The customer isn’t always right in these NPCs’ playbook – especially if you shoot them in the face in Fortnite.

Epic Games is known to ban players in Fortnite for a host of reasons, be it for using hacks, cheats, or even the recent wave of IP bans over account sharing.

Put simply, it’s the answer to all those constraining and repetitive non-playable character (NPC) dialogue trees — simply a bunch of pre-packaged AI models (called NIMs) that can be run on the GPU to ...

The silence ended on Monday when the studio revealed it would be developing an NPC based on the winner of an auction to benefit charity. In a partnership with the Make-A-Wish Foundation ...