Player Combat' drops six autonomous AI characters into a deadly simulation, blending battle royale chaos with unscripted survival.

When stepping into a solo experience, one of the best parts of any single-player game is the creation of a unique character that fits the player's personality, aesthetic or emulates a character from ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

The Benchmark’s purpose is to mainly test the player’s computer to make sure it is up to par for the new PC requirements for the expansion. But it also gives players a glimpse of what’s to come. If ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has turned his focus to his lifelong passion of gaming. He lived and worked in South Korea ...

Director and Producer Naoki Yoshida said that following Final Fantasy XIV player character models and faces feedback, various avatar fixes will come in the 7.1 patch. He shared a list of major, ...

It is increasingly common in online communities to jokingly or insultingly refer to others as automated characters, like those in video games. This is a flawed and overly simplistic representation of ...

I tripped over the term NPC, quite literally, on my way to an event the other night. Rushing to get there, I fell right in front of the venue. Embarrassed by how many people had just watched me eat ...

Rather than keep rolling death saves until they reach three successes or three failures, if a player has a single death save ...

All video game adaptations inevitably face the same issue of how to compensate for a lack of gameplay. Making the jump from an interactive medium to a more passive one means finding ways to fill in ...

In a medium that still struggles to give women the spotlight, Pokémonis a JRPG franchise that understands how to appeal to all kinds. Pikachu was chosen as the anime's first mascot because it appealed ...

In Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, the matter of history takes a front seat. Our protagonist is centuries old, and while they may change things up to survive, adapt, and keep pace with the ...