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 ...

It's well known at this point that AI programs have a tendency to "glaze" users, agreeing with a user's perspective regardless of its legitimacy, a phenomenon that has been linked to the recent rise ...

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 ...

Ah, Half-Life 3. The mythical unicorn of gaming. The white whale for Valve fans. The punchline to a 20-year-old joke that stopped being funny about 10 years ago. And yet, every so often, a little ...

For better or worse, Fortnite will let creators make NPCs that ditch the script and go freestyle. A new tool in the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) will allow developers to create their own ...

Shubham is an India-based freelance list writer for DualShockers with an intense passion for the abstract nature of gaming. While he can be an unreliable narrator when talking about himself, he has ...

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 ...

While fans eagerly anticipate Grand Theft Auto 6, players are still getting plenty of mileage out of the game’s predecessor. Rockstar is continuing to provide official updates for GTA Online, and ...

It is increasingly common in online communities to jokingly or insultingly refer to others as automated characters, like those in video games. This is a flawed and overly simplistic representation of ...