Skyrim has a lot of things going for it, even now these eight years after it first came out. But its combat animations have never been particularly inspiring. Plenty of modders have put their skills ...

Dark Souls-like weapon animation mods make combat much more enjoyable and fluid in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Image via Bethesda Softworks, FromSoftware) Only a few open-world fantasy role-playing ...

Some of the best Skyrim mods about are those that put a different spin on the RPG game's combat. Fans have made Skyrim's combat Sekiro-like, more like The Witcher and Dark Souls, and - heck! - even ...

Skyrim supports hundreds of thousands of fan-made mods that overhaul the engine, add new enemies, and more.

The best Skyrim Special Edition mods exist thanks to the resilience of this 2016 remaster. What made it an essential upgrade is that the 64-bit version remains stable even under a heavy mod load.

A new Skyrim podcast, video and developer diary delve into the improvements to Bethesda's animations, for The Elder Scrolls fans hungry for Skyrim fact nuggets in the run-up to its launch on Friday.