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 ...

Sony is the latest company revealed to be testing the use of NPCs powered by generative AI in its games. After a prototype video showing an AI NPC in action was leaked online, players and game ...

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 ...

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Usually, when you go to see one of the big hardware powerhouses, the presentations are primarily focused around… well, you know - hardware. That’s been shifting over the years, however, as specialized ...

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) ...

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 ...

At this week’s Game Developers Conference, Ubisoft offered a possible glimpse of an AI-filled future for gamers. The company demoed a prototype at the show that used Nvidia’s Ace microservice to ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that Assassin’s Creed developer Ubisoft is interested in using generative AI in its games. The studio previously discussed a program dedicated to generating NPC barks, and has now ...

Following on from the announcement earlier this month that Ubisoft is developing a new AI-powered in game characters to enhance the gaming experience by introducing NEO NPCs (non-player characters).