The term NPC, or non-playable character, blew up on TikTok last summer as streamers went live on the app and acted like robots with canned responses to stimuli. But NPCs, and NPC memes, have been ...

Once you get seriously into gaming (you know, somewhere in between the Henry Caville-level but not full Elon), you will quickly notice there are two types of characters. Playable characters, usually ...

I get distracted easily. Really easily, in fact. So it’ll come as no surprise that I spent a good ten minutes stalking NPCs in Frogware’s The Sinking City, a detective game set in a flooded town named ...

Are you an “NPC”? Check with your teen! The acronym stands for “non-player character,” which in video game culture, is a figure not controlled by a player. Like a background character or one that is ...