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NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK Beta Brings AI Companions to Unreal Engine

Simon Ellis 1 min read

NVIDIA releases the ACE Game Agent SDK Beta at Unreal Fest 2026, allowing developers to add AI teammates to Unreal Engine games running on RTX GPUs.

NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK Beta Brings AI Companions to Unreal Engine
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released a beta version of its ACE Game Agent SDK at Unreal Fest 2026. The update gives developers tools to add artificial intelligence teammates directly into games built with Unreal Engine.

NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK Beta announcement at Unreal Fest 2026
NVIDIA ACE Game Agent SDK Beta announcement at Unreal Fest 2026

New software package enables interactive characters on mid-range graphics cards

The new software package includes plugins that connect speech recognition, small language models, and text-to-speech systems. Developers can use these components to create interactive characters that understand player input and respond with voice output.

NVIDIA designed the SDK to run on graphics cards with just 8GB of video memory. The 3060 meets this requirement, which allows mid-range hardware to handle AI companions without needing expensive upgrades.

The package contains a Qwen 3.5 4B model for decision logic and Chatterbox Turbo 350M for voice generation. NVIDIA also partnered with Epic Games to embed these tools into the MetaHuman NPC framework used in Unreal Engine projects.

Source: NVIDIA, TweakTown

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