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 ...

Tom Paton, whose Where the Robots Grow was one of the first AI animated feature films, debuted a new AI generated series today, Non-Player Combat. His small team in the UK has been building AiMation ...

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 ...

As is expected from Dragon Age, there are romance options galore in Dragon Age: The Veilguard — and the fan discussion on which non-player character to romance began months before the game even came ...

Attention nerds: You need to see the new "Free Guy" trailer. 20th Century Fox's upcoming action-comedy stars Ryan Reynolds as an NPC (which stands for non-player character) who realizes he's actually ...

For those who may not know, an NPC is a non-player character like Sam, Raphael, or one of many other characters. While you may not be able to play as them, you certainly can feed some of them! By ...