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 ...

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 ...

NVIDIA has unveiled technology called Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that would allow gamers to speak naturally to non-playable characters (NPCs) and receive appropriate responses. The company revealed the ...

Following on from the announcement earlier this month that Ubisoft is developing a new AI-powered in game characters to enhance the gaming experience by introducing NEO NPCs (non-player characters).

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, ...

Turmoil is an oil-drilling simulation game. The latest update adds multiplayer to Turmoil. Multiplayer mode features an entirely new and more compact map, where instead of just playing NPCs, players ...

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 ...