A major update to Skyrim’s Mantella AI mod and Roblox’s second Creator Showdown tournament showcase how sandbox games are evolving through AI innovation and community-led events. Mantella’s ...

Researchers at Portugal's Universidade de Lisboa and North Carolina State University have developed a tool and a mod that makes NPC interactions in The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim a little more like those ...

For me, it's the dumber the Skyrim mod, the better. That's not to say silly changes can't completely overhaul the Bethesda RPG game and make it feel fresh - I love seeing what the community does to ...

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If you've always wanted the NPCs of Skyrim to be smarter, one of the best modders in the community is back with exactly what you asked for. While it's often all too easy to snipe NPCs with a bow or ...

AI mods are paving the way for a much more dynamic gaming experience. Modders have been striving to make their worlds more interactive and realistic, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been the key ...

The long-running Skyrim AI mod Mantella has received a significant update, enhancing NPC awareness, memory, and interaction capabilities. Version 0.14 introduces advanced actions, group conversations, ...

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If you play The Elder Scrolls V: Skryim long enough, you'll inevitably run into repetitive dialogue, such as every guard with a sob story about having taken an arrow to the knee. Beyond that, however, ...

"Skyrim" has undergone dozens of transformations since it was first released for consoles and PC in 2011. Since then, it has been heavily ported and modded, and to this day, dedicated mod-smiths are ...

The Elder Scrolls I didn't even know I was bothered by how bad Skyrim's NPCs look during the split second they're opening doors, and now a modder's pointed it out the mod to fix it has become ...

A new Skyrim roleplay server has replaced all the NPCs in the game with real players, in one of the most ambitious mods for ...