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 ...

To Darth Vader, though, Luke was the most important adversary the Empire faced. Although this is true to an extent, given Luke's status as one of the only active Jedi in the galaxy at that time ...

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.

As for Disney and Epic Games, the AI-powered Darth Vader in "Fortnite" is just the beginning of what will likely be significant gaming advancements, all the result of artificial intelligence.

The first day of Darth Vader’s appearance in Fortnite was chaotic. Players made him say things he wasn’t supposed to say, which is why Epic released a quick patch to fix him.

Players break Darth Vader AI's voice in Fortnite by tricking him into looping voice lines. The post was shared by @ehebai on X and has gained over a million views and 40,000 likes in a few days.

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 ...

Epic Games has added a new version of Darth Vader to Fortnite, one which speaks with the AI-recreated voice of James Earl Jones, and which players can have conversations with. It’s going ...

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 ...

In May, Epic added a Darth Vader NPC to Fortnite that could speak to players using an AI-powered version of James Earl Jones’ voice. Jones’ estate approved of the use of his voice.

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 ...