“Who cares what they think?” NPC, the acronym for “non-player character,” is a gamer concept that’s been around for 50 years ...

With the social media platform TikTok’s future hanging in political limbo, many creators on the app are worried about what ...

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 ...

Other additions in the dictionary’s quarterly update include ‘non-player character’, ‘cheat code’, ‘snark’ and ‘three-dimensional chess’.