Halo Infinite update turns off Personal AI chat and adds new map

It’s a big week, folks! There’s new fantasy TV on Prime Video, new animated fantasy on Netflix, new wacky animated fantasy on Max, and new ballet school fantasy on Hulu — OK, you get the picture. There’s a lot of fantasy coming this week! Even more if you count One Piece on Netflix (which I only sort of do, but not really).

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Albion Online’s next major content update, Wild Blood, will go live in October.  Shapeshifter Weapons, Tracking, and Awakened and Legendary weapons are coming.

The much-anticipated Alan Wake II is only a couple of months away at this point, feeling so soon all of a sudden despite a lengthy wait. Among the unique draws of Remedy’s latest horror game is the use of dual protagonists in the form of writer Alan Wake and FBI agent Saga Anderson. And while the last bit of gameplay we saw from Summer Game Fest focused on Saga, a larger focus was put on Alan this time around during the new trailer that debuted during Gamescom Opening Night Live, and as Saga’s adventures are in the real world, Alan finds himself dealing with the surreal realm of the Dark Place.

Inflexion Games has presented a brand new trailer at Gamescom for Nightingale to announce the Early Access date. The upcoming shared-world survival crafting title will enter early access on February 22, 2024, slightly later than originally estimated.

Adam Sandler won our hearts with the Netflix sports drama Hustle. However, his comedies haven’t always struck a chord with the critics well. Fortunately, his latest comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah is about to change that with a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Diablo Immortal’s 17th Season is coming with the new update, which also adds dozens of new Legendary items, a new Battle Pass, atweaked Conqueror PvP event, and the arrival of Training Grounds.  

This week we say goodbye to one of our own, a myth, a legend: Riverdale is finally ending its legendary run after seven seasons. Riverdale went out like it lived: as a show few could comprehend while always being true to itself to the very end.

Splatoon got what will almost definitely be its final game on the Nintendo Switch last year via Splatoon 3. The latest installment in the series got a couple of amiibo figures to mark the occasion, but Nintendo announced recently that there are more to come. The only trouble is even though it showed us all three of the new Splatoon amiibos it has in the offing, Nintendo didn't give us a way to buy them. Like popping them in the window of a store that doesn't have an opening time.

miHoYo has announced that Honkai: Star Rail’s next big update, Version 1.3, “Celestial Eyes Above Mortal Ruins,” will release on August 30th for PC, iOS and Android. It adds Imbibitor Lunae, a five-star Imaginary character following the Path of the Destruction, followed by Fu Xuan, the Master Diviner of the Xianzhou and a five-star Quantum character on the Path of the Preservation.

AI Roundup: In today's world of artificial intelligence (AI), Baidu announced the expansion of its AI chatbot called ERNIE Bot, as it now supports 5 more plugins. On the other hand, the Associated Press issued guidelines for the use of AI in newsrooms. New research has also shed light on a deep-learning AI model that can be used to detect congenital heart defects. All this, and more in our today's AI roundup.

Ahead of the big Modern Warfare 3 reveal, Activision's confirmed that Zombies will return and it's apparently joined by a new type of campaign mission.