Once you begin rebuilding the Town of Wishvale, you gain the ability to invite NPCs to your town where they become residents.

If you played Animal Crossing: New Leaf on the Nintendo 3DS, then you probably have some very fond memories of the island and ...

Now that Visionary Realms has laid out its ambitious plans to get most of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s systems “launch ready” with a massive spring 2026 update, today, they’re sharing more details ...

In Where Winds Meet, increasing vitality is an important step when improving your character, but one that is not determined by your experience in battles. Instead, you must listen carefully and ...

Everstone Studio can create such an expansive world and give it away to players for free, look at where the money's coming from. The publishing power of NetEase is well-versed in live-service ...

I've had a great time with The Outer Worlds 2, with the exception of one small detail: The game's maps absolutely suck. Now, for the most part, things function okay. The minimap is fine, and its ...

The platform blends small language models and reinforcement learning to create human-like behaviour. Backers include Patron, Y Combinator, Accel, Boost VC, and angels from Coinbase, DeepMind, and ...

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 ...

Editor's take: Game developers are actively promoting AI and large language models as the next big leap for the industry. Despite ambitious visions of fully automated characters and self-generating ...

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 ...

Hopefully, the AI NPCs don’t swear. Hopefully, the AI NPCs don’t swear. is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Epic ...

In a nutshell: Bethesda has remained mostly radio silent regarding The Elder Scrolls 6 development since announcing the project in 2018. The silence ended on Monday when the studio revealed it would ...