NPCs or non-playable characters include secondary characters you meet in the game, like the innkeeper who serves you a beer, or the guy you buy... Streamers are role-playing as NPCs There is a trend ...

The new Fable game will have next-gen NPCs called the 'living population' that will dynamically react to your choices with ...

In Skyrim, NPCs react to your choices, remembering crimes, friendships, and rivalries, creating a dynamic world shaped by your acti ...

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Players love open-world games that strive to do something different to ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a Feature Writer from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade and finds dissecting Marvel trailers for hours standard practice and still finds time to review, ...

Kylan Gibbs is the Chief Product Officer and co-founder of Inworld AI. Inworld creates smart AI characters for gaming and other use cases. With recent advancements in AI set to transform a number of ...

The concept of a nonplayable character dates back to the early days of video games. By definition, it is a character — a merchant, mushroom, pedestrian, etc. — designed to exist in the background. You ...

New Half-Life 3 leaks point to major upgrades in NPC behaviour and physics, suggesting Valve's most ambitious and technically ...

There is a trend on social media of people role-playing so-called non-playable characters from video games. Endless Thread's Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson take a look at the phenomenon. Ben ...