A group of former Google DeepMind researchers has created an AI behavior engine that aims to transform traditional video games into a more dynamic experience by improving how non-playable characters ...

Sony has unveiled a new patent for a design that may help NPCs in games to react more vividly to the actions and events around them. This is just the latest of many proposed patents created by Sony, ...

A strange TikTok trend, where users livestream themselves acting like an “NPC”—or an automated “non-player character” with pre-written dialogue—complete with nonsensical phrases like “ice cream so ...