Like the throats of Darth Vader's commanding officers, box office records have been crushed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens. At the heart of the first Star Wars movie was the famous showdown ...

An AI-powered version of Darth Vader was added to Fortnite and its Star Wars-themed season late last month. The NPC, complete with a Google-developed AI model trained on voice clips recorded by ...

A Japan-exclusive Nike Air Max Plus draws strong Darth Vader comparisons ahead of its Holiday 2025 global release. My goodness, the shoe world seems to have the collaboration game in a chokehold.

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. AI Darth Vader was a huge hit in Fortnite, and now Epic plans to ...

Fortnite’s AI-powered Darth Vader shenanigans were just a test; Epic Games will soon allow Fortnite creators to craft their own chatbot-esque NPC for the battle royale game.

The Darth Vader Mask David Prowse as Darth Vader, Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia – Credit: 20th Century Fox. The most obvious, and inevitable choice is still a correct one for this list. Darth Vader’s ...

In a galaxy not so far away, Fortnite’s most recent update released an AI-powered Darth Vader NPC, sparking a social media firestorm. Introduced on May 16, 2025, this conversational Sith Lord ...

This reminder is offered to the armed men in the black masks roving the streets now in the land of “ liberty and justice for all.” And, who are these people under the black masks? Will we pull off the ...

The Darth Vader Fortnite AI is an interactive chatbot and potential NPC teammate introduced to the game on May 16, 2025. Darth Vader is a Battle Royale boss, and players must defeat and recruit him ...

Born on Aug. 1, 1941, in Los Angeles, Michael Arthur Ledeen came of age in a world shadowed by totalitarianism.His academic journey began at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where, under the ...