The Star Wars season has been a big hit this May, with many Fortnite fans returning to try the new weapons and collect crossover skins from the battle pass. That's not where the fun stops, though, as ...

Epic Games added an AI-powered Darth Vader to "Fortnite" this month. Players interact with the character, which uses conversational AI based on James Earl Jones' voice. "Fortnite" Darth Vader ...

As part of both Fortnite's current Star Wars-themed season and the larger tech industry push to crowbar AI into anything and everything with even the most niche possible use case, a new manmade horror ...

UPDATE (16/05/25, 5:20 PM BST): Kotaku's Ethan Gach reports that Epic Games has already pushed an update to try and stop people being able to make AI Vader say the F word. "We pushed a hot fix within ...

Well, this was bound to happen. Fortnite is in the middle of a chapter with Star Wars characters and weapons, which has been fun. But now the Epic game has added a twist: you can actually talk to ...

If there’s one thing we can all agree on, it’s that James Earl Jones had a magnificent voice. And James Earl Jones’ Darth Vader voice is one of the most magnificent of all. That voice will ALWAYS be ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Two years before Jones passed away in 2024, he retired as the voice of Darth Vader and signed a deal that allows an AI program to recreate his iconic ...

Did Epic Games cross the line with its AI-powered Darth Vader companion that uses James Earl Jones voice? Gamers are currently debating. The iconic actor James Earl Jones passed away last year, but ...

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Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and becoming the first studio to license its characters to Sora — giving fans a way ...