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Since 1987, players could explore ever-new dungeons in “NetHack”. Almost 40 years later, there is now a major update for the ...

The game’s developers have kept it alive since its 1987 debut, and in 2015 delivered a major upgrade in the form of version 3 ...

Decades on, the pioneering roguelike continues to get updates.

According to Ethan Mollick on X, Claude with Computer Use autonomously downloaded the NetHack codebase, read documentation, and began implementing a new horror-inspired creature by modifying source ...

According to Ethan Mollick on X (Twitter), OpenAI's Codex autonomously downloaded NetHack, modified game items to increase player power, and produced a working Windows .exe, overcoming environment and ...

NetHack is a fork of the 1984 game Hack. This version was first released in 1987, but the developers made NetHack open source, making it easy to get your hands on. That said, NetHack is, unlike most ...

Our memory has grown a bit hazy lately with the glut of cookie-cutter, loot-based RPGs that have carved a wide swathe across the gaming landscape. For many, Diablo is the earliest incarnation of the ...

Peter Morics is a list writer from the United States. He has been writing about video games for five years. He started out as a news writer, covering some of the biggest moments in the industry, but ...

NetHack is a one-of-a-kind gaming experience that has stood the test of time. This ASCII-based dungeon crawler combines depth, creativity, and challenge, making it a must-play for anyone who loves ...

Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown great success as high-level planners for zero-shot game-playing agents However, these agents are primarily evaluated on games where long-term planning ...