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 ...

That same philosophy underpins Matt Mercer of Critical Role ’s approach to NPC entrances, though he frames it specifically as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...