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New AI Demo Shows Why Games Writing Should Be Left To People
18.3.2024
NVIDIA and Convai have released a trailer for their AI demo, Project Neural Nexus, and it predictably looks and sounds like shit.Read more
AI Video Game Characters Seem As Soulless As You'd Expect
19.1.2024
Think of your favorite video game character. Picture them in your head, remember their stories and the actors’ performances that made them stick with you long after you put the controller down. Maybe you’re thinking of Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3, whose actor Neil Newbon recently won the Best...
New Prince Of Persia Game Has A Wild NPC Oopsie
12.1.2024
Reviews for Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown are popping up ahead of the game’s official launch on January 18. With 14 hours under my belt, I can tell you that it’s great, as evidenced by the myriad positive scores on aggregators Metacritic and OpenCritic. But during previews something puzzling...
Grand Theft Auto 6’s NPCs Look More Lifelike Than Ever
5.12.2023
Grand Theft Auto VI’s big first-look trailer is hitting me with some deja vu. Back when Metal Gear Solid Ground Zeroes dropped its first trailer, my brain had to do a double take as the animations and lighting made me think I was looking at live action for a split second. GTA 6 is doing the same...
Videoherní genocida. Hráč se pokusil zabít všechny živé tvory ve Skyrimu
2.12.2023
I po více než deseti letech od svého vydání láká skvělé RPG The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim své fanoušky k novým výzvám. Ovšem velmi neobvyklým. Jeden z nich se například rozhodl vyhladit všechny živé tvory v rozsáhlém světě hry. A uspěl
Kazakhstan’s NPC Officially Rolls Out State-backed CBDC in Partnership With Visa and Mastercard
15.11.2023
Source: Iliya Mitskavets/Adobe Central-Asia Country Kazakhstan has officially launched the digital tenge project, a central bank digital currency (CBDC) designed to simplify payments and drive economic growth. According to a local news outlet report on November 15, Binur Zhalenov, CEO of...
Baldur’s Gate 3 Director Explains Why Every Single NPC Was Mo-Capped
29.8.2023
Larian Studios’ Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game Baldur’s Gate 3 wouldn’t be what it is without nearly hundreds of actors’ diligent motion capture performances, mo-cap director Aliona Baranova explained in an August 25 Twitter thread.Read more
Grand Theft Auto V AI NPC Mod Nuked From Internet
17.8.2023
In case you thought Rockstar Games’ acquisition of Grand Theft Auto V creator group Cfx.re meant a brave new era for open modding in the hit open-world game, don’t worry, publisher Take-Two is still going after fan projects it doesn’t like. Case in point is its recent sacking of a mod called...
You Definitely Want To Recruit Baldur's Gate 3's Resident Crypt Keeper
15.8.2023
Don’t you hate it when people die? Well the good thing about living in Faerûn is that you can bring folks back, you just need to know the right people. Withers, Baldur’s Gate 3 very own crypt keeper, can not only recover fallen allies, but help you rebuild your character (though not change their...
Fortnite: Chapter 4 Season 3 Week 3 Quests And NPC Locations
22.6.2023
We’re three weeks into Fortnite’s latest season and hopefully you’ve been able to cross off the weekly quests without much trouble thus far. This week, however, you might’ve come across a few challenges that aren’t as familiar, including one involving one of the new mechanics: Mud. Insert joke...
In Sons Of The Forest, Everybody Loves Kelvin
28.2.2023
Where Skyrim had Lydia, the latest big Steam survival hit—Sons of the Forest—has Kelvin. He’s there to help, no matter how much his ears bleed, and people absolutely love the adorable, lobotomized handyman.Read more
I Met The Most Annoying Yakuza NPC In Like A Dragon: Ishin!
27.2.2023
We’ve all been there. You initiate a conversation with some NPC off the side of the road. Suddenly, you’re trapped in the world’s longest and most non-skippable conversation. Your fingers hurt as you mash the buttons really hard. Your eyes glaze over as the other person goes on and on and on....
Four Features That I Must Insist Every Game Includes
6.12.2022
I’ve played a lot of games in my lifetimes. I say ‘lifetimes’ because I have lived many different lives, all of which have been incredibly uneventful and have mostly revolved around playing different games.Read more
Kratos Finally Admits He Was A Dick To God Of War’s Long-Suffering NPC
9.11.2022
In the new God of War games, Kratos is more mature and less angry. But before he was the Dad of War, he was a big asshole willing to kill anyone or let people die—often in horrible ways—if it meant he could continue his quest. And one poor soul, a nameless boat captain, encountered the terrible...
TikTok’s Ugly ‘NPC In Real Life’ Trend Reflects The Worst Side Of Growing Up Online
23.9.2022
I’ve been seeing these videos for at least a year, what I’d call the “NPC in real life” trend on TikTok, which involve harassing, embarrassing, or frightening people in public. Harassment is a staple of online life, something I placidly accept from YouTube “prank” channels, niche celebrity drama...
Genshin Impact Shakes Up The JRPG Formula With Its NPCs
2.9.2022
It’s a joke among weebs that you can always tell who’s the main character of an anime. You look for the teenager with the most vibrantly colored hair, or the impractical clothes. The young heiress Dunyarzad, a newly introduced NPC in Genshin Impact, hardly fits the bill, so I didn’t think much...
Unreleased Indie Horror Game Returns 10 Years After Its Debut
10.6.2022
Ten years is a long time in any business, but it’s an eternity in video games, where technology and design is always evolving, and always at the fastest pace imaginable. So it’s both incredible and absolutely wonderful today that we get to slow things down a little and revisit a game that I first...
Why Elden Ring's Torrent Keeps Getting You Killed
12.4.2022
Torrent, the magic horse-goat that lets you get around Elden Ring’s world at cruising speeds, is one of the highlights of the game, but that’s not to say they’re perfect.Read more
Breath Of The Wild Actually Has Four Beedles, And You Can Get Them All Together
28.3.2022
Beedle, the friendly travelling merchant from The Legend Of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, sure does get around, managing to cover almost every corner of the map during your adventures. Turns out he’s got a secret to his breadth of coverage: there are more than one of them.Read more
Elden Ring’s First Big Patch Adds More Secrets, Quests and People To An Already Massive Game
17.3.2022
Elden Ring was just updated to v1.03, and while that humble number may not suggest anything noteworthy, the game has actually quietly gone and added (and fixed) some pretty important stuff.Read more