Square Enix Integrates Google Gemini Into Dragon Quest 10, Shipping AI NPCs at Scale
One of Japan's largest game publishers is using Gemini to power natural-language NPC conversations in a flagship franchise — a real deployment, not a tech demo.
Square Enix is integrating Google's Gemini model into Dragon Quest 10 to enable natural AI-driven conversations with in-game characters, according to a report from Nikkei. This is not a research prototype or a GDC demo — it's a shipping feature in one of Japan's most beloved RPG franchises, making it one of the highest-profile deployments of LLM-powered NPCs to date.
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