Fortnite’s Darth Vader imitates the iconic voice of James Earl Jones, who voiced him in the Star Wars films. This technology was also used to recreate Jones’ voice in the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV show.

Today’s Fortnite update brought something unexpected to the game’s Star Wars season. Specifically, players can now engage with a Darth Vader AI Chatbot. Players can talk to Darth Vader during ...

In the week since Epic Games, the maker of " Fortnite," introduced its AI-powered Darth Vader to the game, it has come to symbolize all that is exciting and risky about the rapid advancements in ...

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.

Right now, the AI Darth Vader only speaks English, and Epic Games says they used a combination of Google Gemini 2.0 Flash and ElevenLabs' Flash v2.5 AI models. You can check out the AI Darth Vader ...

Jump ahead to 1:51 and you can see Fortnite ’s Saxs Persson announcing that in Q4 of this year, Epic intends to make AI-powered NPCs something players can create for themselves in their own UEFN ...

The addition of Darth Vader in Fortnite has been quite controversial so far. Epic Games added the iconic Star Wars character with the latest update, allowing players to talk to him.

Darth Vader has arrived in Fortnite, and your AI buddy has a death grip on all manner of cool and strange features, including the ability to serenade you (provided you only expect him to sing Star ...

Other Fortnite players are trying the Bart Simpson prank call approach, tricking Vader into saying things like “this Dixie Normus, you say,” which… well, you know what that sounds like.

Such vulgarity does not become you, Padme," Darth Vader replied. Obviously, the moment went super viral, super quick, with Epic Games responding on Twitter that a hotfix was indeed in place ...