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) ...

Generally speaking, non-playable characters (NPCs) in video games are stuck repeating the same prerecorded lines over and over, shattering the illusion of an immersive world. But what if we injected ...

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 ...

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 ...

Saisrikar Surisetti's work focuses on making AI talk fast and smoothly. He improves the hidden systems that help games handle real-time conversations between players and AI characters.

A small R&D team at Ubisoft's Paris studio is working on using AI with NPC interactions in games. Ubisoft is working with Nvidia's Audio2Face application and Inworld's Large Language Model (LLM) to ...

Open-world games thrive on rich, well-written NPCs who breathe life into expansive worlds. Games like Watch Dogs Legion and ...

Illuvium said the partnership with AI agent protocol Virtuals will allow its in-game NPCs to adapt quests, dialogue and challenges based on the player’s actions. Update (Jan. 8 at 4 am UTC): This ...

With toolkits already available for game devs to meld AI into NPCs, Animoca Brands’ co-founder thinks more intelligent nonplayer characters will start to show up in 2024. Nonplayer characters in games ...

Players love open-world games that strive to do something different to appeal to the masses. From unique action gameplay to fun genre mashups that should've worked but end up paying major dividends, ...