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Watch Dogs Legion lead says Ubisoft probably would have looked into AI-powered NPCs if the tech was more advanced – "depending on what the cultural climate was"
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AI’s been creeping into game development in recent years through various means. Beyond gen-AI assets appearing in the likes of…
This new Skyrim mod is unashamedly vibe-coded, but it lets you swing NPCs into each other with ragdoll physics, so we all win
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If there’s one thing I can’t get enough of, it’s ragdoll physics in video games. While their inclusion can ruin…
Meet the dev who quit Rockstar Games during GTA 6 fever to make his own game, a single-player MMO-like where you tank for NPCs
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Solo indie developer Oren Koren got into game development about six years ago, smack in the middle of the COVID…
New Skyrim mod turns Bethesda's RPG into the "ultimate" MMO I've always wanted by transforming NPCs into real players
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Of all the various ways to enjoy Skyrim out there, from a heavily modded PC experience to one on the…
Crimson Desert fan spends days watching NPCs build a statue in real time like a Red Dead Redemption 2 fan watching clothes dry, Kingdom Come: Deliverance boss says "this is absolutely insane"
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There are fine details, then there’s this. If you stand around after completing the mission to get the wolf statue…
Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 players have already killed more NPCs than there were people on Earth in the real 15th century
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Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 turns one year old today (they grow up so fast), and Warhorse has shared some startling…
Judas lets you "truly inhabit a character" in a way BioShock didn't, and Ken Levine says the game "spent 5 years in just R&D" to make sure NPCs respond to every choice
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We’ve been waiting a long, long time to see what’s next from Ken Levine – best known as the lead…
It took Bethesda "several months" to get Fallout 3's Liberty Prime to do what he's told and stop fighting random NPCs: "It's all we're asking you to do, sir"
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The mighty Liberty Prime stomps through both Fallout 3 and 4 at particular intervals, causing absolute chaos, as giant robots…
Fable's open world contains over 1,000 NPCs, much to the horror of the RPG's art team who had to make a bed for each one of them: "They need what now?"
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The upcoming Fable reboot is approaching the original trilogy’s whacky life sim elements in an interesting way. Developer Playground Games…
Fable will let me romance nearly all of its 1000 NPCs "with a very few exceptions," lead says, and I can't wait to be a hero-turned-divorcee with two kids after orchestrating a turbulent love triangle
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Fable is about to bring us into an open-world version of Albion that’s home to a living population of over…