We’re excited to introduce a new IGN content experiment to you today: the IGN Guides Chatbot Alpha. This AI-powered chat experience is trained on the guides and tips content written by dozens of IGN guide writers and contributors based on their own playthroughs.
We are currently testing this in our The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom guide. If you’re signed in to your IGN account, you’ll be able to ask questions about the game via the chat window at the bottom of the Guides page and it will use the knowledge contained in the IGN Guide coupled with natural language processing to provide an answer to your specific question.
Since this is an Alpha release experiment, please help out by rating the quality of the answers provided. Note that the chat window will only appear at the bottom of our guide pages if you’re logged in with an IGN account.
We envision this guides feature to act as a comprehensive search solution for those seeking fast answers to a tricky problem, providing solutions immediately and conveniently without having to look at multiple pages. Of course, we also still offer standard keyword search and detailed navigation tools if you want to follow a step-by-step walkthrough, get visual aids via screenshots, or access complete tip sheets instead.
This Alpha chatbot experience joins a number of game help-oriented features our editorial, product, and engineering teams have added to IGN over the years. Millions have used our interactive maps and checklist tools, and we’re excited to evolve our guides and add more features that utilize and complement our editorially-written content.
During this initial Alpha, the Chatbot is only available for our The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom guide. This free tool, is open to all visitors of IGN for a limited time – and you can try it out here. In the near future, we will move the Chatbot behind IGN log in to ensure that the AI-powered experience is learning from IGN’s most avid gamers. Our Guides team will utilize the interactions to further improve our guides and try to provide the best answers to your most burning questions.
Since launching IGN Guides in 1999, we have heard from many fans that they first discovered IGN when searching for cheats or a walkthrough. We’re proud to continue this tradition.
Thank you for your support!
Peer Schneider (@PeerIGN on Twitter) is one of IGN Entertainment’s founders.
