Thanks to their design and dialogue, these NPCs add something special and utterly unsettling into their respective open-world ...

A game-changing new Stardew Valley mod lets you recruit your town's NPCs as useful companions who help you fight, chop, and ...

In these games, the world breathes and lives independently. NPCs aren't just quest dispensers but individuals in their own right, with their own routines and narratives that unfold whether you ...

If you really want to have fun in a game, you need to be fully immersed in its world. Both the macro and micro details in ...

As revealed in a recent job listing, Naughty Dog may be using AI to power NPC dialogue in Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet.

The 1.0 update for SCUM is finally out and the game has made a lot of progress in the last 7 years. But the biggest talking ...

Citizens allows you to create lifelike NPCs in Minecraft servers. It features a highly customizable framework that lets users create unique NPCs, such as humans, monsters, pets, and more.

Fortnite Chapter 6 Season 3: Super has introduced a fresh set of NPCs across the island, offering key weapons, consumables and utility items that can alter the outcome of fights. The island has ...

Traditionally, NPCs are guided by decision trees and pre-written scripts, which often limit the number of outcomes a player can experience. For example, most NPCs in games respond to player ...

A new tool in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) will allow developers to create their own generative AI-powered NPCs. Their voice types, delivery styles and personality traits are all ...

The rise of AI NPCs has felt like a looming threat for years, as if developers couldn't wait to dump human writers and offload NPC conversations to generative AI models. At CES 2025, NVIDIA made ...

Nvidia's PUBG Ally is a bad friend and worse co-op buddy, but I prefer it to AI which doesn't know the difference between orange and purple.