Sq. Enix has introduced it’s partnering with Google so as to add an AI chat bot character to its Dragon Quest MMO.
Introduced throughout a press occasion this weekend, Dragon Quest X will use Google’s Gemini to energy a “conversational AI” companion known as Chatty Slimey, who will assist information misplaced gamers.
Chatting with Japanese publication Sankei, head of growth, Takashi Anzai, mentioned: “New gamers gained’t really feel lonely questioning the place to begin taking part in; it’ll develop into their very own private companion.”
The publication mentioned: “When a participant talks to Slimey utilizing the chat perform, it routinely generates voices and engages in dialog. The AI additionally analyzes info from the sport display, and Slimey could even provoke conversations when a strong enemy is defeated or a uncommon merchandise is obtained.”
Dragon Quest X is a Japan-only MMO that was launched in 2012 for PC and PS4, adopted later by Nintendo Swap.
It’s not the primary time an MMO has added an AI chat bot: Wuxia’s The place Winds Meet options the know-how, and has resulted in obscene manipulation from some gamers. Fortnite confronted comparable challenges when it added a Darth Vader chat bot, which was rapidly reported to be saying swear phrases and slurs to gamers.
Sq. Enix mentioned in its November 2025 monetary outcomes that it goals to have the vast majority of its QA and debugging work dealt with by generative AI inside the subsequent two years.
The Last Fantasy writer has launched a partnership with the Matsuo-Iwasawa Laboratory on the College of Tokyo which is “geared toward bettering the effectivity of sport growth processes by way of AI applied sciences”.
