But recently, the AI in video games has gotten much better. Now, instead of just trying to survive with bad pathing, NPCs are ...

Convai has teamed up with Unity to expand its AI-based non-player characters (NPCs) for games. Convai is showing off various demos of games with AI NPCs at this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) ...

Generally speaking, non-playable characters (NPCs) in video games are stuck repeating the same prerecorded lines over and over, shattering the illusion of an immersive world. But what if we injected ...

No, these aren't real monsters after you — no matter how real they appear to be. In these horror games, the A.I. is so smart ...

LOS ANGELES – For decades, video games have relied on scripted, stilted interactions with non-player characters to help shepherd gamers in their journeys. But as artificial intelligence technology ...

Today, a web3 social simulation game, has raised a $5 million seed funding round to further develop its generative AI-powered intelligent NPCs and no-code creator tools. Sfermion and Big Brain led the ...

A small R&D team at Ubisoft's Paris studio is working on using AI with NPC interactions in games. Ubisoft is working with Nvidia's Audio2Face application and Inworld's Large Language Model (LLM) to ...

The Elder Scrolls Skyrim NPCs are only as complex as they are thanks to a literal "napkin drawing" that Todd Howard doodled, reveals ex-Bethesda dev: "It's actually a napkin story" Baldur's Gate ...

Some NPCs are unforgiving due to heinous player actions, driving them to hold lifelong grudges. Players face severe consequences in games like Animal Crossing or Baldur's Gate 3 for betraying and ...

Open-world games thrive on rich, well-written NPCs who breathe life into expansive worlds. Games like Watch Dogs Legion and Red Dead Redemption 2 prove the importance of NPCs in immersive storytelling ...