NPCs or non-playable characters include secondary characters you meet in the game, like the innkeeper who serves you a beer, or the guy you buy... Streamers are role-playing as NPCs There is a trend ...

The new Fable game will have next-gen NPCs called the 'living population' that will dynamically react to your choices with ...

Mark has been thinking and writing about games since a Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Link's Awakening was first placed into his tender, seven-year-old hands. Since then, he snagged a creative writing ...

The concept of a nonplayable character dates back to the early days of video games. By definition, it is a character — a merchant, mushroom, pedestrian, etc. — designed to exist in the background. You ...

From Matt Mercer to Deborah Ann Woll, expert DMs share how to introduce NPCs in D&D and make first impressions that stick.

NVIDIA has unveiled technology called Avatar Cloud Engine (ACE) that would allow gamers to speak naturally to non-playable characters (NPCs) and receive appropriate responses. The company revealed the ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 ...

There is a trend on social media of people role-playing so-called non-playable characters from video games. Endless Thread's Ben Brock Johnson and Amory Sivertson take a look at the phenomenon. Ben ...