It's well known at this point that AI programs have a tendency to "glaze" users, agreeing with a user's perspective regardless of its legitimacy, a phenomenon that has been linked to the recent rise ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Everstone Studios' free-to-play action-adventure-RPG Where Winds Meet is a game that gives over many of its NPC conversations to chatbots. But these ...

Meta is allowing developers to create LLM-powered NPCs for Horizon Worlds. (Meta) Developers building for Meta’s metaverse platform will soon be able to create AI-powered NPCs for Horizon Worlds. The ...

Rockstar Games is revolutionizing NPCs in GTA 6 with advanced AI, offering dynamic interactions and personalized behavior. NPCs will have memories, mood states, and routines, making the game world ...

Grand Theft Auto series boasts unforgettable NPCs like villain Officer Frank Tenpenny from GTA: San Andreas, and hacker Lester Crest from GTA V. Memorable characters include Roman Bellic's optimism in ...

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 it ...

Quin Callahan is a professional writer with over eight years of experience creating gaming content. In addition to games writing, he's also produced TTRPG content for a variety of tabletop publishers.

As the title suggests, Kill NPCs with Doom Music has you go around the city killing enemies in style. There are different types of NPC enemies, some unarmed and some armed. Naturally, to defeat them, ...

Jam & Tea Studios is the latest gaming startup implementing generative AI to transform the way players interact with non-playable characters (NPCs) in video games. Traditionally, video game NPCs are ...

A group of former Google DeepMind researchers has created an AI behavior engine that aims to transform traditional video games into a more dynamic experience by improving how non-playable characters ...

Chris Hinton is a dedicated games writer and database editor with an abiding three-decades-long fondness for video games. Having once worked in the corporate world as an Accountant and Financial ...