This resource adds dynamic NPC interactions themed around the Lunar New Year. NPCs can remember players, hold grudges, give red envelope rewards, react to player reputation, and shopkeepers can call ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Everstone Studios' free-to-play action-adventure-RPG Where Winds Meet is a game that gives over many of its NPC conversations to chatbots. But these ...

Everstone Studio can create such an expansive world and give it away to players for free, look at where the money's coming from. The publishing power of NetEase is well-versed in live-service ...

Red Dead Redemption 2 has you kill a lot of people to finish its main missions, but most of them are folks messing with your sometimes loveable outlaw gang or settlers bullying a native tribe, so the ...

TL;DR: Modder Inferno Plus has recreated Morrowind's entire map within Elden Ring's engine, merging Morrowind's lore with Elden Ring's combat. The project, called Morrowring, is halfway complete with ...

You can create NPCs-free zones, setting their location and size. You can create zones where a certain amount of NPCs of a customizable group spawn, the zone can be set to any location, size, and state ...

Fortnite is introducing new AI-powered NPCs capable of real-time, generative conversations Creators can customize these NPCs’ personalities and voices using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) In ...

Bash scripting is often seen as a convenient tool for automating repetitive tasks, managing simple file operations, or orchestrating basic system utilities. But beneath its surface lies a trove of ...

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 ...

Long before generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini started dominating the tech world, gamers had been interacting with AI companions and opponents for decades. Non-player characters ...

After 900 hours, three custom characters, two Dark Urges, and one Shadowheart Origin Honor Mode run, I still find myself jumping back into the world of Baldur's Gate 3. Outside of enjoying the ...

Quin Callahan is a professional writer with over eight years of experience creating gaming content. In addition to games writing, he's also produced TTRPG content for a variety of tabletop publishers.