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Replica Studios brings AI-powered Smart NPCs to Unreal Engine 5

Replica Studios has announced its AI-powered Smart NPCs; a plugin coming to Unreal Engine 4 and 5 later this year. Smart NPCs are powered by OpenAI or the user’s own AI language model, and Replica’s ...
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Oblivion Unreal Engine 5 Fan Remake Now Has Horses & NPCs

Greg Coulthard has released a new version of his fan remake of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion in Unreal Engine 5. This new version has horses that players can ride, as well as NPCs/characters that ...
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Build On-Device AI Companions with the NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK and Unreal Engine 5 Plugins

NVIDIA is expanding its Unreal Engine 5 stack beyond rendering into local AI character workflows. The new ACE Game Agent SDK beta is a lightweight C/C++ framework for building agentic NPCs, while the ...
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Oblivion Returns and AI Is Flexing Its Restoration Skills

Radiant AI was introduced in The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) as a system enabling NPCs to make autonomous choices and follow daily routines, rather than just scripted patterns. Each NPC had ...