Cloud-based AI features for games sound great until you get hit with high latency and unpredictable server bills. To fix this ...

In general, calling someone an “NPC” is a way to tell a person that they lack original thinking skills, or more simply, that their opinion doesn't matter to you—but the term didn't start out that way.

Path to Menzoberranzan is described as the biggest and most ambitious Baldur’s Gate 3 mod in development right now. It’s set to be a fully voiced three-act custom campaign, and it began development ...

Perusing the Nexus mod page for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim is like going down a rabbit hole. Thousands of mods added over the course of ten years are available to make Skyrim an even better game than ...

If you missed the initial video, which blew up on social media sites like Reddit and X, here's what kicked everything off. In it, Twitch streamer Blurbs headshots an NPC, only for the game to suddenly ...

We’ve talked plenty about modders on our website over the years, and for good reasons. Modders, depending on how you look at them, are very much an “extension” of the game dev team that helps make the ...

Ever wanted to be the king of your own Minecraft civilization? In this hilarious video, we explore a mod that lets you command NPCs to build your kingdom—but it’s not as easy as it sounds! Watch the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a recent stream on Twitch, where he goes by @leaksworld_ , a fan asked Ambersley if he's not doing NPC streams anymore. "No, I ...

A hot potato: Large language models and generative AI are topics that most video game developers would rather avoid. As tempting as using these tools is to replace human labor, the negative blowback ...

New tools can make for seemingly endless conversations with your favorite NPCs. New tools can make for seemingly endless conversations with your favorite NPCs. In Stardew Valley, you can usually only ...