The acronym "NPC" refers to non-player characters, an important aspect of most video games. An NPC is any character not controlled by either the player or an AI, and can be an important character, or ...
An increasing number of TikTok creators are livestreaming themselves as ‘non-playable characters’. Some are making money off the unconventional phenomenon. If you click on the TikTok feed of Fedha ...
TikTok creator “Pinkydoll” recently blew up on Twitter after clips of her seemingly random catchphrases and cartoonish movements baffled commentators; Twitter had uncovered the weird world of TikTok ...
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 ...
In late 2018, just weeks before the U.S. midterm election, a term any gamer would recognize began to bubble up into political conversation. NPC (short for non-player character) became the alt-right ...
This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the conversation by following or subscribing to the show on the NYT Audio App, Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, ...
Over more than four decades, the man who built the world’s premier amateur bodybuilding federation subverted the group’s nonprofit mission by establishing a parallel for-profit company that took over ...
NPC is a weekly podcast about the games we take with us and the handhelds we use to play them. Every other Tuesday, Federico Viticci, John Voorhees, and Brendon Bigley cover the latest portable gaming ...