This Alienware Aurora R16 configuration includes an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F processor, GeForce RTX 5070 Ti 16GB GPU, 16GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB SSD. Note that this system features an air-cooled heatsink as opposed to a liquid cooling solution. It's probably fine, but in the future you might want to consider upgrading to beefier air cooling (like the Thermalright Peerless Assassin) or a 240mm AIO liquid cooler (like the Arctic Freezer III). Both are compatible, albeit a bit tricky according to user reports. A 1000W power supply does give you plenty of headroom.

The RTX 5070 Ti GPU Is Our Best Reviewed Nvidia Blackwell GPU

The best "value" GPU for 4K gaming

Of all the Blackwell cards released thus far, the RTX 5070 Ti offers the best value for high-fps 4K gaming. It performs neck-and-neck with the RTX 4080 Super but with the added bonus of newer GDDR7 VRAM and multi-frame generation. If you plan on using this card for AI, the RTX 5070 Ti is a better value than the RTX 5080 since both have same amount of RAM (16GB). Compared to AMD, the RTX 5070 Ti is roughly comparable in raw performance to the AMD RX 9070 XT, but the 5070 Ti has better upscaling technology (especially with DLSS 4.5) and ray tracing performance. Check out our RTX 5070 Ti review by Jacqueline Thomas for our hands-on impressions.

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Save $200 on a motherboard and top-tier RAM when you purchase them together. For just $259.99, you’ll get an ASUS ROG STRIX B650E-I mobo for an AMD build, along with 16GB (2 x 8GB) of DDR5 6000 RGB memory from Teamforce. If you opted to buy these items separately, it would set you back $460, so this is a nice savings. Anyone building a new rig or looking to upgrade an existing setup should take advantage of this deal while it’s still available.

TMNT fans will want to grab this The Last Ronin Box Set, as it has dropped to the lowest price ever. It’s a stunningly illustrated but dark graphic novel collection that follows Michelangelo and a new generation of turtles in dystopian NYC. For just $56.71, you’ll get the three-book collection featuring the original The Last Ronin series, the Lost Years prequel, and Last Ronin II: Re-Evolution, which is set a decade later than the original.

The Razer Orochi V2 Wireless Gaming Mouse is over half off on Amazon and Best Buy. This excellent gaming mouse is lightweight, compact, and easy to control. With reliable mechanical switches and a responsive 18K DPI optical sensor, every move you make with this mouse will be consistently tracked and executed. Given it’s wireless, there’s the option to connect via Bluetooth to improve battery life, but the included low-latency Razer HyperSpeed Wireless dongle is what you’ll want during competition. This mouse has a lot going for it, especially considering it’s priced at just $32.99.

The Xbox Core Controller is our favorite Xbox Series X|S controller for a reason. It’s comfortable in hand, offers a familiar design, and pairs seamlessly with the console, as well as PC and phone. All the controls are responsive, reliable, and ready to keep up with all your gameplay. And if you’re not picky about color, the stunning Deep Pink colorway of the controller is only $49.49. It's a nice deal for the controller, which is only occasionally discounted.

While the Switch 2 has significantly more storage than the original console, users will find that the 256GB capacity fills quickly. The only way to upgrade storage on the Switch 2 is with a microSD Express card, and you can score an awesome deal on a 512GB Samsung P9 microSD Express card. It’s only $79.99 for this speedy option capable of reaching 800MB/s, while offering ample space to store a healthy gaming library. If you’re after one of the best microSD Express cards for Switch 2, Samsung’s P9 is what you want.

Looking to add a new Steelbook to your physical media collection? National Lampoon’s Animal House (Limited Edition 4K Ultra HD Steelbook + Blu-ray) is only $16.99. This brilliant college comedy classic, starring John Belushi and directed by John Landis, has received the 4K treatment. Besides a 4K UHD disc, you’ll also receive a Blu-ray disc and a bunch of bonus features, packaged in a Steelbook featuring some fun artwork.

If you’ve been waiting to buy the Super Deluxe Edition of Borderlands 4 for PS5, now’s the time to jump. It’s only $90 on Amazon, which is one of the lowest prices it’s ever gone, beating Black Friday savings.

With the Super Deluxe version, you’ll get the base Borderlands 4 game along with a boatload of extras, including Firehawk's Fury Weapons Skin, the Ornate Order Pack, the Bounty Pack Bundle, and the Vault Hunter Pack. The latter two packs bring more DLC content and playable characters, and it’s the main reason you’ll want the Super Deluxe edition. As for the game itself, in our review of Borderlands 4, Travis Northup had this to say about the game: “Borderlands 4 gives the series the massive kick in the pants it has needed, with a fantastic open world and greatly improved combat.”

Switch up your usual game night rotation with a fun cooperative board game. TESSERACT by Smirk & Dagger is a bit more niche one-to-four-player dice-manipulation game that uses a 64-die cube. In it, you must work together (or solo) to fill a containment matrix without causing too many breaches or emptying the cube. With 4.9 stars on Amazon, those who’ve played seem to love it, and right now you can grab it for just $37.20. That’s 32% off the list price of this unique strategy puzzle game.

Add some color to your home lighting with Govee’s 1,200-Lumen RGBWW A19 Wi-Fi Smart LED Light Bulbs. This 4-pack of incredibly bright bulbs features RGBWW LEDs, which means in addition to offering stunning color changes, you also get warm white LEDs for a similar look to incandescent bulbs. Given these are smart lights, the Govee app makes for easy adjustments via Wi-Fi or Bluetooth.

Best of all, it’s $22 off the price tag right now, making the 4-pack of Govee’s 1,200-Lumen RGBWW A19 Wi-Fi Smart LED Light Bulbs just $43 at Best Buy. You won’t find them that cheap anywhere else. In fact, Amazon has a 2-pack listed for $38, so this is a nice deal.

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Apple TV+ offers a 7-day free trial for all new subscribers. Simply head over to the Apple TV+ homepage or app and you'll be greeted with a button that says "Accept Free Trial." New iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, and Mac computers also come bundled with a 3-month Apple TV+ trial, which requires manual activation through the Apple TV app on the device. In both cases, once your trial ends, your subscription will automatically renew at the standard monthly rate of $12.99/month.

What Is Apple TV+? Everything You Need to Know

Apple TV+ is an award-winning streaming service featuring Apple Originals — exclusive series, movies, documentaries, and more, with new content added every month. While it was a bit barebones when it launched in 2019, Apple TV+ has grown its library to over 180 series, with breakout hits like Ted Lasso, Severance, and Silo, as well as over 80 original films, including Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon. Apple TV+ was also the first streaming service to receive an Academy Award for its original film CODA, which released in 2022.

While Apple TV+ may not boast a massive library like Netflix, it's long maintained a "quality over quantity" approach when it comes to its original programming with something that will surely appeal to just about anyone, regardless of age.

How Much Is Apple TV+?

Apple TV+ has only one subscription plan, which now costs $12.99/month. Since there are no ads by default, there are no ad-supported or limited tiers to worry about.

This monthly subscription cost was previously $9.99/month, and increased by $3 on August 21, 2025.

Apple One Subscriptions

Aside from standalone subscriptions, Apple TV+ is included in a bundled service called Apple One. The lowest-tier Apple One plan gives you access to four subscriptions: Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and a 50GB iCloud+ plan, all for $19.95/month. The Premier Apple One plan costs $37.95/month, adding Apple News+, Apple Fitness+, and an upgrade to 2TB of iCloud+ storage.

Apple TV+ Student Deals

If you're a current college or university student, you can sign up for a Apple Music plan that includes Apple TV+ at a discounted rate of $5.99/month. Apple Music usually costs $10.99/month on its own, so this is quite the deal.

MLS Season Pass

Treated as a separate subscription, Apple TV also hosts Major League Soccer streams. The MLS Season Pass starts at $14.99/month, and Apple TV+ subscribers get a $2 discount.

How to Watch Apple TV+ - Available Platforms

Apple TV+ is available to stream on all of your Apple devices including iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV set-top boxes. Additionally, you can stream Apple TV+ on a variety of internet-connected smart TVs, Roku devices, Amazon Fire TV devices, Google TV devices, as well as PlayStation and Xbox consoles. You can also AirPlay from an Apple device to any compatible AirPlay device that doesn't feature the native Apple TV+ app.

Our Top Picks of What to Watch on Apple TV+

For more streaming platform guides, check out 2026 Hulu Subscriptions, Netflix Plans, ESPN+ Plans, and Disney+ Plans.

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The Disney Plus and Hulu Bundle

The cost of a basic Disney Plus membership is currently $11.99 per month, which allows access to content with ads. For just $1 more, you can get the Disney+ bundle that gives you access to Hulu content as well.

This is likely the best option if you're looking to get the most bang for you buck as a 'new subscriber'. You'll get access to new Marvel shows, Hulu Originals, Star Wars shows and more for $12.99 a month while retaining your Disney Plus membership. If you'd like to see more bundle options, make sure to check out our roundup of the best Disney Plus deals and bundles.

Apple TV+

If you're looking to cut down your streaming budget significantly, one of the cheapest services currently available is Apple TV+. You can get a free 7-day trial to test it out and then pay only $12.99 a month. There is also an option to get 3 months of the service for free when you purchase an Apple device. These are some of the best free trials on a streaming service you'll find.

Although Apple TV+ doesn't offer a massive library of content like Netflix or Disney Plus, it has some of the best original shows and movies of the year. If you already have an Apple TV+ subscription and want to reduce your costs further, you can also take a look at our guide to cancelling Apple TV.

Netflix

Netflix is the biggest streaming platform out there with more original content than anybody could want. You can get a basic subscription for $7.99 a month or upgrade to Standard ($17.99) or Premium ($24.99) to get access to more features. Similar to Disney Plus, the main draw of this streaming subscription is the incredible backlog of good Netflix movies and original shows.

If you already have a Netflix subscription and are trying to cut the cost of your streaming bill, however, you can take a look at our guide to cancelling Netflix for help with that.

Amazon Prime Video

If you already have an Amazon Prime subscription, that means access to Prime Video is already available to you. The added benefits of Amazon Prime Video being already wrapped up into your Amazon membership is that you also get the benefit of renting On Demand movies online.

If you're looing to cancel even more services to make room in your budget, however, you can take a look at our guide to cancelling Amazon Prime as well.

What Netflix Alternatives Have Free Trials?

Luckily, if you are looking for a free streaming service trial, there are still multiple competitors that offer quality content and a chance to sample their streaming library for free. Check out these various alternatives below:

For a full list of descriptions and pricing, check out our article on the best Netflix alternatives with free trials.

This laptop is extremely well equipped for its price. Full specs include a gorgoues 16" 2560x1600 240Hz OLED display, Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU, GeForce RTX 5080 GPU (maximum TGP), 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 2TB SSD. The Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX processor has 24 cores and a max turbo frequency of 5.4GHz. This is one of the most powerful Intel mobile CPUs currently available and is the ideal complement to the RTX 5080 mobile GPU.

The GeForce RTX 5080 mobile GPU is better than the RTX 4090 mobile

The OMEN MAX offers a robust cooling design that allows it to accomodate a more powerful GPU like the RTX 5080 without throttling it. That's important if you want to be able to play games comfortably on the display's enhanced 2560x1600 resolution. The RTX 5080 mobile GPU is roughly 15%-20% more powerful than the RTX 4080 mobile GPU that it replaces. In fact, it's slightly more powerful than the RTX 4090, which was the previous generation's flagship card. You should be able to run any game out there at consistent 60+ fps framerates.

The OMEN MAX is HP's best 16" gaming laptop

The OMEN MAX 16 is an upgrade to the OMEN both in terms of build quality and cooling potential. The OMEN MAX 16 is almost entirely constructed of aluminum, including both the top lid and chassis. The exception is the palm rest, which is still plastic so that it doesn't get too toasty for your hands. The OMEN MAX 16 also features a new Tempest Cooling Pro design that combines vapor chamber cooling, redesigned fan configuration, and an improved thermal interface material to maximize heat transfer. Not only does this keep the laptop cooler during gaming marathons, it also allows for the current-generation graphics cards to perform optimally without throttling.

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Fallout: Power Play puts two to four players in command of four possible factions, each with their own unique decks and special ability. These are the Brotherhood of Steel (good at completing missions to earn influence and hunkering down in a location), Super Mutants (lots of big and powerful unit cards to deploy at locations), the Enclave (excellent at disrupting other players' turns), and Raiders (thieves, every last one of them).

On their turn, players deploy agents to locations, complete quests to earn rewards, and use their faction-specific ability, all in a bid to earn the most influence in the different places, netting you victory points. Whichever player has their agent holding a location at the end of the turn gains influence over the spot, with the top play considered to be “dominating” and earning a victory point. The first player to reach 10 points triggers the end game and scoring, with whoever has the most points winning at the end of that round.

Things get shaken up a bit thanks to the random Wasteland Encounter cards you draw at the start of each round, and unique Power Play cards that each player has in their deck. These events can range from spawning ghouls that attack everyone’s agents to even detonating an Atom Bomb Baby and destroying everything at the location(s) where players have the most influence. That one is a particularly fun card to see safely from the sidelines, as all of your friends’ units are blasted out of existence all at once in the region they were fighting so fiercely over.

If the encounter cards are the right hand of chaos in Power Play, then the titular Power Play cards in your deck are the left hand of chaos. These cards have the potential to be played not only on your turn, but also in response to other players’ actions. Think an Instant spell in Magic: The Gathering. This resulted in some tense back-and-forth, play-and-counterplay moments with my friends, and I often found myself holding my breath whenever I would put down one of my more powerful cards in hopes they wouldn’t get countered or worse.

While at first glace, Power Play may appear to be more of a simple “bigger number better” war game, the more I played, the more nuance and strategy I found in it. Each location only has spots for four agents, and in games with fewer players, this allows for you to allocate multiple agent resources to a location. But regardless of how much you are overpowering the other players in a spot, you will still only gain a single victory point at the end of the round. On the flip side, every round where you don’t have an agent at a location will result in your losing an influence at that location (to a minimum of 1), so it pays to spread out your forces.

This management almost makes Power Play into more of a worker placement game, and I often found myself opting to have one stronghold as my main “VP generator” and then spreading out and setting up at the other locations to pull off big influence gain turns by completing quest cards that would net me a boost in influence for a spot. Whenever I managed to pull off these well-laid plans, it tickled that good spot in my brain and never got old.

Resurrectionist Games, Power Play’s designer, has put together a card game with solid bones, and its focus on capturing and holding locations reminds me of the hot new TCG Riftbound. That said, issues surrounding the delivery and presentation of the game blemish and knock Power Play down some notches. The most disappointing of which is that the whole product feels less like a Fallout card game and more like something with the beloved property slapped on the side of it.

Despite the four factions and other nods to the Fallout universe, I never felt as though Power Play did much with the property. Instead of decks featuring notable characters from the games that fans would recognize, the designers opted for bland and generic fill-ins instead. Taking the Brotherhood of Steel deck, for instance, a group whose Power Armor is arguably just as synonymous with the series as the signature blue-and-yellow vault suits, your forces are composed of no-name cards like “Knight” or “Elder.” Instead of a generic Elder, why not have the lead agent be a character like Arthur Maxson or Sarah Lyons?

The home base locations of each of the factions feel rather soulless and are identical to one another from a gameplay standpoint. While “activate a location” is an option you can take on your turn, there are only two locations that have something to activate, with the others being the starting strongholds of each faction. They are “War Camp” or “Raider Fortress” instead of something memorable from the series, like Nuka-World or even a Vault. I would have appreciated these spots to be two-sided, with a generic, ability-less side and the other having an action associated with it and pulled from somewhere players would recognize if you were in the mood for a more advanced game mode. Alas, no such luck.

This more uninspired approach extends into the art and even the card descriptions. Keeping on the Brotherhood train, the Initiate and Field Scribe agent cards feature nearly identical character faces, and cards like their “Knight” read as “Each time Knight kills an Enemy…” which feels generic. Do these things impact how the game plays? No. But if you're going to adapt a well-known property, you want it to feel meaningful, and considering the attention to detail I’ve come to expect from Modiphius, especially with Fallout, thanks to the Fallout TTRPG they also publish, Power Play just doesn’t get there.

My other main gripe with Power Play has to do with some of the quality control and decisions involved with how the game is packaged. Now, I’m all for a game being nice and compact; heck, one of the most prestigious awards I can give (in my mind anyway) is the Glovebox Award, given to games that are small and fun enough that I always want them with me wherever I go (Flip 7 is an example). It’s rare that I’ve found a game that feels too small – but Power Play does. Inside its box are spots for two decks of cards, with a small gap in between. Now, these two spots aren’t quite deep enough to contain all of the standard-sized cards included, causing some annoying shifting, and unfortunately, you can just forget sleeving your cards.

Fallout: Power Play also uses tokens to mark each faction’s influence in the regions and other little reminders. Unfortunately, these tokens are incredibly tiny. And while the faction tokens are at least color-coded, some of the reminder tokens, all of which are about 3/4 the size of a dime and contain text, are barely legible from anything more than maybe six inches from your face, let alone from across a table. Power Play may also be the first board game I have that uses tokens but doesn’t come with a small bag to keep them in. And to make matters more annoying, they easily slip into the small gap between the two decks. Thankfully, my cardboard hobby has granted me extra baggies that I was able to put them in, but beforehand, more than a couple of times, I spent more time than I care to admit trying to get some of these damn cardboard pieces out of the box.

Fallout: Power Play is a great example of how a bunch of little missed opportunities and annoyances can add up, and it’s a shame. This is one of those products that I can see potential and promise if Resurrectionist Games takes a bit more care into any future properties they adapt. The underlying game is fun, and I can imagine a day down the road where Power Play becomes the system, and you can buy additional sets, akin to, say, Smash Up!, and you can have the Brotherhood of Steel facing off against the forces of the Borg from Star Trek, or the demons of Hell from Doom pushing back Super Mutants. That's a game I would love to play, and if they put a bit more care into those sets, you can count me in day one. It may even make it into the glovebox.

Yes, Crunchyroll does offer a free streaming service trial. When you are ready to sign up for a plan, you can head over to the Crunchyroll Premium page and score a free seven-day trial on any of the three premium subscription options. This includes the Fan, Mega Fan, and Ultimate Fan tiers. Once your one week free trial ends, your subscription will automatically begin for the monthly price of your plan.

What Is Crunchyroll? The Anime Streaming Service, Explained

Crunchyroll is the biggest name in anime streaming, originally launching in 2006. You can find some of the most popular anime available like Attack on Titan, Dragon Ball, My Hero Academia, and more. The streaming platform was acquired by Sony through Funimation in 2020 for $1.2B, with Sony opting to sunset the Funimation streaming service as a result and folding it into Crunchyroll.

The service is available for free with ads on select series and episodes, but Crunchyroll has slowly rolled back the number of anime you can watch without a Premium subscription. Just recently, almost all episodes of One Piece were made exclusive to Premium members only. Still, some months have a decent selection of free options.

How Much Does Crunchyroll Cost?

Each Crunchyroll Premium tier is priced $4 apart. The Fan tier is set at $7.99/month, the Mega Fan tier is $11.99/month, and the Ultimate Fan tier is set at $15.99/month. The last time Crunchyroll increased prices was in May 2024, with only the Mega Fan and Ultimate Fan tiers affected.

While Disney+ does not directly offer a free trial of their services, Verizon offers customers who have Unlimited Plus or Unlimited Ultimate service a free Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+ bundle as a myPlan perk for free for six months. After six months, subscribers will have to pay $10 monthly to maintain service. This is a great way for viewers who already have access to Verizon services to make the most of it, providing multiple streaming bundle options much like Hulu does.

Another potential option to get around the lack of a free Disney+ trial is to instead get a free trial of Hulu + Live TV, which includes Disney+ access. This is only a short three-day free trial, but it works in a pinch if you want to briefly test the service over a weekend.

Disney+ Bundles

While it definitely doesn't eliminate subscription costs, one of the more budget-friendly ways to manage your subscriptions is by checking out bundles of your preferred services. The Disney+ bundle with HB Max and Hulu starts at $19.99/month, while the newest Disney+ bundle with Hulu and ESPN Unlimited starts at $35.99. If you're already paying for Hulu or Max, these bundles are likely your "cheapest" options for picking up a Disney+ subscription.

What Disney+ Alternatives Have Free Trials?

Though it may seem that free streaming trials are going out of style these days, there are still a handful of streaming options that you can try out for a period of time. Check out our list below for some of the best Disney+ alternatives.