A single prompt in World of Warcraft Midnight has players discussing the best (and worst) uses for its NPC party members

Thanks to the destructive tendencies of its NPC allies, World of Warcraft players might prefer to play the long-running MMO ...
The Desert Sun

Who you calling ‘NPC’? How the gaming term ‘non-player character’ has become an insult

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 ...
Inverse

How a universal game design concept became an alt-right insult

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 ...
The Daily Dot

NPC memes reveal that everyone just might be a background character

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 ...