I tripped over the term NPC, quite literally, on my way to an event the other night. Rushing to get there, I fell right in front of the venue. Embarrassed by how many people had just watched me eat ...

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 ...

Are you an “NPC”? Check with your teen! The acronym stands for “non-player character,” which in video game culture, is a figure not controlled by a player. Like a background character or one that is ...

Bloom, a non-player character with a face like a potato and a black beanie pulled tight around his ears, wants to know about my strategy and how I fare in combat. “I follow a map and I punch hard,” I ...

Nvidia debuted a new AI tool at Computex Taipei that targets the video game experience. The tool could transform the way players interact with non-player characters. This announcement arrives as the ...

Sony files patent for AI system to improve NPC interactions in video games. The AI system aims to create more realistic, context-aware responses from NPCs. Sony's focus on dynamic player experiences ...

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 ...

During writer and performer Brendan Bradley’s musical Non-Player Character (NPC), audience members are sucked into a metaphorical broken heart, attacked by a smoke monster, and plunged into an endless ...