I tripped over the term NPC, quite literally, on my way to an event the other night. Rushing to get there, I fell right in front of the venue. Embarrassed by how many people had just watched me eat ...

It is increasingly common in online communities to jokingly or insultingly refer to others as automated characters, like those in video games. This is a flawed and overly simplistic representation of ...

A boundary pushing fusion of immersive, improvised theatre and video games where no two performances are the same; this virtual reality musical invites the audience to influence the narrative through ...

Bloom, a non-player character with a face like a potato and a black beanie pulled tight around his ears, wants to know about my strategy and how I fare in combat. “I follow a map and I punch hard,” I ...

Nvidia debuted a new AI tool at Computex Taipei that targets the video game experience. The tool could transform the way players interact with non-player characters. This announcement arrives as the ...

NetEase’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game Justice Mobile announced Thursday that the DeepSeek-powered non-player character (NPC) Shen Qiusuo will debut in the game’s martial arts world ...