Elon Musk Explains What He Dislikes About GTA NPCs — Will GTA 6 Fix It?

Elon Musk has finally broken his silence on why he can't bring himself to play GTA, citing a specific moral hurdle that stops ...
Game Rant

Open-World Games With Extremely Hostile NPCs

Ritwik is a passionate gamer who has a soft spot for JRPGs. He's been writing about all things gaming for six years and counting. Open-world gaming is something that players can't get enough of, with ...
Game Rant

Every Major City In Skyrim & How Many NPCs Live There

Anastasia Maillot is an Evergreen Editor based in Finland working for Game Rant, where she combines her passion for fiction writing and video games. Although she's not limited to a specific genre of ...
PC Gamer

Which game has the best NPCs?

It took a while, but the adamantly NPC-less Fallout 76 eventually added AI-controlled human characters to the mix with the Wastelanders expansion. They're everywhere now—living in previously empty ...

I've played every Fallout game, and these are the best Fallout NPCs I want to see in the Amazon show

RPGs Obsidian hopes to stand alongside CD Projekt and Larian by making "best-in-class" reactive RPGs, says The Outer Worlds 2 director: "I don't know if we're there yet, but I'd love to get there" ...
Polygon

I've seen the AI gaming future. It's so much weirder than you can imagine

I’m sitting in a digital cafe booth with a chatty robot when I agree to be a guest on her podcast. Microphones spring up in front of us, and the video game NPC across from me launches into an intro ...
Engadget

Meta is bringing AI-powered NPCs to the metaverse

Meta is allowing developers to create LLM-powered NPCs for Horizon Worlds. (Meta) Developers building for Meta’s metaverse platform will soon be able to create AI-powered NPCs for Horizon Worlds. The ...
vg247

There will be over 1,000 Cyberpunk 2077 NPCs with daily routines

There will be over 1,000 Cyberpunk 2077 NPCs with hand-built daily routines in CD Projekt Red's upcoming blockbuster. Confirmation comes from German website GameStar, which recently hosted a range of ...
PCGamesN

Project Zomboid's next big addition will be NPCs

Since the release of its massive Update 41, Early Access zombie game Project Zomboid has blown up into a genuine hit, almost a decade after it first launched. Its developers, The Indie Stone, aren't ...
GamesRadar+

After hours of Skyrim NPCs blurting out NSFW dialogue courtesy of his Twitch chat, streamer concludes "this entire thing was a mistake"

After giving his Twitch viewers the unfathomable power of being able to make Skyrim NPCs say whatever they want using a purpose-built mod, streamer and ex-software engineer Blurbs has concluded that ...
IGN

Nexus NPCs

Possibly the most important of the NPCs, the Maiden in Black allows you to level up using your Souls. Leveling up only becomes available once you have defeated the Phalanx boss in the Boletarian ...