IEEE

Open-Ended NPC Dialogue Favors Casual Players: A Pilot Comparison of Three LLM-Driven Dialogue Systems

Abstract: Non-player character (NPC) dialogue plays a crucial role in shaping the player experience in narrativedriven video games, influencing agency, immersion and story engagement. Despite the ...
GamesRadar+

Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says generative AI "sounds crap," and any studio using it for dialogue should pay actors to re-record lines: "You've got the money now"

Neil Newbon, the actor behind loveable vampire Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3, has some advice for studios who've made big bucks off of games that use generative AI to perform voice lines: go back and do ...
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How daycare tycoons scale NPC behavior in Roblox

GamingWithKev builds and strategizes a max level Daycare Tycoon in Roblox. Suspected Brown University gunman found dead House Democrat hits Trump with nothing but receipts over his 'phenomenal' health ...
GameSpot

Roblox System Requirements

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world, with millions of different experiences that players can hop into. One of the biggest selling points ...
KSAT

Roblox adding new age-verification system after lawsuits involving child exploitation, assault

SAN ANTONIO – Roblox, a popular social gaming platform containing millions of user-created games, has reported around 40% of its 84 million users are under 13 years old. Many families play together ...
Polygon

Roblox's selfie verification is a preview of an annoying internet future

Roblox is in a tight spot. After years of reports involving child predators on Roblox, the company faces pressure from the public and government to clean up its platform. The company's solution, ...
The Hill

Roblox steps up age checks, will group younger users into age-based chats

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...
WGHP

Roblox adds layers to age verification system

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...
PC Gamer

Wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet is full of AI chatbot NPCs, and people are doing all the standard obscene stuff to them: 'I made him think that my character was pregnant with his child'

Where Winds Meet, the wuxia-themed soulslite multiplayer ARPG, is more than a little popular with around 190,000 concurrent players on Steam as I write this. It's also got more than a little of ...
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Fallout 4's cinematic dialogue system failed to shine despite Bethesda spending "forever" working on it says Todd Howard: "It really did not resonate"

Fallout 4 director and Bethesda big dog Todd Howard says that he still loves the game's cinematic dialogue system even if players don't. When asked about the best game he's worked on in an interview ...
Polygon

Everyone in Pokémon Legends: Z-A's Lumiose City is having a (hilarious) breakdown

Trainers have finally been able to dive into Pokémon Legends: Z-A over the weekend, beginning to unravel the mysteries behind Lumiose City's rogue Mega evolutions. However, many players have been left ...