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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Dragon's Dogma 2 is right around the corner, and in our conversations with creator Hideaki Itsuno, we also learned about a number of new features of the NPC systems in Dragon's Dogma 2, including ...

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.

This adorable new Stardew Valley expansion adds a new village, more characters and even more romance to the farming game.

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 ...

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.