Video game companies like Ubisoft are embracing genAI to speed up development and pioneer new gameplay while navigating high costs and best practices.

Video games offer a living world experience. Open-world games provide freedom and immersion for players. Realistic NPCs enhance gameplay. Games like Fear, Majora's Mask, and Gothic have NPCs that ...

Microsoft's Xbox division has partnered with Inworld AI, a Silicon Valley-based company, to collaborate on AI NPCs.

Today, a web3 social simulation game, raised $5M in seed funding to further develop its gen AI-powered NPCs and no-code creator tools.

So, how can game studios prepare for more advanced video game NPCs in the future? We'll walk you through the steps you should take now to be ready for advanced AI NPCs.

Believable NPCs enhance immersion in open-world games, making the game world feel more realistic and enjoyable. Rockstar Games has excelled at developing open-world games with realistic NPC ...

Earlier this year, TikTok livestreamers began mimicking lifeless "nonplayable characters," or NPCs, by repeating motions and phrases like in a video game. Then, people started paying them to keep ...

Skyrim's inept NPCs are smart now, and they'll insult you for cheesing This new Skyrim mod finally makes NPCs smarter, meaning your age-old stealth archer cheese strategy needs a bit of a rethink ...