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Happy Thursday! It's August 27, 2026, and this is The Morning Shift — your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. This is where you'll find the most important stories that are shaping the way Americans drive and get around.

Fable is set to release on February 23, 2027, and developer Playground Games is feeling pretty confident that it will be ready for that date.

Speaking to IGN at gamescom, the RPG’s director, Ralph Fulton, told us that he feels “great about it.”

T here’s a ghost following Cooper Hoffman. Luckily for me, he brings it up first. 

We’re only around 20 minutes into breakfast at the West Village staple Morandi the first time Hoffman mentions his late father, the beloved actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. The restaurant has long been one of his family’s favorite haunts, and the booth three spots over is where Hoffman recently celebrated his younger sister’s high school graduation and acceptance to either Michigan State or the University of Michigan (Hoffman, laughing and shamefaced, keeps forgetting which). When the conversation turns to the New York Knicks’ unbelievable playoff run, a decades-in-the-making miracle that Hoffman had to watch “drunk in bed” while in London attending a wedding, he invokes the memory of a man he lost just a month before his 11th birthday. 

Picking the best starting class in Star Wars Zero Company is a little challenging when you haven't played any of the game yet. But don't worry: you can change your class specialization once you hit Cycle 3, which is very early on. After that point, you can also change the specialization and talents for hired operators too.

Microsoft is set to release a limited number of Xbox Series X - X25 Special Edition consoles in honor of the 25th anniversary of the original Xbox. This eye-catching translucent green console costs $899.99 and releases on November 13. It comes with a controller in the same retro OG Xbox style, as well as a digital copy of Halo: Campaign Evolved. Preorders have started rolling out, but they're selling out very quickly.

Where a student attends college can shape their experience as much as academics, athletics, and campus life do.

Beyond being the backdrop for college memories, a school's setting often determines what students do outside class and the opportunities and experiences they have access to as they pursue their degrees.

Finally, a large ultrawide monitor with tons of vertical screen space.

Devindra Hardawar for Engadget

RATING : 9.4 / 10

If I had to pick one monitor to use for the next ten years, it would be Alienware's new 39-inch 5K ultrawide display. Imagine taking a standard 32-inch widescreen monitor, stretching the sides out a bit, and you've got the basic idea of what this screen holds. It features the latest and brightest OLED display technology available, a 5K resolution that's incredibly sharp and an expansive screen that fills your entire field of view. It also has the ability to jump between 5K 165Hz and 1080p+ 330Hz modes at the touch of a button, which can be useful for shooters. Put it all together, and you've got a true sweet spot of ultrawide features.

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: Aug 27, 2026 1:00pm UTC

One of the reasons I dropped out of the comic book reviewing game for so long is that I became frankly exhausted by the perpetual cycle of crossover events dominating the Big Two publishers. The Batman franchise has certainly been no stranger to those crossovers in recent years - Joker War, Knight Terrors, Gotham War - with the third storyline in particular being a frustrating mess I'd just as soon delete from my memory banks. I can't say I particularly relished the prospect of the Bat-line being overtaken by another two-month crossover, but Bad Seeds ultimately makes a decent case for itself in its opening chapter.