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) ...

A new GTA 5 mod finally puts players on trial for their crimes, dragging them into the courtroom for their reckless driving.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

When you read “artificial intelligence,” you might think of new innovations such as Chat GPT, but AI has been used in video games since the 1950s. From Pacman’s trademark ghosts to autonomous decision ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...