed to create a completely new fantasy world inspired by Greek mythology, which it takes up in a humorous way. In the story trailer, Zeus and Prometheus fight over who gets to tell the story. Our main character Fenyx, a young warrior, sets out in the game to defeat the forefather of all monsters Typhon and save her brother in the process. Not an easy task, but luckily the gods not only give her the necessary weapons to do so, but also wings to fly! Not only can you use cool moves in battle, but you can also explore the open game world in flight. Incidentally, if you’re worried that you’ll be littered with quest markers and towers when it comes to Ubisoft’s open world, rest assured that Immortals Fenys Rising doesn’t rely on this standard design technique. It actually invites you to explore. Is Immortals Fenyx Rising worth it? At release, the game received almost exclusively positive reviews. To date, the Metacritic score stands at 79 percent for the PC version and even better 81 percent on Xbox. The user ratings are also generally positive, with many comparing the gaming experience to a mixture of Legend of Zelda and other adventure games. Don’t be put off by the comic-like aesthetic because there’s much more to the game than just a Zelda knock-off. Unfortunately, it didn’t sell well due to poor marketing, but now you can get it for free! So there’s no reason not to at least take a look. To get Immortals Fenyx Rising for free, all you have to do is go to the relevant Ubisoft store page, select Free, then click “Play Now.” You can then add the game to your Ubisoft Connect account at no extra cost. Note: This is the PC version without any additional digital content. The game is only available for free until December 2nd at 5am! As long as you pick it up before then, you can keep it forever. Read...

We’re absolute suckers for retro vibes here at PCWorld. What can I say, we’re old and only getting older. So yeah, we love Silverstone’s FLP series, sue us. But these giant beige boxes are offering some flexibility that modern cases often lack while sticking with wide ATX compatibility. What’s not to love? The newest offering gets a little smaller, but still offers signature external bay options. The Silverstone FLP03 broadly sticks to the same vertical mid-tower format as the FLP02, but shrinks it down to MicroATX. That’s a little smaller than a standard tower setup, but not quite down to small form factor builds. (You can, of course, stick a Mini-ITX motherboard in there if you want.) According to the spec sheet shown at the Silverstone Expo 2025 event in Akihabara, and spotted by Twitter/X user Hito, this new case still has an impressive setup of three 5.25-inch external bays. Those are the ones mostly used for CD and DVD drives, and which have largely disappeared from modern PC cases. As Tom’s Hardware notes, the FLP03 case seems otherwise identical to the FLP02, sacrificing some internal 3.5-inch storage options and cooling fan space to shrink the case vertically. It’s “just” 456mm tall, compared to 494mm for the FLP02 (17.95 inches and 19.45 inches, respectively). The demo unit was showing off the older design’s physical lock, switch, and LED numeral display. According to Silverstone’s own specifications, the FLP03 is very slightly deeper than the FLP02 at 477mm, and only a bit thinner at 220mm. That smaller volume mean it can hold only one 180mm fan on the front (or 140/120, presumably) instead of two 120mm fans, and a smaller 120mm fan on the rear. The top can handle three 120mm or two 140mm fans, which would translate to a 360mm-long radiator setup, though that would block the top 5.25-inch bay. (Sorry for the mix of units here, PC cases are weird like that, especially for one so intentionally “retro.”) The FLP03 can handle a 412mm-long graphics card, which is actually a good bit longer than the FLP02’s 386mm maximum — I’m guessing there were some revisions made with some gamer feedback here. That would, theoretically, make the newer case even better for a high-powered build, with the unfortunate limitation of a MicroATX motherboard, often harder to find and more expensive than a standard ATX setup. The FLP02 still seems to be pending a wider launch, as I’m not seeing it available to buy anywhere, though a few specialty stores like MicroCenter are selling the original horizontal FLP01 case, which you can also get as a MainGear pre-built PC. Here’s hoping that all three get better availability sometime next year. Read...

If you’re still using the chunky power adapter that came with your laptop, I got a question for you: why carry that bulky thing around when you could get a compact Anker GaN charger instead? Today only, you can score this fast-charging 4-port charger for $59 with Amazon’s deal that drops it down from its original $100. Just don’t forget to click “Redeem” on the additional 10% off promo! View this Amazon deal This Anker charger comes with four ports: three USB-C and one USB-A. It delivers up to 140W of charging in total, which is more than fast enough for a modern laptop. The top two USB-C ports can both hit 140W, but only when they’re being used solo. When multiple ports are in use, the charging power is spread across them. Still, even when all four ports are used, the top USB-C can hit 65W. That’s darn fast! One nice little bonus with this Anker charger is that it has a cute digital display that shows you how much power is being delivered to each port in use. It also comes with a 5-foot 240W USB-C cable included, so you can take advantage of its uber-fast speeds right away and you can even use that cable with other ultra-fast adapters up to 240W. I must remind you that this awesome deal is extremely time-limited. As of this writing, you only have about 14 hours left before it’s gone! So don’t miss this chance to grab this Anker charger for $59. Anker`s fast-charging 4-port USB-C wall plug is 41% off todayBuy now at Amazon Read...

Black Friday is the best time to upgrade your home entertainment setup, just in time to enjoy all your favorite Christmas and winter movies in the months ahead. But I’m not talking about your TV! One of the most effective upgrades you can make is a proper soundbar—and thanks to this early Black Friday deal at Best Buy, you can snag Samsung’s HW-B650/ZA soundbar with a wireless subwoofer for just $199.99 (was $399.99). That’s a jaw-dropping 50% discount! View this Best Buy deal I have a different Samsung soundbar (sadly, not wireless like this one) and I still love it quite a bit even though it’s long in the tooth now. This model on sale steps it up with Dolby Atmos, so you get realistic 3D sound surrounding you for that immersive overall experience. And this is a 3.1 channel soundbar! Hate how you can barely hear dialogue these days? The built-in center channel makes voices crystal clear. All of that happens while the wireless subwoofer provides powerful bass for everything else. Just want to listen to music? It sounds great here. There’s also a nifty Bass Boost feature that, with one press of a button, deepens the low-end frequencies for extra oomph. On the opposite end, there’s a Night Mode that reduces bass levels so your neighbors won’t hate you for making their walls rumble. A 50% discount on a hot Samsung product is nothing to sneeze at. Get this soundbar for $199.99 while you still can because I doubt you’ll spot anything like this even when actual Black Friday comes around! Save 50% on this excellent 3.1 channel soundbar by SamsungBuy now via Best Buy Read...

Even as someone who viscerally hates “AI” getting stuffed into every aspect of every device and service I use, I can see places where it’s helpful. For example, a conversational interface for my grandmother might mean she needs to call me less often for iPad tech support. Microsoft took the same angle for a recent Copilot ad… which bizarrely showed Copilot offering the wrong instructions. Alright, let’s set up the dominoes before Copilot knocks them down. In a promotional X/tweet on November 12th, Microsoft showed YouTuber UrAvgConsumer pretending to be my not-so-tech-savvy grandmother, who says “Hey Copilot, I want to make the text on my screen bigger” while looking at Windows 11 Settings. “Can you show me where to click to do that?” he asks, activating the new Copilot Vision feature. Copilot correctly highlights the Display portion of the menu. When the user prompts Copilot with “Can you show me what to click next,” the system points him to the Scale setting. And when asked what percentage is needed, it says “Let’s start by clicking 150 percent, which is the recommended size”… which is baffling because 150 percent is already selected in the video as the default for that particular laptop. UrAvgConsumer apparently ignores the stated instructions and manually clicks on 200 percent instead. “Boom, and we’ve instantly got bigger icons, bigger text, easier for grandma to see.” In a Copilot promotional video from Microsoft, the user ignores Copilot’s instructions to click a setting that’s already applied.Microsoft This is bewildering on many levels. One, it’s pretty darn misleading since the audio of Copilot’s instructions doesn’t match the user’s on-screen actions. As Windows Central points out, Copilot told the user to essentially do nothing. The user—perhaps being more tech-savvy than Copilot’s limited system—correctly changes the setting to make the Windows UI bigger and easier to see. It’s probably something he’s done on his own dozens of times before. I’ll play devil’s advocate and point out that Copilot successfully guided the user to the relevant section of the Settings menu and the individual setting they needed. Even someone like my grandma could fiddle with that percentage option until she found something she liked. But to continue in even-handed treatment, UI scaling isn’t quite the same thing as “making the text on my screen bigger.” A more relevant setting—especially for an older user—would be the Accessibility section of the same menu, where “Text size” is the very first item in that menu, complete with a slider and preview window that’d be even easier for a novice to understand… and wouldn’t re-scale the entire user interface. Microsoft This fact has been pointed out by Twitter users so often that it’s been automatically highlighted in the “Readers added context” section of the page, along with a link to an official Microsoft support page that even my grandma could find by searching the web. This page is also the very first result on Bing if you search for “how to make text bigger in windows 11.” (I used Bing on the assumption that a novice user would be searching in Edge with no changes applied… which would still get better, faster, and more relevant results than using the LLM-powered Copilot.) Copilot failing in such a basic way isn’t all that surprising. The very nature of large language models means that results for identical queries can be inconsistent and even flat-out wrong. But the fact that Microsoft would choose to highlight such a glaring failure of its own system, apparently in the presence of a very experienced technology influencer who applied a different change entirely, is incredibly strange. Why wouldn’t Microsoft’s promotional team just re-record that video until they got the desired outcome? Assuming that UrAvgConsumer simply didn’t have the footage needed—possibly because this was a rapid-fire shoot for TikTok-style content—why not get the auto-generated Copilot audio to at least mention the 200 percent scaling option? Why would you choose to showcase something so glaringly wrong, specifically in an example of how that headline Copilot feature could help people? The most generous interpretation I can give of this situation is that it’s a result of marketers who aren’t that familiar with how Windows works for regular or advanced users. That would be embarrassing for anyone using a company’s own products, especially one with billions of users like Windows, but marketing/PR and tech support are not the same job. Fine. It’s also possible that we’re missing bits of back-and-forth conversation that were edited out to make the video shorter. Maybe Copilot did instruct UrAvgConsumer to click on 200 percent off-screen. Even so, it’s crazy to think that this made it through various levels of Microsoft bureaucracy to be put before eyeballs on Twitter and presumably other social platforms. Read...

Stop the presses! The Crucial X10 portable SSD is on sale right now for the best price we’ve ever seen. Right now, you can get a whopping 2TB of portable storage for just $135 on Amazon, which is an enormous drop from its original $210 MSRP. That’s a big deal for two reasons: this drive just released a few months ago in mid-2025, and its price has been steadily climbing due to recent hardware shortages. View this Amazon deal That said, there are many other reasons to get this Crucial X10 beyond its price. One of the biggest pros is how fast it is. When we reviewed the Crucial X10, we gave it a glowing 4.5-star rating and our Editors’ Choice award because we loved that it was “tiny” and “very fast” while being “good looking” and “relatively affordable.” It performs extremely well over USB 3.2×2, with our tests revealing speeds up to 2,100 MB/s. That’s stunning for a drive in its price range—and now it’s even cheaper. One thing to note is that the drive’s speed will depend on the USB connection you use. While it’s optimally fast via USB 3.2×2, you’ll get about half the marketed speed via USB4. Even so, that’s still plenty fast for day-to-day use and will likely blow your socks off anyway. This is a crazy early Black Friday deal, so jump on it while you can and get 2TB of superb portable storage at a fraction of the price. Get the Crucial X10 portable SSD for its best-ever priceBuy now at Amazon Note: It’s not just the 2TB model that’s on sale ahead of Black Friday. If you’d prefer other capacities, the 1TB is down to $85 (was $98), the 4TB is down to $230 (was $396), the 6TB is down to $290 (was $320), and the 8TB is down to $385 (was $440). Read...

Today’s the day to treat yourself to a comfortable pair of noise-canceling headphones. Why? Because the ultra-popular Bose QuietComfort wireless headphones are now just $169. That’s a whopping 51% discount that brings them down to their best-ever price, and Amazon says the deal is moving fast. Get ’em quick! Get Bose QuietComfort headphones for $169 One reason why these Bluetooth headphones are so famous is that the active noise cancellation on them is close to perfect. Since they’re so good at blocking out outside noises and sounds, the Bose QuietComfort cans are great to use in loud environments like offices, public transportation, airplanes, and while walking down the street. They’re also extremely nice if you have noisy apartment neighbors! You can toggle between Quiet and Aware modes, with the latter being useful when you don’t want to block out the world. As the name suggests, these headphones are designed for comfort, featuring plush over-ear cushions and a lightweight build that’s easy to wear for many hours at a time. And speaking of long hours, these headphones last up to 24 hours on a single charge, plus you can squeeze an extra 2.5 hours of playback with a quick 15-minute charge. The sound quality is good, too, with high-fidelity audio and controls for adjusting the bass, treble, and mid notes. The Bose QuietComfort is available in a slew of colors, including light and dark blue, pink, white, and green. They’re all on sale for $169, but this deal is going fast so hurry while you can! These popular Bose noise-canceling headphones are 51% offBuy now on Amazon Read...