When the party is meeting a wide range of NPCs, focus on the one they showed the most interest in and work on expanding that NPC's role in the game. A simple shopkeeper or bartender might become the ...

A Spring Breakout daily quest tasks players with giving a command to a hired specialist. There are several hireable characters across the map who aren’t specialists, so check our specialist guide to ...

Developers building for Meta's metaverse platform will soon be able to create AI-powered NPCs for Horizon Worlds.

AI-powered NPCs that don’t need a script could make games—and other worlds—deeply immersive. First, a confession. I only got into playing video games a little over a year ago (I know, I know). A ...

A group of former Google DeepMind researchers has created an AI behavior engine that aims to transform traditional video games into a more dynamic experience by improving how non-playable characters ...

Bethesda Game Studios announced one lucky winner has the chance to create their own NPC in The Elder Scrolls VI in a silent charity auction in order to raise money for Make-A-Wish Mid-Atlantic. "One ...

Geordi Rose and Suzanne Gildert at Sanctuary AI are one of the world leading companies working on humanoid robotics and AGI (artificial general intelligence). They have an interesting thought ...

In late 2018, just weeks before the U.S. midterm election, a term any gamer would recognize began to bubble up into political conversation. NPC (short for non-player character) became the alt-right ...

Japanese TikTok creator Natuecoco is widely credited with starting the viral NPC streaming trend. She started NPC livestreams in 2021, drawing inspiration from cosplay and art. Natuecoco said this ...

Where do I find the Jack Sparrow NPC location in Fortnite? You can find the Jack Sparrow NPC’s location by heading to the place marked on the map in the screenshot I shared above. This location is way ...